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Recent years have seen a mental health crisis take hold within school environments. Teaching staff facing demanding workloads, limited resources and constant budget cuts are increasingly stretched beyond their contracted hours, and mental wellbeing and self-care slip through the cracks as a result. The need for cultural shift has become yet more apparent in recent years, in which the number of teachers relying on counselling services has surged and over half have reported considering leaving the profession. Drawing on case studies from years of experience working within schools and supporting staff mental health, Amy Sayer introduces the main issues affecting teaching staff and the strategies that can be implemented to change the conversation and ensure that mental wellbeing is placed at the forefront. This is an accessible, easy-to-read guide to setting up a culture in which staff may talk openly about the issues affecting them, prioritise self-care and re-discover their love of teaching

Ce livre a été conçu pour les étudiants du cours « Protection de son intégrité personnelle » du programme de Techniques de travail social offert au Cégep de Ste-Foy. Il pourra néanmoins intéresser tous les intervenants du réseau communautaire ou de la santé et des services sociaux qui souhaitent être conscientisés à la nécessité de prendre soin de soi et d'agir de manière à prévenir les risques du métier qu'ils ont choisi. Approfondir la connaissance de soi, enrichir sa maturité personnelle et professionnelle, s'initier à la protection personnelle qu'exigent les professions de relation d'aide et apprendre à intervenir de manière sécuritaire pour soi comme pour les autres, voilà ce qui est proposé dans ce livre. Plusieurs sujets y sont abordés, tels que l'épuisement professionnel (ou trouble d'adaptation), la fatigue de compassion, le trauma vicariant, l'agression et le trouble de stress post-traumatique. Ils contribueront aux apprentissages nécessaires pour reconnaître en soi et dans son environnement de travail les facteurs de risque, les prédispositions et les indices qui pourraient compromettre ou influencer son intégrité tant physique que psychologique.

Modern businesses place huge emphasis on technical training, yet a lot of what determines the success or failure of an organisation has nothing to do with the traditional 'hard' skills taught at business school, but rather the sophisticated 'soft' skills that are key to emotional maturity.

The Emotionally Intelligent Office introduces us to twenty core emotional skills that can help businesses and individuals to flourish. They range from giving and receiving honest feedback and accepting that it's OK to fail, to addressing jealousies and insecurities within teams. We learn about how our childhoods continue to have an often unhelpful impact on how we deal with colleagues and the best ways we might speak so that others will listen.

This book is informed by the practical work that the Business division of The School of Life carries out, endeavouring to change the culture within organisations around the world by teaching teams the art of emotional intelligence. [editor summary]