Burnout Syndrome - literature review

Abstract

In the past decades, researchers in different fields have studied burnout, the phenomenon (BS) characterized as an occupational disease. Considered the advanced stage of stress, the BS affects a number of professionals, especially those who work directly with people, such as teachers. The review of the literature available on the subject in Portuguese, English, and Spanish allowed the author to unify the expression of the phenomenon as "Burnout Syndrome" (BS). A careful study of this phenomenon in given teaching groups, such as Physical Education teachers, will broaden the understanding of it and will allow for the raising of meaningful questions involving teaching, and the phenomenon described in the literature. To be pointed out is that, in the literature review, the author were found across few studies of groups of teachers. More specifically, in the case of Physical Education teachers, which is the author's focus of research, few references on the subject.