Principals plead to be allowed to return to their core responsibility- that is leading the quality of teaching and learning in their schools. “Exhaustion, migraine, anxiety, insomnia, feelings of hopelessness, burn out” were just some of the symptoms reported by head teachers in a recent survey of 850 primary schools …
WORKPLACE STRESS
“…Morality cannot be legislated, but behaviour can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless…” Martin Luther King, Jr. It is only comparatively recently that the law has confirmed that employers have a legal liability for stress-based psychiatric injury suffered by their employees. …
COPING WITH CHANGE
Settling Down, Getting Married, Moving House… Anything that causes change is stressful. The attitudes that people adopt to change can be categorised as resistors, hesitators, and eager adopters. Eager adopters appear to suffer the least amount of stress. This is due to the fact that the eager adopters are not …


