Emotional burnout among representatives of “assist” professions

The features of the emotional burnout at the persons of “helping” professions due to the stage of depression are described in the article. It was set that “reduction of professional duties”, “experiencing of psychical trauma”, “inadequate emotional reacting”, “psychosomatic and vegetative disorders” were the dominant symptoms in these persons. The phases of burnout and depression on the scale of Zung had direct correlation, but the phase of “resistance” was the most meaningful. At the respondents with burnout-syndrome and moderate depression arrhythmia, cardialgia and arterial hypertension verified reliably more often that in the groups of respondents with burnout-syndrome, but without depressive disorders.