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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. After school, she moved to San Diego. This year, it’s estimated that the U.S.

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Mental Health Will Come Into Focus For Future Workplace Wellbeing Strategies

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Since the UK passed the Health and Safety at Work Act in 1974, employees have been nearly guaranteed reasonable protections from their organization. The law aims to reduce risk and increase safety provisions for anyone in relation to an organization, whether it’s employees or visitors coming into the office.

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How Discrimination in the Workplace Impacts Black Women’s Health & Well-Being

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Her manager, she said, would make sexualized jokes, resulting in what Watson felt was a hostile work environment. “It The experience took a toll on her mental health. She was put on medication and had to take a few weeks off from work. A trauma-like effect on Black women’s health For more than 15 years, Sierra Carter, Ph.D.,

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Trust-Building in Remote Work: The Synergy Between Telehealth And Employee Well-being

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In remote settings, employers often grapple with ensuring that their staff are in good health and well-being, especially as these factors directly influence productivity and engagement. An organization that actively invests in their health and well-being through cutting-edge healthcare solutions gains a competitive edge.

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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. There’s a big difference between teaching, building homes, providing medical care and supporting wildlife conservation. This is the heart of why people volunteer abroad. You’ll be immersed in a new culture.

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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. .

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