A saúde mental do profissional da Educação infantil em uma escola da cidade de Pinheiro/MA

Abstract

This Course Completion work addresses the mental health of Early Childhood Education professionals as a central theme, as there is a need to discuss how the mental health of teachers at this stage of Education is related to their teaching work. To this end, the objective was to investigate the mental health of Early Childhood Education teachers at a public school in Pinheiro – MA. Therefore, to achieve this objective, it was initially necessary to carry out a brief literature review on the subject. To then carry out empirical research, using as data collection instruments a semi-structured interview and the assessment of knowledge, which would be applied to 4 Early Childhood Education teachers, but which, due to the withdrawal of one of them, was applied only to 3 teachers. The results obtained indicate the extreme importance of thinking about teachers' mental health and seeking measures to preserve it, since there is not just a single factor that leads to their mental illness, but a series of factors that corroborate the emergence of consequences, which at the same time, they compromise teaching professional life. From this perspective, due to the relevance that this professional has and his enormous contribution to children's Education, seeking to know their understanding of the topic and the current state of their mental health requires giving them a voice and listening to their statements. Thus, it is concluded that as new research emerges on the topic, this professional and his health become more prominent. It is not enough to just present the data, it is necessary to open a debate where the main part is the Early Childhood Education teachers themselves.