Beyond Burnout: A Biopsychosocial Framework for Recognition, Prevention, and Recovery

Friday, February 12, 2027 ♦ 12:00pm – 3:00pm (ET) Zoom Webinar

Presenter: Jay Trambadia, PsyD, ABPP

Burnout can affect mental healthcare professionals across the professional lifespan, beginning during graduate training and continuing through clinical practice, supervision, teaching, research, and leadership. Although burnout is frequently framed as an individual failure of resilience or self-care, research indicates that it develops through a dynamic interaction among biological stress responses, psychological vulnerabilities and resources, interpersonal relationships, cultural experiences, and organizational conditions. This webinar presents a biopsychosocial framework for recognizing, understanding, preventing, and addressing burnout among graduate students and psychology professionals. Participants will examine the biological consequences of prolonged stress; psychological contributors such as perfectionism, values conflict, coping patterns, and diminished control; and social and systemic contributors such as workload, supervisory relationships, institutional climate, identity-based stress, and insufficient organizational support. Attention will be given to distinguishing burnout from depression, compassion fatigue, and stress.

Through polls, case examples, guided self-reflection, small-group exercises, and action planning, participants will practice identifying burnout presentations and selecting interventions at the individual, relational, and organizational levels. Cultural and individual diversity will be integrated throughout the program. The presentation connects psychological science with clinical practice and graduate education, preparing psychologists and trainees to recognize burnout-related impairment, support ethical professional functioning, and develop sustainable, evidence-based approaches to well-being.

Level of Curriculum Content: Intermediate

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Jay Trambadia, Psy.D. is a licensed, board-certified clinical psychologist based in Atlanta, GA. His work spans clinical health psychology, consultation, teaching, and organizational wellness, with an emphasis on behavior change, stress management, burnout, and professional effectiveness. He practices as a health psychologist within a large healthcare system, helping patients address lifestyle and biopsychosocial concerns related to nutrition, exercise, sleep, pain, and substance use. He leads a Clinical Health Psychology Forum that supports continuing education, case consultation, and psychologists pursuing board certification. He also developed a psychology department providing consultation-liaison services for patients and providers within a large hospital cancer center.

Dr. Trambadia earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Georgia and his doctorate in clinical psychology from Nova Southeastern University. He completed a fellowship at Duke University Medical Center, where his training focused on pain management, palliative care, and biofeedback, alongside teaching, consultation, and supervision in clinical health psychology. In addition to his clinical work, Dr. Trambadia has consulted with corporations, nonprofit organizations, healthcare centers, professional sports leagues, and government agencies. His work addresses leadership effectiveness, team dynamics, workplace stress, and wellness. He also supports professional and amateur athletes with mental health and adjustment concerns, and serves as a community football coach in Cobb County, Georgia.

PROGRAM OBJECTIVES

By the end of this presentation, participants will be able to:

• Differentiate burnout from acute stress, depression, and compassion fatigue using established conceptual and clinical features
• Explain at least three biological processes associated with chronic stress and burnout, including autonomic nervous system activation, sleep disruption, inflammation, and cumulative physiological burn
• Analyze how psychological factors, including perfectionism, cognitive appraisal, emotional regulation, coping patterns, and professional identity may increase or decrease vulnerability to burnout
• Evaluate how interpersonal, cultural, educational, and organizational conditions contribute to burnout among psychology trainees and professionals
• Identify biological, psychological, behavioral, relational, and occupational manifestations of burnout and their potential effects on professional functioning, clinical judgment, ethical practice, and quality of care
• Develop a multilevel burnout-prevention and recovery plan that integrates evidence-informed individual, relational, supervisory, and organizational interventions

PROGRAM AGENDA

12:00pm – 12:10pm Welcome and orientation

12:10pm – 12:30pm What burnout is and is not

12:30pm – 12:55pm  The biology of burnout

12:55pm – 1:20pm Psychological pathways

01:20pm – 1:35pm Social, cultural, and systemic contributors

01:35pm – 02:00pm Recognizing burnout in training and practice

02:00pm – 02:25pm Individual and relational interventions

02:25pm – 02:50pm Supervisory and organizational interventions

02:50pm – 03:00pm Integration and action planning

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