Coping with Faculty Stress
This useful book outlines the chief forms and major causes of academic stress. Practical advice shows how to distinguish negative from positive stress and how to deal with negative stressors in life and at work. The book includes exercises to help the academic understand how stress affects him or her, as well as forms to help design programmes for coping with stress.
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"Dr. Gmelch follows a sensible, pragmatic sequence of presentation in this book. . . . This book would be a definite asset for all academic libraries. In fact, I would urge departmental chairs and deans to issue it to each graduate student completing their program and entering higher education and each new assistant professor joining the faculty." --Academic Library Book Review Anxiety, frustration, and strain leading to stress and burnout. Who hasn't felt these pressures to some degree? Stress is a common feature of academic life--and not always a bad thing--according to education professor Walter H. Gmelch, who has studied faculty stress for 15 years. "Positive" stress can actually help make you a more productive scholar. But, how do we manage those little (and not so little) annoying moments and patterns of behavior that build up to the boiling point by the end of the week? Based on his extensive research, Gmelch outlines the chief forms of faculty stress and its major causes. He then provides concrete advice on what you can do about the negative stressors in your job and in other areas of your life. Replete with exercises to help understand how stress affects you and forms to help you build a plan to cope with this stress, this book will be welcome relief for any faculty member.
AcknowledgmentsPreface1Check Your Stress Level1From Distress to Eustress2Types of Tension5Plot Your Tension9Stress and Performance: The Positive Value of Stress9Coping With Stress Holistically122Identify Your Stress Traps15The Faculty Stress Cycle16Faculty Stress Traps17Factors of Faculty Stress26Coping Strategies283Use the Power of Perception40Faculty Stress Filters41Who Is the Stressed Professor?44Is Your Personality Causing You Stress?48Race Horses57The Hardy Professor58Coping With Your Personality604Balance Your Personal and Professional Pressures65Personal and Professional Trade-offs66Lining Up Your Professional Career69Balancing Spheres of Life73Setting Professional/Personal Aspirations and Goals75References80Additional Resources82About the Author85
