Suggests faculty exchange as a method of revitalizing tenured faculty. Discusses problems to be considered, such as state laws, rank and salaries, duties, etc. (PD)

Teacher stress and job dissatisfaction stem from societal, institutional, and personal factors. Each of these factors is discussed to help educators cope with the problems they face. (DF)

Outlines an innovative district-wide staff development program that improved morale, lessened the teacher burnout rate, and saved the district money. (MD)

Explores the causes of teacher burn-out in teaching assistants and offers possible solutions, such as having them attend inservice workshops with teachers of writing from area secondary schools. (DF)

Reviews some of the major causes of burnout and presents some specific treatment suggestions that could assist authorities in working toward prevention of burnout in teachers. (FL)

School psychologists are often subject to severe stress when they work with troubled families and children. Burnout from physical, mental, or emotional exhaustion as a result of the chronic stress is not uncommon in the profession. One problem of being attentive to the needs of others is that the caregiver's needs often get overlooked or…

This journal of the California Association for Counseling and Development attempts to identify the current issues of concern in the counseling field and share research to help improve the professional learning community. The articles in this issue include: "The Editor's Message" (Pat Nellor Wickwire); "The CACD President's…

Interviews with and observations of 43 teachers in a suburban high school in New York State provided data used to test a model of teacher stress and burnout based on Teacher Performance-Motivation Theory. Results indicated that decreases in teachers' job involvement actually increased the probability of teacher burnout. (PGD)

Describes a workshop model designed to make participants aware of several important concepts related to stress and stress management. Questions discussed in group format seek to identify sources of stress and methods of coping. Advantages of the workshop model are noted and a team approach is suggested. (RC)

The Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) was designed to assess the frequency and intensity of perceived burnout among persons in the helping professions in general. Analyzing emotional exhaustion, personal accomplishment, and depersonalization (with depersonalization separated into job related and student related factors), this paper gives…

Discusses the concept of burnout. Looks at the community college president's role and factors contributing to presidential burnout. Summarizes the results of a discussion and survey of presidential burnout, revealing the symptoms associated with burnout and ways of preventing them. Urges sensitivity to burnout within the college community. (DMM)

Conflict between new child welfare service priorities and underlying attitudes is a major factor contributing to supervisory burnout. Training to prevent or alleviate supervisory burnout should be directed first to the development of realistic coping strategies and secondly to resolving problems of organizational structure in the work place.…

Suggests things that classroom teachers can do to alleviate job stress by managing the non-teaching part of their professional lives: peer support, accountability, discipline, assignments, communication, organization, compromise, avoiding over-worry, and positive attitude. (CT)

Using Maslow's and Herzberg's hierarchies of needs, the author discusses some of the personal and job-related factors which motivate teachers. He suggests that boards can motivate teachers and prevent burnout not by satisfying lower-level security needs but by providing opportunities for responsibility, reward, and achievement. (SJL)