Handbook of Mental Wellness Strategies for Educators

The Handbook of Mental Wellness Strategies for Educators offers health-giving ways to reframe teaching work and the stresses that come with it, examining specific evidence-based strategies for dealing with teaching anxieties and trauma-related stressors.

Ken Badley, PhD is Research Professor in Education at Tyndale University. Genie Kim, PhD, is Associate Professor of Education at Tyndale University. Iriel Jaroslavsky is an Assistant Principal with the Calgary Catholic School Board.

1. Addressing Teachers' Anxieties 2. Teachers' Ambient Anxieties 3. Anxiety about Classroom Management? (Re)Discover Research and Frameworks 4. Overcoming Subject-Knowledge Insecurities 5. Reframing Teachers' Negative Experiences with Assessment 6. From Floundering to Flourishing: Mitigating Educator Secondary Traumatic Stress to Promote Holistic Health 7. Every Teachers' Worst Nightmare: Navigating Profound Trauma 8. Boundaries and Resilience 9. Body Mapping as a Wellness Practice for Arts Teachers 10. Social-Emotional Learning Through a Teacher Lens 11. Building Wellness Through Co-Regulation 12. Aristotle Meets Two Teachers in a Bar: Can Practices Produce Dispositions? 13. Renaming, Reframing, and Reclaiming: Changing Language to Change Cognition 14. Teaching Through It: Managing Depression and Anxiety in the Classroom 15. Distressed to De-stressed By Practicing Gratitude