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Recipe For Burnout

Recipe For Burnout Special Report Robert H. Bradfield Donald M. Fones The Special Education Teachers' Diet Teacher burnout! Books are written about it. Seminars and workshops deal with the topic. And teachers can attest to the fact that it is, indeed, a reality. At a time when costs of teacher education are increasing and the gap between teacher salaries and the cost of living is widening, the problem of teacher burnout may well be one of the most critical issues in special education. W e have seen an in- creasing concern with the teacher burnout phenomenon in re- cent years (Warnatt 1980, Voc. Ed. 1981, Needle et al. 1980, Fimian 1980, Schwartz et al. 1983). Newell (1978) feels that dysfunctional stress has reached epidemic proportions in our schools. Weiskopf (1980) has focused attention on the problem in special education and indicates that teachers of exceptional children may be particularly subjected to emotional stress due to the nature of their jobs and the problems associated wit h excep- tional children. Stephen Truch, in Teacher Burnout and What to Do About It (1980) proposed a four-part prevention program as a means of combatting excessive stress and teacher burnout. He sug- MAR. 1984 499 gests http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Academic Therapy SAGE

Recipe For Burnout

Bradfield, Robert H.; Fones, Donald M.
Academic Therapy , Volume 19 (4): 6 – Mar 1, 1984
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Special Report Robert H. Bradfield Donald M. Fones The Special Education Teachers' Diet Teacher burnout! Books are written about it. Seminars and workshops deal with the topic. And teachers can attest to the fact that it is, indeed, a reality. At a time when costs of teacher education are increasing and the gap between teacher salaries and the cost of living is widening, the problem of teacher burnout may well be one of the most critical issues in special education. W e have seen an in- creasing concern with the teacher burnout phenomenon in re- cent years (Warnatt 1980, Voc. Ed. 1981, Needle et al. 1980, Fimian 1980, Schwartz et al. 1983). Newell (1978) feels that dysfunctional stress has reached epidemic proportions in our schools. Weiskopf (1980) has focused attention on the problem in special education and indicates that teachers of exceptional children may be particularly subjected to emotional stress due to the nature of their jobs and the problems associated wit h excep- tional children. Stephen Truch, in Teacher Burnout and What to Do About It (1980) proposed a four-part prevention program as a means of combatting excessive stress and teacher burnout. He sug- MAR. 1984 499 gests

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