Teachers can't teach effectively if they're demotivated and exhausted; and they shouldn't they have to! "A Little Guide for Teachers: Teacher Wellbeing and Self-Care" explains how wellbeing is essential to effective teaching, and gives teachers practical tools to take back control of the classroom. The "Little Guide for…

Racial Battle Fatigue was first coined by Dr. William A. Smith as a theory describing the burnout of African Americans in higher education institutions. While much of the current research focuses on the faculty and student experiences, in various formats, this provides an autoethnography capturing the various phases of a Black Male higher…

Academic burnout is a severe problem among adolescents, and coping skills are becoming more crucial. The current study identified the latent profiles of Estonian middle school students, who were reporting different levels of burnout at three measurement points, during one academic year and examined the differences between identified profiles in…

Teaching has been identified as an environment of extreme physical, mental, and cognitive demand for teachers and is one of the careers where burnout levels are the highest. This qualitative study aims to: (1) understand the importance of personal, organizational, and classroom dimensions concerning the Portuguese education system; and (2) and how…

After a year of turmoil and unsteadiness in people's lives, the country, and the world, taking steps to improve and increase self-care is one thing one can do to reach for better. Compassion fatigue, being overworked and underpaid, and the emotional stress that is added simply because educators care about each and every one of their students can…

We conducted a systematic review of research on school psychologists' job attitudes. To do so, all available published research and dissertations (N = 58) on school psychologists' job attitudes were gathered and evaluated to address three research questions. First, we identified themes in the study of school psychologists' job attitudes. Themes…

The present mixed-method longitudinal study examines students' experiences of study-related exhaustion, regulation of learning, peer learning and peer support during university studies. At the first measurement point, 188 first-year students completed the questionnaire. At the second measurement point, 91 of the 188 students participated in the…

We examined the psychometric properties of the Counselor Burnout Inventory (CBI) with 560 early career, post-master's counselors. We tested the dimensional structure of the CBI, item ordering, and the function of the rating scale using item response theory. Implications of the findings for researchers, counselors, and counselor educators are…

Due to the COVID-19 epidemic in the world, the change in the working conditions of individuals has started to cause a change in the level of burnout. Teachers are also one of the occupational groups whose working conditions have changed the most during the epidemic and their burnout level has also changed. Therefore, the aim of this study was to…

Instructional coaching is implemented by school districts for the professional development of staff (Knight, 2007). The purpose of this quantitative study was to gain information regarding the effectiveness of an instructional coaching program to limit teacher burnout and increase teacher retention. Non-tenured teachers from two rural school…

Student media leaders on higher education campuses typically do more than just run a media outlet. From teaching coursework, grading, committee work and mentoring of students' student media leaders find themselves many times overworked and underappreciated. If not handled properly by administration these feelings could lead to burnout of the…

The central purpose for this study was to identify coping strategies used by secondary principals to manage stress and prevent burnout. The participants in this study were active, secondary principals from a large, 6A school district in the state of Texas. Participation was voluntary. Data for the study were collected through individual interviews…

Emotional labor, defined as the work associated with suppression of true emotions in a difficult environment, task or encounter, can lead to compassion fatigue and burnout. The relationships between emotional labor, compassion fatigue and burnout have been described and studied in clinical nursing. The components of emotional labor in the nurse…

Compassion fatigue refers to the negative consequences associated with working with traumatized individuals. When a crisis occurs, school psychologists are often the first to respond to the mental health needs of the children, often exposing them to the intimate details of the crisis and increasing risk for compassion fatigue. The aim of this…

Objective: To examine the impact of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV2 (COVID-19) pandemic on Residents Assistants (RA) at a public university in the Midwest. Participants: Sixty-seven RAs that had been offered an RA position for the '20-'21 academic year. Methods: An online cross-sectional survey measuring socio-demographics, stress, and well-being…