Stress and Coping

Roland Chaplain and Andrea Freeman

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Explore different coping strategies

This important pack is designed to help manage and reduce stress amongst secondary school staff. It will be of interest to headteachers, school managers, classroom teachers and anyone interested in staff development. It explains how and why staff in schools experience stress and the long-term effects of different coping strategies.

Stress and Coping looks at the issues from organisational, inter-group and individual levels. Furthermore, it provides a wealth of practical support through ready-to-use documentation and guidance on staff welfare at all levels. Through a series of simple steps, a whole school proactive approach to stress and coping can be developed.

The information and activities are based on materials developed and used effectively by the authors through school-based research, pre-service courses and INSET. The pack can be used as a whole or as a set of self-contained sections.

Note that this product also forms part of Developing Your Staff 2: Working with Staff.

Contents

• Introduction
• How to use this pack
• The language of stress
• Why do I feel stressed?
• Coping as a teacher
• Personal factors and coping
• Situational factors and coping
• External factors and coping
• Coping strategies and coping style
• Headteachers and senior managers
• Suggesting training programmes
• Further reading and references