Exploring Teacher Mental Health and Systemic Approaches in Schools

In part 1 of this 2-part episode, we bring you an episode from the Psych Health and Safety podcast where Jason and Joelle chat with Dr Helen Kelly about burnout in teachers and school principals. Helen shares some of the statistics about burnout and attrition rates in teachers, the commonalities and differences in psychosocial hazard exposure between teachers and principals, and the reasons behind the ever-increasing workload for both groups. She offers suggestions for how schools can better manage psychosocial hazards, and shares examples of novel approaches that different schools have taken to improve the wellbeing of their teachers and principals.