Stress in Teaching

`This book is to be recommended as a valuable contribution to teacher stress literature generally. Teachers and school managers should find this an informative and useful handbook even reassuring in certain ways. I would also recommend it to anyone even remotely concerned with the plight of teachers as we approach the thired millennium.' - Educational Psychology Vol 13`This is a fascinatingly readable book.' - Education`..a very informative and readable text...Dunham has fulfilled a supplementary aim to help teachers rediscover the "variety and continuing challenge of teaching".' - The Psychologist

• List of figures, List of tables, Preface to the second edition, List of abbreviations, 1 INTRODUCTION, 2 PROBLEMS CAUSED BY ORGANIZATIONAL AND CURRICULAR CHANGES BEFORE THE REFORM ACT 1988, 3 THE EFFECTS OF THE REFORM ACT 1988 ON TEACHERS’ ROLES, 4 PROBLEMS OF ROLE CONFLICT AND ROLE AMBIGUITY, 5 PRESSURES OF CHILDREN’S BEHAVIOUR, 6 PROBLEMS CAUSED BY DIFFICULT WORKING CONDITIONS, 7 PRESSURES ON THE SENIOR MANAGEMENT TEAM, 8 PRESSURES ON MIDDLE MANAGEMENT, 9 IDENTIFICATION OF STRESS REACTIONS, 10 TEACHERS’ COPING RESOURCES, 11 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR STRENGTHENING PERSONAL AND INTERPERSONAL RESOURCES, 12 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR STRENGTHENING ORGANIZATIONAL RESOURCES, Appendix: Teachers’ reactions to industrial action, Bibliography, Index