- Author
- Seldin, Peter
- Publisher
- Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA
- ISBN
- 1555429750
- Table of Contents
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Notes
ch. 1 Academic burnout - Faculty responsibility and institutional climate
ch. 2 Research findings on causes of academic stress
ch. 3 What colleges and universities can do about faculty stressors
ch. 4 The stress-producing working conditions of part-time faculty
ch. 5 Faculty stress - the tension between career demands and "having it all"
ch. 6 Short term coping techniques for managing stress
ch. 7 Long-term stress management
ch. 8 Institutional preventative stress management
ch. 9 The faculty renewal program at University of Georgia
Stress can be beneficial if it triggers growth and improves the professor's performance. But it can be destructive if it leads to burnout, alcoholism, tension headaches, irritability, and boredom. The destructive consequences of faculty stress are not inevitable. They result solely from improperly managing and reacting to stressful events. This volume spells out the specific causes of faculty stress in the mid 1980's. It offers practical and proven ways of coping with the many stressful situations facing today's professors. The objective is not to try to escape the effects of stress - for it is an inevitable part of academic life - but rather to channel and control our responses to it. (From the Publisher)