Burnout in Social Justice and Human Rights Activists: Symptoms, Causes and Implications

Cher Weixia Chen and Paul C. Gorski, Journal of Human Rights Practice (2015)

“Although people involved in every kind of professional or volunteer work can be susceptible to vocational burnout, research suggests that social justice and human rights (SJHR) activists, whose activist work is fraught with unique challenges, can be especially susceptible to it. Building on a small but growing body of scholarship on SJHR activist burnout, this study is an attempt to gain insight into SJHR activists’ own experiences.”