A South Australian school is doubling down on efforts to reduce stress and anxiety among students. Working with Concordia College, Flinders University researchers last year pinpointed three wellbeing priorities for the whole school – psychological skills, body image education, and ...
More »It doesn’t have to be a small world, after all: helping students with anxiety
Anxiety can make a child’s world seem smaller and teachers should try to avoid helping shrink it. That’s one of the many pieces of advice Dr Mandie Shean, from Edith Cowan University’s School of Education, gave on the Body of ...
More »Modern world causing kids stress at school: UNICEF report
Australian school children consider climate change to be the biggest threat to their future safety and have little faith in the country’s leaders, according to a recent UNICEF report. The A Climate for Change: 2019 Young Ambassador Report also found ...
More »Great expectations: helping students weighed down by the pressure to succeed
Final year school students are rushing towards an imaginary finishing line burdened by societal expectations about their future, leading to a state of anxiety that impairs academic performance and negatively affects decision-making. That’s the view of University of the Sunshine Coast ...
More »Skin a potential student stress detector
Human skin is a multi-tasker. Obviously it contains our internal organs, but it also wards off bacteria, moisture and the sun; regulates temperature; produces hormones; stores bodily substances; and indicates medical conditions. Now, it can potentially add another role to its arsenal: ...
More »Growing number of principals subjected to physical violence: survey
Principals are working long hours, increasingly at risk of violence and being buried under excessive admin. That’s according to the latest Australian Principal Occupational Health, Safety and Wellbeing survey, which highlighted the stressors taking a toll on principals' wellbeing. The ...
More »Tap to feel better: de-stressing methods under the microscope
Should you tap your way to feeling less stressed? Or is plain old 'switching off' the better option? That’s what Bond University researchers hope to confirm as part of a new study into psychological interventions for stress. Research lead Associate ...
More »Problem children: the issues concerning today’s teens
“As a uni student who just moved out of home, being able to pay rent as well as survive without a job or parental help was my biggest stress ... the availability of jobs to uni students, especially new ones I ...
More »Opinion: the pressure-cooker lives of Singapore’s teachers
Twelve-hour days and big classes are realities that Singapore's teachers face daily. Such conditions create stressful work environments which impede their capacity to live up to their global reputation for teaching excellence. They are usually too exhausted to be the classroom innovators they ...
More »Addressing burnout in teachers
As pressure on teachers increases, the shift is visible in their declining health and the prevalence of burnout, experts say. To curb the issue of teacher burnout - and increase the likelihood of graduates staying in their jobs - Springfox ...
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