Emotional burnout in teachers

Modern pedagogues are faced with the fact that they are subjected to high demands. The teacher is obliged not only to master new educational programs, to engage in self-education, but also to build communication with students and colleagues at work. The teacher, as a person immersed in the life of other people and compelled to sympathize with them, experiences emotional overloads, gradually a state of stress occurs. As a result, emotional burnout occurs. It is necessary to engage in its prevention in order to maintain psychological health.

Burnout refers to the syndrome of chronic stress, which leads to emotional exhaustion of a person and arises as a psychological defense of the person from traumatic phenomena and influences. At the same time negative emotions accumulate, which a person can not throw out. As a rule, emotional burnout is common among people engaged in professions, where there is an overabundance of communication, causing mental fatigue. They are doctors, teachers, psychologists.

The following factors influence the occurrence of the burnout syndrome: isolation on one's own work and its effectiveness; Fear of making a mistake and striving to always be the best. Women are most affected by the syndrome, as they are more emotionally experiencing conflict situations in the workplace. Competition, intense activities related to emotional communication and a large influx of information are all prerequisites for the emergence of the burnout syndrome.

According to observations of specialists, emotional burnout of teachers arises for several reasons: a difficult financial situation; Social insecurity; Feeling of prestige of the profession. The person, subject to burnout, is able to infect with his mental state the whole team. The teacher begins to feel professionally insolvent, he loses his life values and turns into a bad worker.

There are three stages of the burnout syndrome. The first phase is characterized by the emergence of an alarming tension in the occurrence of factors that traumatize the psyche. The second phase - a person tries to protect himself, to protect himself from unpleasant phenomena. The third phase - there is exhaustion, a drop in energy tone. The nervous system weakens and the resources of the psyche are impoverished.

To severe consequences, resulting in emotional burnout, include problems in the family, loss of contact with children. In communication there is aggression, anxiety, irritability. With the students, the teacher moves on to an authoritarian style of communication, which violates the psychological atmosphere in the classroom.

As a rule, burnout syndrome leads to the fact that psychologists have to work with teachers, helping them cope with the consequences of severe psychological stress. In practice, the prevention of emotional burnout is very rare. To prevent the occurrence of stress, you must adhere to the following requirements:

• Evenly distribute their loads;
• Periodically from one activity to another;
• To conflict to try to be calm;
• Do not strive to be the best in everything.

It is necessary to educate and develop a sense of self-confidence and business, cheerfulness and faith in people. It helps to get rid of stress all that gives positive emotions: tasty food, music, nature, massage, pets, long sleep.

All this can not be done in the workplace. But the prevention of emotional burnout of teachers should be carried out and within the walls of the school. Psychologists conduct special trainings to identify the causes of stress, to warn them and help teachers to support psychological health. The main purpose with which classes are conducted with specialists is to receive positive emotions and find the keys to solving their psychological problems.