Cuidando de quem ensina: relato de experiência em um projeto de atenção e promoção à saúde mental de docentes da rede pública

Abstract

About four decades ago, stress in the teaching profession was mentioned for the first time in the literature, describing the phenomenon as a non-positive emotional aspect, resulting from certain experiences in activities linked to the daily life of the profession, which can cause and add to the lives of these professionals feelings such as malaise, sadness, anger, physical and psychological tension. In this way, this work is an experience report, using qualitative analysis as its methodological perspective, thus covering descriptions and reflections on the experiences lived during the course of the actions promoted by the extension project entitled “Caring for those who teach: Mental Health for public school teachers in the state of Ceará”. In addition, this report aimed to detail the results of the training and lectures promoted by the project, as well as to highlight important data found in articles and various publications focusing on the mental health of teachers and on diseases and syndromes adjacent to the teaching career, such as Burnout syndrome, which are constantly found in professionals working in the field of education. Thus, the report on the extension project is of the utmost social and professional importance, especially as it highlights the need to pay attention to the teaching profession in the fight for the visibility of the profession and the guarantee of basic rights for the healthy performance of a personal life and work in society. In view of this, the work reflected the importance of this professional class by also providing data on factors that could undermine the education system, given the possibility of mass mental illness among these teaching professionals, as well as enabling reflection on the possibility of an impairment in the teaching-learning process and in the teacher-student interrelationship, which could subsequently lead to massive professional evasion.