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Dealing with caring responsibilities

Here's some information about what you can do to get support if you have caring responsilibities.

Talking to colleagues about mental health - teachers and education staff

How to talk to colleagues about mental health and wellbeing

The skills to have healthy conversations about mental health and wellbeing are key to creating a culture where people feel valued, cared for and supported.

Spotting the signs of poor mental health and wellbeing

If the signs of stress, anxiety and poor mental health can be spotted early this can allow teachers and education staff to get help and so not have to get to a point where they become physically sick, burnt out or have to be signed off with stress.

How to deal with emotions

If you feel the following common difficult emotions that can make you feel overwhelmed, here are some things that can help.

activities to manage stress - teachers and education staff

Activities to decrease stress

These ideas will decrease stress and improve your emotional wellbeing.

I feel stressed or anxious

Teachers and education staff endure greater job-related stress than other professionals, according to recent research. However there are a number of tools and techniques to help manage and reduce stress.

Managing technology

A good work-life balance is about being able to concentrate well on the task in hand whether at school or out of work and our devices can often prohibit this. Here are some tips to better manage your technology so you can focus better:

Dealing with illness

Dealing with a chronic or serious illness can feel overwhelming and bring around many unwanted changes. It can often make us feel powerless and out of control.

Dealing with bereavement

Bereavement can leave people feeling panicky, frozen, depressed, angry and a whole host of very overwhelming feelings. There is no one way to grieve and sometimes it can affect people years after the death happened, especially if they did not mourn at the time.

Eating well

We need to eat well for our prefrontal cortex (rational brain) to work and allow us to perform to the best of our abilities. Often when people feel irritable, are in a mood or they are finding it hard to concentrate it is because their prefrontal cortex needs refuelling as it has a short battery.

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