How To Overcome University Counselors’ Burnout

University counselors play important roles in ideology and politics education in universities. But, burnout is a popular problem among them. Unfortunately, existing literature lacks comprehensive understanding of this phenomena, especially of the methods to overcome it. To investigate how to decrease the level of burnout among university counselors could help university students achieve better development, keep university counselors in good state, help the ideology and politics education runs better, and support Chinese Socialist Construction. Therefore, it is of theoretical and practical importance to understand how to overcome university counselor’s burnout.Focusing on the overcoming strategies, current study adopts literature review, survey study, interview and case study methods. Specifically, taking university counselors from five universities in Shanghai as the sample, current study reveals the status and causes of burnout and goes deep into detailed overcoming strategies basing on relevant theoretical and practical evidences.The background and the meaning of current study are fully discussed. Basing on the literature review, current study points out that existing literature lacks comprehensiveness in both basic theories and overcoming strategies. Besides, current study details the symptom of three aspects of burnout:emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and diminished personal accomplishment, and their potential damages. Due to these, current study could make contributions to both literature and practices.Basing on the survey study and interview from the sample, current study makes clear the status and the causes of burnout among university counsellors. Furthermore, integrating the theoretical and practical evidences, current study proposes an intergraded model about overcoming university counsellors’burnout.According to this model, the causes could be classified into internal and external factors, with internal factors being the most influential. Correspondingly, improve internal quality and increase external support consist the strategies to overcome university counsellors’burnout. Counsellors’personal characteristics could exert great influences on this process. In detail, counsellors, universities, and the whole society should strive together toward the common goal. Specifically, counsellors should improve their competence, universities should increase their support, and the whole society should provide more support.With all the discussion above, currents study hopes to accelerate the overcoming of university counsellors’burnout.