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Workplace mental health
Your workplace can have a positive or negative impact on your mental health. Finding the right work-life balance can be difficult, but it might help different aspects of your mental health and wellbeing.
Workplace mental health can be affected by a range of issues, including work-related stress, workplace bullying and work-life balance.
The pages below contain information and resources on how your mental health can be affected at work, including strategies for staying well.
Work-life balance
Australians work among the longest hours in the developed world. But good work-life balance is essential to your health and mental wellbeing.
Workplace bullying
Workplace bullying can be physical or mental and the behaviour directed against the victim can also be threatening or demeaning.
Work-related stress
Too much stress at work can affect you both professionally and personally. Understand how stress can affect you and how you can deal with it.
Sexual harassment
Sexual harassment can impact mental health, lower self-esteem and cause fear, depression and stress. It's common in the workplace - and illegal.
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Mental health | Safe Work Australia
Work-related mental disorders (also known as psychological injuries) have become a major concern in Australian workplaces.
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Workplace wellbeing information and resources - Black Dog Institute
Information and resources to help create mentally healthy working environments for managers, team members and all their families.
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Work-related fatigue and job design | Safe Work Australia
Two leaders in workplace fatigue discuss how sleep is critical to our physical and mental health, is fundamental to our ability to think and learn, and critical to maintaining safe and healthy workplaces.
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Mental illness & the workplace
Managers and employers have an important role in supporting workers with a mental health issue
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Legal rights & responsibilities
When someone is affected by mental illness, there may be no impact in the workplace at all. If they are able to carry out their work as usual, then it...
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Spotlight on sexual harassment in the workplace | Women's Health Victoria
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Why pursue an adult diagnosis | Autism Awareness Australia
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Get Healthy At Work
Get Healthy at Work is a NSW Health service that aims to improve the health of working adults.
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Workplace Health | myVMC
It is important to create and sustain an office environment that promotes good health to minimise absenteeism, high staff turnover, workers compensation claims and low morale.
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Exercise and Improving Your Mental Wellbeing | Ausmed
It is a widely held view that exercise can improve mood and overall wellbeing, but what does the literature say? From an overview of studies, it is apparent that exercise may show some promise in reducing depressive symptoms.
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Disability in the Workplace | Ausmed
Research suggests that the primary reason for underemployment is a persistent stigma of disability at a society-level, rather than any actual difficulties or restrictions to employing people with disabilities.
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Persistent cigarette smokers usually have a nicotine addiction. This addiction has a chronic relapsing and sometimes remitting course and may persist...
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Harm Reduction for Alcohol and Drug Consumption | Ausmed
Harm reduction aims to decrease the risk of negative effects associated with ongoing alcohol and drug use in those who are unable or unwilling to stop. The aim of harm reduction is to prevent harm to both the individual and the greater community as much as possible.
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Stroke Care Management: Alien Hand Syndrome | Ausmed
Alien Hand Syndrome may occur in patients recovering from a stroke. It is a phenomenon involving the involuntary motor activity of a limb in conjunction with the feeling of estrangement from that limb. Patients may speak about their limb in the third person and as having a will of its own.
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Recognising and Responding to Elder Abuse | Ausmed
Any person receiving care - regardless of age, gender or disability - should be able to access support without experiencing (or fearing) violence, abuse, neglect, exploitation or discrimination. Abusive behaviour of any kind towards older adults is a violation of basic human rights.
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Sexual difficulties in the menopause - Australasian Menopause Society
Sexual difficulties can be life-long or recently acquired, but they are a common presentation at the menopause.
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