This book offers a science-based, neurodiverse-affirming approach to burnout prevention and recovery, highlighting how personal, interpersonal, and organisational factors shape stress and wellbeing. The book reframes burnout as a neurological and situational condition rather than a personal failure, then guides readers through practical strategies grounded in neuroscience, occupational health and clinical experience. Chapters explore early identification, motivation and energy patterns, workplace design, communication, support networks and sustainable recovery. Themes such as burnout prevention, neurodiversity, workplace wellbeing, and systemic stressors are woven throughout to support readers with diverse cognitive profiles working across different workplaces. Clear tools, reflective exercises and accessible explanations make the material suitable for both specialists and non‑specialists. Broader than workplace-only guides and more inclusive than sector-specific texts, it fills key gaps in current burnout literature by integrating personal strategies with organisational and community-level solutions.

Peter Hassmén is a psychology professor at Southern Cross University in Australia. His work brings together sports and occupational psychology, mental health and wellbeing, with a strong emphasis on the relationships among emotional wellbeing, stress, overtraining syndrome, and burnout across varied populations.

Emily Hindman is a clinical neuropsychologist, a clinical psychologist, and an adjunct associate professor at Southern Cross University, Australia. Her work bridges academic research with rich clinical experience, focused on enhancing emotion regulation, executive functioning, and cognitive performance.