Adoecimento psiquico de professores: mapeamento e breve análise da literatura no período de 2018 a 2023

Abstract

It presents an analysis of the mapping of the literature on problems, conditionings and the most common causes of mental health impairment in Brazilian teachers. The objective is to present an overview of mental illness among basic education teachers in Brazil and to show the lack of public policies for care, prevention or health promotion. The methodology included the recovery of scientific production on the subject, in its conceptual and methodological aspects in the form of articles and a book chapter, published in Brazil, in the last 05 years, that addresses the subject. This is a preliminary review, carried out in the SciELO and Google Scholar databases, based on the terms descriptors mental health, teaching work, teacher, basic education and illness. Articles in Portuguese were chosen, whose research instruments were interviews, documentary sources and literature review. Productions that bring as triggered diseases, from situations experienced daily in/or because of the exercise of the profession, and their main causes were identified. Among the causes: overload of teaching work combined with domestic work, social and professional devaluation, low salaries and supposed autonomy. Existing health problems have worsened with the COVID-19 pandemic.