Depressão e o impacto na prática docente em professores do ensino médio da rede estadual de ensino em Fortaleza (CE)

Abstract

In this article, we bring data from a study carried out with high school teachers at a state school in Fortaleza (CE) about depression and its relation with the teaching practice. This article sought to analyze if there is a relation between teaching work and the onset of depressive disorder in high school teachers from the state public school in Fortaleza. As depression is a problem predominantly investigated by Psychology, in our research, with a qualitative approach, we did a didactic transposition of the terms of the evaluation instruments for Education. Twenty-six teachers who composed our sample participated in the study. We used the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) as an analysis tool, as well as a socio-demographic questionnaire. The results point to the psycho emotional illness of teachers, being the teaching exercise an unhealthy work activity that presents predictors for the development of mental disorders.