"Demoralized: Why Teachers Leave the Profession They Love and How They Can Stay" offers a timely analysis of professional dissatisfaction that challenges the common explanation of burnout. Featuring the voices of educators, the book offers concrete lessons for practitioners, school leaders, and policy makers on how to think more…

This article presents a review of literature addressing professional burnout, designed to help professionals recognize at-risk patterns and characteristics of burnout. A conceptual model is presented for managing work setting and work style characteristics that place early intervention providers at risk for burnout. (Author/PB)

Investigated burnout levels and coping strategies of 162 superintendents of public residential facilities for mentally retarded persons. Results indicated that mean overall burnout scores tended to be lower than those reported for other human service employees. Superintendents tended to favor direct/active strategies for coping with stressors.…

Reports on a case study of inservice training conducted to enhance the teacher/student relationship and reduce teacher anxiety. Found significant improvements in attitudes, classroom management activities, and lower anxiety among teachers. (MD)

Teacher burnout in the special education teacher is defined, and suggestions for reducing burnout are provided. (SBH)

Describes a National Education Association workshop designed to help teachers manage day-to-day stress and stay in teaching. The program has four objectives: to identify sources of stress; to determine present stress level; to explore ways to manage stress; and to explore ways to minimize distress. (CT)

An Australian principal points out reasons for low morale and high stress among teachers. (MD)

If educational leaders can reduce the structural causes of stress distress, they can provide an atmosphere that is less prone to malingering. Role clarity is particularly crucial in job satisfaction and organizational stress. (BRR)

Teacher-coaches are particularly susceptible to stress and burnout because of role conflict, role ambiguity, and role overload. Administrators need to be more aware of the special problems teacher-coaches have, develop alternative staffing patterns, and try to relieve some of the stress and pressure. (CB)

A number of brief, focused self-help interventions designed to help faculty manage stress more effectively are described such as being assertive, setting priorities, and using quick relaxation techniques. Related causes of stress are cited. (MSE)

This book explores new definitions of stress and its consequences, changing the context of stress through the discussion of far-reaching new discoveries about how to defuse it. The book focuses on what stress symptoms really indicate, how clutter obfuscates internal clarity, how to reframe relationships with other people as healing connections,…

Outlines a stress-strain model, examines administrator burnout, and suggests ways to manage stress. (PD)

This comprehensive bibliography contains an alphabetized list of over 1000 references dealing with job stress and burnout. All relevant published references are included; they represent major journals from a wide range of disciplines, including psychology, sociology, management and administration, and human services such as social work and…

Defines and describes stress and its causes. Suggests ways administrators can help teachers manage stress effectively. (WD)

Summarizes some recent findings on the causes of teacher burnout and suggests things that individual teachers, administrators, and professional organizations can do to alleviate stress. (SJL)