Preventing Burnout
Teaching
Heartcare Planning emerged as a key finding from the Compassion Fatigue, Burnout, and Emotional Labour in Educational Workers research study. Create a HEARTcare plan to figure out how you respond to occupational stress and distress, ways to identify crisis and trauma work, and investigate available interventions to restore or maintain your emotional and mental health.
This document provides an overview of key information and resources helpful to administrators in fostering mentally healthy school environments for students and staff.
Principals could apply for a 10 week paid leave to undertake professional learning, reflection and rejuvenation. The purpose is to improve overall retention rates of experienced, effective principals and enhance their enthusiasm for school leadership.
Burnout Toolkit includes strategies to prevent and combat burnout in the workplace.
“I was stressed and overwhelmed. I was burned out. I needed to take care of me because I could not pour from an empty cup”
Dentistry
In this video, Dr. Sheila Raja discusses the burnout in healthcare (including associated concepts such as compassion fatigue and vicarious traumatization) and strategies to avoid it.