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Mental Health First Aid: The Critical Skill Set Every Workplace Needs

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It’s standard practice to have multiple employees in every organization qualified in first aid so they can attend to physical injuries until professional medical help arrives. However, the same consideration is seldom extended toward mental stress and strain—otherwise known as mental health first aid—and that needs to change.

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Never Broken: How Singer-Songwriter Jewel Became a Mental Health Advocate

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It’s hard to imagine Jewel—full name Jewel Kilcher—wrote it when she was just 17, two years after leaving an unstable home environment, moving into her own cabin and then leaving Alaska to study operatic voice at Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan. Philosophy is dead unless we can figure out how to act on it.”

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Work Phobic Anxiety In The Workplace Is A Real Issue; Here’s How To Navigate It

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Mental health awareness has helped to reduce the stigma surrounding mental health conditions, such as anxiety. Work can precipitate anxiety “in previously healthy young workers,” according to the academic medical journal Psychological Medicine. . Here’s how to navigate anxiety in the workplace .

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How To Design Impactful Offices? Prioritize ESG Goals

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A myriad of certification systems can make it difficult to compare the health and environmental properties of building materials. This phase includes a checklist that prompts our designers to think about how they can incorporate existing materials into a project. The process needed to be simpler.

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How to Volunteer Abroad (and Great Organizations to Explore)

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That can involve teaching, conservation projects, building homes, providing health care support or any of the other many options. Before volunteering abroad, you may be trained on how to do a task. There’s a big difference between teaching, building homes, providing medical care and supporting wildlife conservation.

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Unlock Your Hidden Benefits

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EAPs provide rapid and near real-time support for a broad number of needs including mental health, substance abuse, stress, family issues and even legal advice. . If they do know their company provides an EAP, it’s unlikely they understand the extent of the services that are included and how to access them. . What is an EAP? .

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Feel Guilty for Taking a Sick Day? You’re Not Alone, but It Shouldn’t Be the Norm

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According to a 2022 study that appeared in the Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences across four public schools in Nicaragua, teachers often work while ill because economically, they have to. In a 2022 Switzerland study , nearly 30% of primary care providers surveyed had skipped using sick time, despite how poorly they were feeling.

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