Christina Maslach is Professor of Psychology at the University of California at Berkeley. She received her A.B. from Harvard-Radcliffe College, and her Ph.D. from Stanford University. She has conducted research in a number of areas, including job burnout, individuation, and health psychology. Her books include The Truth About Burnout, Burnout: The Cost of Caring, and a program for organizational assessment, Preventing Burnout and Building Engagement. She is also the author of the Maslach Burnout Inventory, the most widely used research measure in the burnout field. In 1997, she received national recognition as Professor of the Year, an award made by the Carnegie Foundation and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). Among her other honors are the presidency of the Western Psychological Association, the Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of California at Berkeley, and her selection as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (which cited her For groundbreaking work on the applications of social psychology to contemporary problems).
