BURNOUT SYNDROME IN HIGHER EDUCATION TEACHERS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Abstract

In Higher Education Teaching, physical and mental exhaustion, depression, feelings of incapacity and suicidal thoughts can be symptoms of Burnout Syndrome and are an increasingly emerging problem. During the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, teaching in Brazil underwent significant changes, impacting on the conditions for teaching work and on the teaching-learning process. The purpose of this article is to carry out a research on this disease during the Coronavirus in Brazil, considering its prevalence, risk factors for its development, the main causes during the pandemic, possible treatments and consequences for the teacher and the institution in which he works. . it is concluded that the intervention and control proposals are still subjective, which is influenced by the fact that the syndrome took a long time to be recognized as a disease and that most research still seeks to understand the proportions and characteristics of this condition.