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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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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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Mental illness & the workplace
Managers and employers have an important role in supporting workers with a mental illness
Read more on SANE Australia website
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...
Read more on SANE Australia website
Get Healthy At Work
Get Healthy at Work is a NSW Health service that aims to improve the health of working adults.
Read more on Get Healthy Information and Coaching Service website
Young women's health and wellbeing | Women's Health Victoria
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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.
Read more on myVMC – Virtual Medical Centre website
Mental Health Checklist TINO : Tune In Not Out
You are worried
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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.
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Spotlight on sexual harassment in the workplace | Women's Health Victoria
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Families, friends & carers
Mental illness affects around 20% of Australians every year, but it is treatable. This factsheet answers commonly-asked questions about the effects of...
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How Fear of Failure Can Affect Your Health | Ausmed
It is easy to feel inadequate or afraid of failing, particularly in the workplace. However, the constant stress caused by these fears can be physically and psychologically detrimental. Learning to understand anxiety and its physiology is crucial in getting it under control.
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...
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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.
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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).
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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...
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Retraining the Amygdala | Ausmed
In my final unit of Master’s study, I have become increasingly aware of the important role that the amygdala plays in anxiety-reduction. The healthcare environment can be a stressful place and nurses are frequently faced with time constraints, ethical dilemmas, and a need to perform under pressure.
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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.
Read more on Australasian Menopause Society website
