Stress Relief for Teachers: The Coping Triangle [Hardcover]

Even the best teachers can feel overwhelmed with the pressures of the job and become prone to anxiety, depression and anger. This book offers teachers an easily implemented and proven approach to dealing with these feelings in a more helpful way, enabling them to cope with taxing situations as well as the day-to-day stress of the classroom. Based on the principles of cognitive-behavioural therapy and on the authors many years of experience, Stress Relief for Teachers is both a practical guide to feeling better and more in control, and a guide to understanding difficult feelings and how our thoughts, feelings and actions are inextricably linked.

1. Introduction 2. Teachers, Stress and the Coping Triangle 3. Common Stressors in the Classroom: Age, Gender, Ability, Personality 4. Anger, Anxiety and Depression As Reactions to Stress 5. Understanding Anxiety 6. Understanding Depression 7. Coping with Anger, Anxiety and Depression in the Classroom 8. The Theory Behind the Coping Triangle 9. From Theory to Practice! 10. Conclusion

 

The author introduces a tried-and-tested coping framework, based on the principles of cognitive behavioural therapy. She shows how using this framework in everyday life can make a really positive difference to teachers' lives and will equip them to tackle key challenges in the classroom.Dr. Claire Hayes is a clinical psychologist and an educational psychologist who has a particular interest in psychoeducational appraoches to helping people prevent and/or cope with difficulties such as anxiety and depression. Her work involves clinical work, lecturing, consultancy, research and writing.

'An interesting book which contains valuable explanations of how situations generate anxiety. Fascinating case studies give insight to the world of children and their reaction to traumatic experiences, often transferred to dailC±