The study deals with the problems of emotional burnout, concerning the work of teachers in the field of education. In psychological studies, the phenomenon of emotional burnout was first mentioned at the end of the twentieth century. In 1974, Herbert J. Freudenberger first used this term. He used it to describe the negative psychological state of any psychosocial occupation - a state of demoralization, exhaustion, frustration that occurs in a healthy person, who has close contact with patients in psychological clinics and crisis centers. The methodology of «Psychological burnout questionnaire for teachers» created by V.C. Rukavishnikov and the methodology of C. D. Spielberg «Determination of level of anxiety» (adaptation of Y.L. Hanin), «Scale of psych diagnostics stress PSM-25» were applied during an investigation.