What causes teachers to have such serious psychological problems? Psychologists and experts believe that people's psychological frustration and lack of correct psychological adjustment means are the direct causes of psychological problems. The main reasons for teachers' psychological problems are as follows:
First, social pressure: "You are a teacher. You are omnipotent. " Some people in society don't understand the profession of teachers, expect too much, and ignore the characteristics of teachers as ordinary people, which has caused great psychological pressure on teachers.
Second, institutional pressure: the "iron rice bowl" has been broken, and teachers' occupation is unstable and insecure, which poses a threat to teachers' survival.
Third, the pressure of the object of work: As a teacher, you should be a teacher and set an example for students. Strict requirements for students, students do not understand; If you are not strict, parents and schools think you are "irresponsible".
Fourth, psychological pressure: Many teachers are worried that they can't find a job after being laid off. As a teacher, apart from teaching, I have basically no other technical and social experience, narrow interpersonal relationships, and can't find a job after being laid off.
Second, teachers' psychological growth strategies
How to guide teachers to grow up under various pressures and form a correct and healthy psychology? Fundamentally speaking, teachers' psychological growth must be maintained by themselves. A good teacher can bear a lot of pressure when needed, but don't let yourself be under pressure all the time, which will damage your body and mind and affect your normal work and life. How do teachers keep their mental health?
(A) correct cognition
1. Establish a correct self-concept
The teaching profession is the most "open" profession at present. His work should be directly or indirectly inspected and supervised by students, principals, teaching and research staff, parents of students, education bureau and even the whole society. Teachers should establish a correct and stable self-concept. Connecting personal habits, abilities, ideas, thoughts and emotional organizations runs through all aspects of experience and behavior. Only by establishing a correct and stable self-concept can we correctly understand ourselves, objectively evaluate ourselves, reasonably demand ourselves, happily understand and accept our strengths and weaknesses, and not set unattainable goals for ourselves. At the same time, because individuals know themselves better, they can objectively evaluate others, accept and understand their mistakes and shortcomings, and calmly face the injustice, dissatisfaction and imperfection in the world. This mentality is very conducive to maintaining mental health.
2. Correctly understand and treat failure.
The ability of self-maintenance of mental health includes many aspects, and teachers' view of failure is the core factor of self-maintenance of mental health.
Teachers are psychologically "open" professions, and the probability of failure and mistakes is particularly high. No one is perfect, everyone will make mistakes, and everyone will experience failure. The key is to see how to recognize and treat your own failure. If we can learn from failure and sum up experience, failure is the mother of success. But also can reduce the sources of stress and anxiety, which is more conducive to their own mental health.
3. Think from another angle
Objectively speaking, a teacher can't meet all the requirements of others and himself. And many expectations, including teachers' own expectations of themselves, are extreme. Teachers can sometimes change their thinking, think about problems from another angle, or be a Q at the right time. For example, many teachers may have been punished by the school for the bad behavior of a student in the class. In fact, teachers don't have to be too guilty. As Zhang Chunxing, an educational psychologist, said, the causes of some students' problems are rooted in the family, the symptoms appear in the school, and the condition deteriorates in the society. It's not just a simple problem of improper education, there are many reasons. Teachers can have a clear conscience as long as they do their duty.
(2) Regulating emotions
1, learn to adjust yourself and keep a good mood.
Teachers should establish health awareness, learn to adjust themselves and keep a good mood. Psychologically speaking, keeping a good mood is one of the 10 standards to measure a person's mental health. Too strong personality, too high expectations, too strict requirements, too much emotion and too much work can easily cause psychological problems. When we are young, we can be happy for an accident and a surprise for several days. When we grow up, you find that there are very few things that can make you happy. This is a normal psychological law. When people reach a certain age, it is difficult to have big fluctuations in their feelings. As long as you are not unhappy, you are happy. Teachers should also consciously adjust themselves, train themselves to maintain a happy mood, learn to find happiness, maintain emotional stability, be proactive, and try to avoid negative emotions. When negative emotions appear, they can be solved by releasing, transferring forgetting, tolerance and restraint.
2. Reasonable adjustment of catharsis
If you accumulate too many bad emotions and can't get proper catharsis, it is easy to cause mental and physical tension. Therefore, teachers should also choose the right time and reasonable way to vent their emotions from two aspects: "body" and "mind".
3. Take the initiative to seek satisfaction
If teachers feel that they can't get psychological sense of accomplishment and satisfaction in school, they can try to seek a sense of accomplishment outside the classroom. Cultivate a healthy and beneficial hobby and let yourself experience satisfaction in the deepening of these hobbies.
(3) Changing behavior
1. Role learning
When a variety of roles conflict and teachers can't tell who they are, anxiety is easy to occur. The main problem for teachers to adapt to their career is to learn to play an appropriate role. Role learning is one of the ways to prevent anxiety.
2. Find a reason to encourage yourself.
Teachers will encourage students to be "short and strong" when encountering setbacks, but it is easy to forget to encourage themselves when encountering setbacks and difficulties. Difficulties and setbacks are a part of life. Every teacher should learn to find a reason to affirm himself when facing the blow. Only in this way can we stand up in the predicament, learn from the failure and find the correct improvement method.
Step 3 keep exercising
Physical health can promote mental health. Therefore, it is also a good way to keep mental health by insisting on physical exercise, strengthening physical fitness and preventing physical diseases. However, teachers should pay attention to the problem of quantity in physical exercise, so as to avoid backfiring and affecting normal work and study because of fatigue.
4. Actively participate in continuing education.
With the rapid development of modern society, new knowledge emerges one after another. After studying in school for more than ten years, you can't learn the knowledge and skills that human beings have experienced for thousands of years, let alone the new knowledge that has grown geometrically today. Teachers are disseminators of knowledge and spokesmen of human knowledge. Therefore, it is inevitable for teachers to continue to receive continuing education, learn new knowledge and take the road of teachers' professional development.
Actively participating in continuing education is also an important measure for teachers to maintain mental health. As a teacher, only by constantly improving their comprehensive quality, constantly learning and mastering new knowledge, adapting to new teaching concepts as soon as possible, mastering new teaching methods and meeting new teaching requirements, can they seek new development and truly have a sense of psychological security.
Third, think.
Everyone should be kind to themselves and be at a low ebb, not a low ebb; Sick, but not afraid to see a doctor. Pour the light that illuminates the students on themselves, release their repression, liberate their souls and gradually get rid of them. Only by living a good personal life and a healthy life can we adapt to the needs of the times.