ABSTRACT
Charles Mead and Paul Timmins address the issues surrounding stress in the work place - this being the school. They identify the use of Peer Support Groups to reduce it. They offer practical approaches which institutions may use to set up these groups. This chapter clearly deals with the individual needs of the educator.
'Work, is, by its very nature, about violence - to the spirit as well as the body. It is about ulcers as well as accidents, about shouting matches as well as fistfights, about nervous breakdowns as well as kicking the dog around. It is above all (or beneath all) about daily humiliations. To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us.' (Allington and Cooper et al., 1989, p. 387)
