Rather than avoid stress, superintendents need to control and use it to their advantage. They should become familiar with the stress cycle, which progresses from stress traps through perceived stress, coping responses, and consequences (burnout). Superintendents can avoid burnout by focusing on important matters, confronting conflict positively,…

Surveys 1,000 Washington principals and superintendents to ascertain the nature and extent of their occupational stress and burnout and the association with sex role orientation. Superintendents perceive less task-based and conflict-mediating stress than do principals, but report more externally caused stress. Task-based stress is the best…

Teachers on sabbatical who participated in professional development had improved professional identity, greater feelings of empowerment, less job burnout, and less desire to leave their workplace or the profession. These findings resulted from survey responses from 269 of 400 Israeli elementary school teachers who took sabbaticals. (SK)

Prevention of teacher burnout can be fostered at the preservice level by (1) the development of realistic expectations, (2) encouragement of detached concern, (3) a better understanding of classroom successes and failures, and (4) an introduction to stress reduction strategies. (Author/DB)

As college faculty's professional interests narrow over time and pressure to publish increases, writing burnout may occur. Senior faculty should be encouraged to give their informed perspective on current cultural, political, and scientific dilemmas through the popular media. Strategies for such regeneration are easily incorporated into faculty…

Discusses burnout among teaching librarians and suggests cooperative learning methods in bibliographic instruction classes as a way to avoid burnout. A workshop is described that was developed at SUNY College at Oswego to teach other librarians collaborative and cooperative teaching methods, and background materials on group work in education are…

Health effects of teacher stress and teacher burnout are reviewed separately. Serious methodological and conceptual difficulties in research weaken conclusions that have been drawn regarding the effects on teacher health of stress and burnout. The need for theory-based investigations is discussed. (SLD)

Describes a high school English teacher's impromptu relationship with a troubled special-education student. Miles's satiric essay about a teacher literally blowing up in class helped revitalize the English teacher's efforts to improve his own students' writing skills. (MLH)

Assesses the correlation of burnout among community college nursing faculty members and their use of humor to mediate academic stress related to burnout. Differences in burnout between high versus low humor usage respondents showed a higher sense of personal accomplishment with high humor usage. Of those with low humor usage, workload was related…

Elementary school teachers (N=200) were assessed about their explanatory attribution and preferred practices regarding four school behavior problems. Teacher burnout was assessed by Maslach Burnout Inventory. Results show that teacher misbehavior-related attributions and preferred practices differentiate significantly the burnout levels…

In individual and group interviews, 14 retiring Scottish headteachers discussed their decision to apply for early retirement. Perceived pushes from the system included external pressures, job expansion/overload, bureaucracy, local authority support, loss of job satisfaction, and school relationships. Early retirement among these principals stemmed…

This paper discusses the issue of counsellor burnout and secondary traumatic stress (STS) and its potential impact on ethical behaviour. Burnout and STS are common outcomes of providing counselling and psychotherapy and may lead to counsellor impairment. A diminished ability to function professionally may constitute a serious violation of the…

Documenting the effects of crisis intervention work on school psychologists was the primary purpose of this study. To examine these effects a sample of 400 randomly selected school psychologists were surveyed. Half of the surveys were returned. Among respondents who had previously participated in a crisis intervention, just over 90% reported one…

Relatively high rates of teacher attrition have been consistently identified as a major issue for the teaching profession over several decades. As a result, there has been a growing interest in the wellbeing of teachers across the entire education sector. Recent research by Noble, Goddard and O'Brien (2003) has found that early childhood teachers,…

Background: Hastings, R. P. ["American Journal on Mental Retardation" (2002) Vol. 107, pp. 455-467] hypothesized that staff negative emotional reactions to challenging behaviour might accumulate over time to affect staff well-being. Only one previous study (Mitchell, G.& Hastings, R. P. ["American Journal on Mental…