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Health promotion / wellness / psychosocial |
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Offers a series of information on workplace health issues including stress, work-life balance, violence in the workplace, substance abuse and bullying. |
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Source: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) |
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Best advice on stress risk management in the workplace: part 1 |
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Shows how stress and the costs associated with it can be identified and managed in the workplace. Examines organizational sources of stress and the risks to mental and physical health, and safety. Includes overheads to use for presentations. |
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Source: Health Canada |
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Best advice on stress risk management in the workplace: part 2 |
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Shows how stress and the costs associated with it can be identified and managed in the workplace. Examines organizational sources of stress and the risks to mental and physical health, and safety. Includes overheads to use for presentations. |
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Source: Health Canada |
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How does employment affect mental health? |
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Briefly discusses how unemployment can lead to mental health problems and provides suggestions on how employers can create mentally healthy workplaces. Prepared by the Canadian Mental Health Association (National Office). |
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Source: Canadian Health Network (CHN) |
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Workplace stress: general |
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Answers questions on stress, good versus bad stress, common stressors at work, health effects, trouble signs, and how to cope with stress. |
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Source: Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) |
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What is workplace stress and what can be done about it? |
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Answers questions on workplace stress and what employees and employers can do to reduce stress. Prepared by the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety. |
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Source: Canadian Health Network (CHN) |
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Stress in the workplace |
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Discusses stress in the workplace, contributing factors, strategies for coping, and suicidal behaviours in the workplace. |
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Source: Centre for Suicide Prevention |
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Bereavement in the workplace |
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Looks at issues related to workplace bereavement and offers some strategies and resources for helping staff members who have been bereaved. |
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Source: Centre for Suicide Prevention
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Long working hours and health |
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Examines the relationship between long working hours, depression, and changes in health behaviours such as alcohol consumption, smoking, and exercise. Based on data from the National Population Health Survey. |
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Source: Statistics Canada |
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Work stress and health |
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Discusses the stress experienced by Canadian workers. Looks at relationship between job strain, job insecurity, physical demands, low co-worker support, and four health outcomes: migraine, work injury, high blood pressure, and psychological distress. |
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Source: Statistics Canada |
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Training and tools |
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Provides information about tools and training programs for workplaces to address issues of mental health and mental illness in the workplace. |
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Source: Canadian Mental Health Association, Ontario Division (CMHA OD) |
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Mental health works |
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Provides employers and employees with information about mental health issues in the workplace. Covers topics such as early identification, prevention, accommodation, legal rights and responsibilities. Includes news, fact sheets, resource lists, and information on publications and services. |
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Source: Canadian Mental Health Association, Ontario Division |
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Depression in the workplace |
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Describes the nature, scope, and signs of depression to help people in the workplace gain a better understanding and recognition of this illness. Outlines the consequences of undiagnosed depression, and how to seek help for yourself or someone you know. |
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Source: Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) |
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Reducing job stress |
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Defines job stress, describes symptoms and causes, and outlines steps organizations can take to reduce stress and develop a job stress reduction program. |
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Source: Health Care Health and Safety Association of Ontario (HCHSA) |
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Mental health and substance use at work : perspectives from research and implication for leaders |
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Synthesizes what is known about the impact of mental health and addiction on the Canadian economy. Discusses interrelationships among workers' lives, workplace, and mental health. Describes factors which affect both mental health and productivity, and strategies for reducing negative impacts. |
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Source: Global Business and Economic Roundtable on Addiction and Mental Health |
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Enough workplace stress: organizing for change |
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Describes workplace stress, its causes and consequences for workers, and health and safety hazards. Suggests actions, solutions, and strategies to eliminate workplace stress. |
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Source: Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) |
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Reducing occupational stress: an introductory guide for managers, supervisors and union members |
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Offers a practical guide for healthy organizational change. Identifies the major features of healthy organizational change and suggests how to develop strategies. Includes examples of organizational change efforts. |
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Source: Job Stress Network |
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Roundtable roadmap to mental disability management in 2004-05. The business years for mental health |
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Outlines practical suggestions for facilitating an effective mental disability management program from governance to practices, protocols, and planning. |
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Source: Global Business and Economic Roundtable on Addiction and Mental Health |
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Global Business and Economic Roundtable on Addiction and Mental Health |
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Provides information, analysis and ideas concerning the linkage between business, the economy, mental health and work. Provides executives, managers, and supervisors information and advice on reducing the business and economic dollar costs of mental illness and addictions among employees and management. |
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Source: Global Business and Economic Roundtable on Addiction and Mental Health |
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Mental health at work…from defining to solving the problem |
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Offers a prevention tool kit to help employers and employees understand mental health issues and provide guidance on policies and programs to address mental health issues in the workplace. The first booklet defines occupational stress and describes the extent of the problem and its consequences for individuals and organizations. The second booklet discusses sources of occupational stress and propses methods to help reduce the negative impacts. The third volume describes the three possible levels of prevention and presents a strategic process for effectively preventing work-related mental health problems and practical tools for facilitating the initiation of action. Link requires pdf reader. |
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Source: Université Laval, Chair in Occupational Health and Safety Management
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BC Business and Economic Roundtable on Mental Health |
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Organization which supports mental health in the workplace. Web site offers information about the costs of mental illness and what employers can do to foster mentally healthy workplace. |
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Source: BC Business and Economic Roundtable on Mental Health |
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Organizational interventions and mental health in the workplace: a synthesis of approaches at the international level |
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This report summarizes knowledge relating to organizational intervention programs and strategies involving occupational mental health. The authors have defined a reference framework that requires that evidence of problems of stress exist before conducting workplace interventions. This approach necessitates the establishment of proof as to the presence of sources of stress and a clear description of these sources, the resulting symptoms, and the consequences of this stress, in order to propose and evaluate interventions likely to address the problem in its entirety.
According to this framework, sociotechnical type interventions, which emphasize objective changes to the environment and mainly to task design, would be advantageous. The other type of intervention (psychosocial) tends instead to act on the employee's perception of his environment, by means of strategies supporting participation, communication and social relationships, while reducing the ambiguity of roles, mitigating conflict, and increasing autonomy. For the authors, the research is still insufficient to formulate firm opinions about this second type of intervention.
The report contains many recommendations on the research necessary in this field, on the methodology and measurement of variables, on practice within organizations, and on the promotion of excellence in research. Researchers and practitioners will find that this document contains relevant information for promoting occupational mental health. |
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Source: Institut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et en sécurité du travail
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Workplace anti-stress guide |
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Describes the causes and effects of workplace stress and outlines personal and organizational strategies for its prevention and reduction. |
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Source: Hospital Employees' Union |
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