How Principals Manage Stress: Strategies for Successful Coping

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This book offers contemporary viewpoints on stress and its management to on-site educational practitioners, stress researchers, and even to management trainers. All principals secretly ask themselves if other school principals are as stressed as they are. Younger principals wonder whether they will feel less stress when they are older and more experienced on the job. Many want to find out if feeling stressed is a sign of incompetence. This book has researched and reported all these questions and more. Using a situationally anchored perspective on stress and its management in the real context of schools, this book discusses issues such as ‘when can a coping strategy be said to be a ‘good’ one?. “What distinguishes superior stress management decisions in trickly situations at school from poor ones, and ‘is this what makes some principals more successful and others less so? These are some of the questions dealt with in this book in the context of effective management of schools. This book has researched the behaviours and styles used by successful principals in handing some typically stressful situations in their working lives and come 0ut with some surprising discoveries.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Nalini Juneja

Nalini Juneja (b. 19520 holds a Master’s degree in Psychology and a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Delhi. She has taught Psychoogy at the undergraduate level. Currently, she is a member of the faculty of the National Institute of Education Planning and Administration (NIEPA), New Delhi. She lectures extensively on topics related to the behavioural sciences and educational administration.

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Title
How Principals Manage Stress: Strategies for Successful Coping
Author
Edition
1st ed.
Publisher
ISBN
8170998921
Length
xx+356p., Figures; Tables; Appendices; Bibliography; Index; 22cm.
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