mental healthoccupational comparisonsteacherswellbeingThere is growing concern about the mental health and wellbeing of teachers globally, with the stress caused by the job thought to be a key factor driving many to leave the profession. It is often claimed that teachers have worse mental health ...
Factors within the school environment may impact young people's mental health and wellbeing. The aim of this study was to understand the association between teacher and student mental health and wellbeing. Further, it seeked to identify possible explanations by examining whether the strength of any...
The study's Principal Investigator, Gerry Leavey, Director of the Bamford Centre for Mental Health & Wellbeing at Ulster University said: "The destruction of self-esteem and effectiveness, combined with the despair of an externally constructed failure permeated most of our interviews with teachers. ...
ESP chief executive Julian Stanleysaid the need to protect the mental health and wellbeing of teachers was now “critical.” “Over a third of education professionals said their job had made them feel stressed most or all of the time in the past few weeks, compared to 18 per cent of the...
Teaching staff report poorer mental health and wellbeing than the general working population. Intervention to address this issue is imperative, as poor wellbeing is associated with burnout, presenteeism, and adverse student mental health outcomes. The Wellbeing in Secondary Education (WISE) intervention...
In apaperlooking at mental health and wellbeing in education, the charity argues teachers should have access to similar support to other sectors who work with children, describing the gap between professions as “stark”. Teacher wellbeing:‘It’s totally valid to have no plans this summer’ ...
The COV-ED Survey: exploring the impact of learning and teaching from home on parent/carers' and teachers' mental health and wellbeing during COVID-19 lock... TeachersCOVIDTeachingLearningLockdownMental healthEmotional wellbeingFollowing the emergence of COVID-19 in the UK, on March 18 th 202...
Preventive, rather than interventionist, approaches, are therefore required to improve the psychological wellbeing of teachers [16]. 1. Introduction Wellbeing comprises cognitive, emotional, physical, and mental components; it concerns dispositional personal, organisational, and environmental factors, and ...
How can a stressed adult, pressed for time, bubbling with their own mental health trauma, provide this level of care? The obvious conclusion to draw here is that they cannot. The impact that these pressures have on wellbeing, behaviour and results is immeasurable and completely counterproductive...
Teacher Burnout in the Time of COVID-19: Antecedents and Psychological Consequences The important, frontline role of teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic has often gone unrecognized, and attention to their mental health and well-being is often only the focus of scholarly research. The unprecedente...