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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 the longest hours in the Western world and around one quarter report that work frequently interferes with other activities in their l...
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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Workplace wellbeing
As you are reading this, one in six Australian workers will be experiencing a mental illness. Many others will be experiencing the initial signs of mental illness including insomnia, worry and fatigue.
Read more on Black Dog Institute website
Connecting with co-workers | Head to Health
The culture of a workplace is important for employee mental health. If you and your co-workers experience positive mental wellbeing at work, it can boost your mental health outside of work too.
Read more on Head to Health website
Get mentally fit in your workplace | Black Dog Institute
The mental health toolkit is a practical guide for Australian workers to assist them with understanding and managing common mental health issues in the workplace.
Read more on Black Dog Institute website
Information for employers - COPE
Centre of Perinatal Excellence
Read more on COPE - Centre of Perinatal Excellence website
Get Healthy At Work
Get Healthy at Work is a free workplace health promotion initiative that aims to reduce chronic disease risk among workers by helping them make small changes to their lifestyles and support businesses to create healthier workplace environments.
Read more on Get Healthy Information and Coaching Service website
Prevention and Early Intervention - National Mental Health Commission
In 2017, Deakin Health Economics was engaged by the Commission to produce a literature review and scoping study regarding mental health promotion and preve
Read more on National Mental Health Commission website
Young women's health and wellbeing | Women's Health Victoria
Read more on Women's Health Victoria website
Mental Health Checklist TINO : Tune In Not Out
You are worried
Read more on Tune In Not Out website
What does workplace bullying look like? | ReachOut Australia
What is classified as bullying in the workplace? Workplace bullying is behaviour that threatens your health and safety at work. Anyone can be a bully or a victim at a workplace, but it is also important to know who is responsible for stopping it. Learn more at ReachOut.com.
Read more on ReachOut.com website
Workplace cancer - Cancer Council Australia
Occupational cancers are those that occur due to exposure to carcinogenic agents in the workplace. From asbestos to welding fumes, learn more here
Read more on Cancer Council Australia website
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Workplace wellbeing
As you are reading this, one in six Australian workers will be experiencing a mental illness. Many others will be experiencing the initial signs of mental illness including insomnia, worry and fatigue.
Read more on Black Dog Institute website
Get mentally fit in your workplace | Black Dog Institute
The mental health toolkit is a practical guide for Australian workers to assist them with understanding and managing common mental health issues in the workplace.
Read more on Black Dog Institute website
Exercise and Improving Your Mental Wellbeing
It's a widely held view that exercise can improve mood and overall wellbeing, but what does the literature say? Cooney et al. (2013) completed a systematic review concluding that exercise was more effective in comparison to no treatment, or a comparator controlled intervention. Some say otherwise...
Read more on Ausmed Education website
Exercise and Improving Your Mental Wellbeing
It's a widely held view that exercise can improve mood and overall wellbeing, but what does the literature say? Cooney et al. (2013) completed a systematic review concluding that exercise was more effective in comparison to no treatment, or a comparator controlled intervention. Some say otherwise...
Read more on Ausmed Education website
Yarning about Quitting videos - Maternal Child & Family Health
These videos are a part of the Yarning about Quitting program. Yarning about Quitting is a blended learning package that aims to increase the capacity of health professionals to provide effective and culturally appropriate smoking cessation support to Aboriginal pregnant women and mothers.
Read more on NSW Health website
Stroke Care Management: Alien Hand Syndrome
A published Monash University study found that 70% of nurses surveyed reported being physically assaulted in the workplace. The challenge for nurses is that they are caring for patients who may be aggressive due to an acute or untreated medical condition such as dementia, delirium or brain injury.
Read more on Ausmed Education website
Trauma-informed information and resources
Diverse resources around trauma Informed Care & Practice, a strengths-based framework for supporting people accessing services (who may have trauma history).
Read more on Blue Knot Foundation website
Update on medicines for smoking cessation | Issue 4 | Volume 38 | Australian Prescriber
Persistent cigarette smokers usually have a nicotine addiction. This addiction has a chronic relapsing and sometimes remitting course and may persist...
Read more on Australian Prescriber website
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.
Read more on Australasian Menopause Society website
