Authors Hennig and Keller (1996) divide strategies for coping with stress to professional area,
private relationships, life attitude and health. According to authors, there are three bases for stress
prevention: 1) decrease of stress situations throughout the work day; 2) reduction of emotional excitement
appearing together with stress and 3) change of way of dealing with stress situations, which the individual
can’t influence. In the context of above mentioned an effective method for coping with stress load in
teacher’s profession can be considered the proactive coping.