In a previous article for SecEd, I explained how conversations should take place within school to ensure that you genuinely support and help your staff to recover from a period of poor mental health (Sayer, 2020).
In my experience, the worry that many line managers have is that asking a staff member about absence or competency within the classroom due to poor mental health will mean that A) the staff member will have an uncontrollable emotional outburst and have to go home or to the doctors or B) they will somehow make the situation worse by saying the wrong thing.
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