Teacher Burnout: Self-Care

Teacher Burnout: Self-Care

I recently read an article that was focused on the ethical issues faced within mental health professions. In this article I came across the influence of burnout within theses types of workforce, specifically in social workers. Within this article there was a case in which a newly graduated social worker Lori came across a job opportunity. From the beginning she was told that many people that entered this job did not last, however she did not pay much attention to those comments. As time passed, she received good comments about her work, she was even assigned new projects, soon after she noticed that she would go into work early in the morning, yet she ended up leaving until 10 p.m. everyday. The purpose of this case was to illustrate to the reader the importance of professional self-care. It was great that Lori was being put ahead on projects and being delegated many new projects however, she needed to consider her self-care. Even though she was working hard she also needed to consider not over working herself. The importance of self-care is that is can be a great influential power to prevent burnout! Self-care can also be applied to the field of education since as a teacher one may come upon many pressures from the side of the education system, students, parents, principles, other teachers, or even just family problems.

For further information about the article:

http://eds.b.ebscohost.com/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=4d057484-eac8-4650-a8d0-de8c70234756%40sessionmgr114&vid=3&hid=121