The Mental Health of Our Teachers

Reimagining Another Future

Debra J. Phillips (Australian Catholic University, Australia)

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Bloomsbury Academic
11 December 2025

Educational strategies & policy; Teacher training; Mental health services

This open access book looks at the psychosocial factors influencing teachers’ mental health and examines the complex and interrelated socio-cultural meta-narratives that shape and influence how individuals and communities view and respond to teachers’ mental health.

The book explores how the emerging trend towards an ontology of becoming offers a different meaning-making perspective with its shift away from interrogating the past, and away from a psychopharmacological rationale of mental health. As national and international teacher attrition rates are emerging as problematic for our communities’ future, the book's account reveals how the sense of social justice that underscores most educators’ passion for teaching and that is eroded as burnout escalates, can be re-kindled through an understanding of the wider implications of social justice, the common good and re-imagining a different future.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.

By: Debra J. Phillips (Australian Catholic University Australia)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781350457881
ISBN 10: 1350457884
Pages: 298
Publication Date: 11 December 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Adult education , Undergraduate , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Debra J. Phillips is Lecturer in the Faculty of Education and the Arts at Australian Catholic University, Australia.