Exploring the effectiveness of a specialized therapy programme for burnout using subjective report and biomarkers of stress.

The increasing prevalence of stress-related disorders such as burnout urges the need for specialized treatment approaches. Programmes combining psychotherapy and regenerative interventions emerge to be the most successful. However, evaluated therapy programmes are scarce and usually involve subjective symptom quantification without consideration of physiologic parameters.

[Bio-Psycho-Social Therapy for Stress-Induced Chronic Pain].

Bio-Psycho-Social Therapy for Stress-Induced Chronic Pain Against the background of latest neurobiological and epigenetic findings the bio-psycho-social model of disease is outlined often misinterpreted in the context of chronic pain. It represents the basic principle for a personalized treatment of stress-induced chronic pain. Consequences for diagnostic procedures are delineated to detect this pathogenetic subgroup of chronic pain patients (e.

A biological perspective on differences and similarities between burnout and depression.

To compare and contrast burnout and depression is not only a conceptual issue, but may deliver important directions for treatment approaches and stabilize the awareness of disease which is essential for affected individuals. Because of the symptomatic overlap, it is a subject of multidimensional research and discussion to find specific signatures to differentiate between the two phenomena or to present evidence that they are different aspects of the same disorder. Both pathologies are regarded as stress-related disorders.