Learning burnout is an emotion state of physical and mental exhaustion, academic alienation and low sense of achievement for a variety of reasons in the process of learning. If students with learning burnout cannot get effective help, it will affect their academic development. Students of grade 2 in senior high school are at the watershed of their high school stage, they are more likely to encounter learning burnout for more learning tasks and pressure. This study researches the current situation of learning burnout of students of grade 2 in senior high school, analyzes the related causes of learning burnout, selects some students with high level of learning burnout to carry out group psychological counseling intervention and explores new methods to help students of grade 2 in senior high school reduce learning burnout.

First of all, in the permission of the grade group leader and director of the classes, we used Adolescent Learning Burnout Scale to survey students of grade 2 in senior high school of a middle school in Beijing. We issued 380 scales, eliminated 27 invalid scales and recycled 353 valid scales. The effective rate was 92.8%. And the valid scales were registered, tested and analyzed. The results showed the average score of learning burnout of students of grade 2 in senior high school was 2.55, which was below median. In each dimension, physical and mental exhaustion scored the highest, with an average score of 3.04, the second was low sense of achievement, with an average score of 2.71. The score of the academic alienation was the lowest, with an average score of 1.92.

By comparing the score of different types of students, it was found that the learning burnout level of the students with outstanding academic performance was lower while the learning burnout level of the students with lagging academic performance was higher. Students who were satisfied with the class environment had a lower level of learning burnout while those who were dissatisfied with the class environment had a higher level of learning burnout. In addition, there was no significant difference in the score of learning burnout in gender, class leader or not, only child or not and the educational background of father and mother.

Then, based on the recommendation of the class director of each class of grade 2 in senior high school, we interviewed students who were willing to participate and found out the Adolescent Learning Burnout Scale they filled out anonymously before. 20 students with high score were selected and divided into experimental group (10) and the control group (10). 10 students in the experimental group were given group psychological counseling 8 times (once a week for 8 weeks) by self-designed group psychological counseling program based on ABC theory while 10 students in the control group did not participate in group psychological counseling. After that, the experimental group and the control group were tested by Adolescent Learning Burnout Scale. Four weeks later, the experimental group was tested by Adolescent Learning Burnout Scale again.