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A fascinating new study examines the link between school burnout in teens and parental job burnout:
“School burnout is a chronic school-related stress syndrome that is manifested in fatigue, experiences of cynicism about school and a sense of inadequacy as a student.”
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“The results showed that experiences of burnout were shared in families. “Experiences of burnout were shared most particularly between adolescents and parents of the same gender, i.e. between daughters and mothers and between sons and fathers. The parent of the same gender seems to serve as a role model for the development of burnout,” says Professor Katariina Salmela-Aro who led the research. Read more at Shrink Rap
A model that traces behavioral issues effecting family systems is not new to those working in therapeutic boarding schools. Addiction and alcoholism are both often defined as family diseases.
A poignant question was put forward in a Telegraph article on the same subject, speculating on the potential impact of the prolonged global recession and the stress it is causing on families and young people.
