The stress involved in a career in teaching has increased considerably in recent years. In England and Wales the implementation of the Education Reform Act has led to a whole range of organisational and curricular changes to add to the existing pressures of discipline problems, poor working conditions and low pay. Anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties and even physical illness are just some of the symptoms that result.
This established guide, now wholly updated for teachers and managers in the 1990s, shows how to recognize the signs of stress and how to develop strategies to...

There is increasing recognition of the need for training in specific management skills for professionals taking on the complex responsiblities of middle management in schools. However this is an area in which there has tended to be a training gap. This text helps teachers to identify and develop the knowledge and skills necessary to manage teams effectively in primary or secondary schools. It does by focusing on four major areas: staff management, management skills, professional development and change, and stress management.

There is increasing recognition of the need for training in specific management skills for professionals taking on the complex responsiblities of middle management in schools. However this is an area in which there has tended to be a training gap. This text helps teachers to identify and develop the knowledge and skills necessary to manage teams effectively in primary or secondary schools. It does by focusing on four major areas: staff management, management skills, professional development and change, and stress management.

This volume consists of nine chapters written by internationally known research workers. It begins with a psychosocial framework for understanding sickness and health in the workplace, then gives an account of research with executives in industry and the US Air Force. Tores Theorell focuses his research on the increasing demands on workers and the diminishing control they have over their working lives. Johannes Siegrist is concerned with imbalance - in this case between effort and reward at work. Then there is a report on the effects of the increase of mergers and acquisitions in the 1990s,...

Examines the stress in teaching multidisciplinary concept broad enough to include physiological, psychological, organisational and legal perspectives. The editors see stress in teaching as an interactionist concept - a complex and sometimes pracarious balance between perceived work pressures, coping strategies and stress reactions. The early chapters in the book refelct this view and make contributions to understanding the causes and costs of stress in teaching. The authors of these chapters come, collectively, to the conclusion that there is an alarmingly low level of job satisfaction in...