Articles tagged under ‘Psychological - other’

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• Navigating the counterintuitive road to recovery after musculoskeletal injury

  An article written for orthopaedic surgeons about what they can do to help patients’ recovery holds some interesting insights for all health professionals who work with injured workers.

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• EAST-ern medicine — how behavioural science can help people self-manage their health and wellbeing

  A guide about what drives our behaviour can help people living with long-term conditions and those who support them get started (and stay) on a journey of self-management. It can also help prevent long-term conditions from developing in the first place.

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• The fire and rescue perspective on PTSD

  Andrew McGarity of Fire and Rescue NSW speaks with Dr Mary Wyatt via video link about an initiative to foster early reporting and better management of PTSD and other mental health disorders in a high-pressure industry.

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• Webinar recording: Mediation v Litigation - Two part series

  Dispute resolution options in RTW and Industrial cases including a case study

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• Can you ‘teach’ workers to be more emotionally resilient?

  You may know someone like this at work: optimistic and resilient, they appear to bounce through challenges drawing on an internal strength that helps them work through problems they encounter at work.

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• Webinar recording: Improve mental health in your workplace

  An introduction to the Workplace Alliance and Beyondblue's workplace mental health initiative

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• Lifestyle Factors and RTW: Fatigue

  Fatigue is often the result of a lack of sleep, prolonged mental or physical work, or lengthy periods of stress or anxiety. Sound familiar?

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• Psychological Cases: prevention is better than the cure

  The workplace is a social environment. For many, this is one of the most enjoyable aspects of their job. For others, depending on the workplace, the negative impacts on their psychology can be enormous.

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• Workplace Nonchalance: who cares?

  Nonchalant employees are not unhappy. They're not disgruntled. They’re people who show up day after day and go through the motions.

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• Learned helplessness in RTW

  'Learned helplessness' is the idea that some people who experience repeated setbacks will eventually develop a passive response to problems. How can you help and understand injured workers who don't try and help themselves?

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• Mental Health: developing an action plan for your workplace - part 2

  Once your action plan has been developed, what are the next steps for implementation?

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• Role Summary: Psychologist

  Psychology is the study of the mind and associated behaviours. A psychologist's focus may be on either individuals or groups.

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• Role Summary: Families

  Families and friends play a vital part in the recovery of injured workers. They provide emotional support as well as physical assistance.

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• Webinar Recording: PTSD & Chronic Pain, Dr / Patient Communication

  In this webinar, Kerrie Shepherd, will present the learnings from the IASP Milan World Pain Congress on the interplay of PTSD and chronic pain.

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• Suicide and work injury

  New Australian research shows that workers with psychological injuries are not the only ones who may be at risk of suicide. Physical injury and long term compensation can lead to mental injury, and increased suicide risk.

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• Jokes, bullying and RTW

  Lara felt bullied by her case manager and colleagues when she returned to work - even when they were "just joking". Read her story to see how these attitudes very nearly jeopardised her recovery.

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• What you can't see...

  ...CAN hurt you. Having an internal injury that nobody sees can make rehabilitation far more difficult. We hear how one worker overcame poor treatment and took control of her own recovery.

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• The broad reach of suicide

  The burden of suicide in Australia is comparable with other major, better understood chronic diseases.

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• Survivng and thriving with difficult co-workers: The bully

  In this instalment of 'surviving and thriving' we look at the office bully, and how victims can best manage the situation while more decisive action is sought.

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• Stigma and mental illness

  What is stigma? What are some consequences of stigma? How might stigma manifest in the workplace? And what can you do about it?

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• Signs of suicide

  How to look out for and deal with signs of suicide in your workplace.

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• Bullying in Australian workplaces: Q&A

  Bullying is bad for workplace health and bad for RTW. How widespread is it, and how does it impact on the field?

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• Returning to work after depression

  RTW Matters speak with Clare Shann from beyondblue, the national depression initiative, about returning to work after depression.

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• Deanne's story part two: the secretary forced out of work by a common health condition.

  In Part Two of this series, RTW Matters interviews Deanne to discover why she feels angry and let down.

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• Taking Action to Improve Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace

  In a webinar for CIRPD, Dr Merv Gilbert, Adjunct Professor with the Centre for Applied Research in Mental Health and Addiction, pointed out that Freud believed love and work to be the cornerstones of our humanity.

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• We are the most important medicine

  Partnership is a fundamental element of the road to recovery.

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• Locating the presence of presenteeism

  Want to deal with presenteeism properly? Know what you're dealing with.

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• Opening the door to productive workers: Government policy, RTW and mental illness

  Simon Tatz, from the Mental Health Council of Australia, lays down the law about mental illness and inclusive RTW

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• UK's what, who and why of vocational rehab

  A look at the UK College of Occupational Therapists' new paper, "Vocational rehabilitation: what is it, who can deliver it and who pays?"

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• Rehabilitation between the yellow flags

  Prior to the onset of an injury a worker may often display a number of yellow flags, or warning signs, indicative of the injury occurring.

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• I swear it helped my pain — why the F-word feels so good when it hurts

  Swearing feels good — not just psychologically, it also helps us tolerate pain.

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• Exploring an AI-powered solution to long-term back pain

  We’re becoming more and more aware that traditional treatments for long-term back pain — like opioid medications and surgery — can be costly, ineffective or even risky. A new, alternative treatment approach is safe and effective.

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• Are there RTW differences for workers with psychological and musculoskeletal injuries?

  How different are the RTW experiences of workers with work-related psychological injuries and those with musculoskeletal injuries? And what can make these experiences more equal?

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• Employee Decision-Making about Disclosure of a Mental Health Disorder at Work - part 2

  Part two looks at the processes employees go through in weighing up the risks and benefits of disclosure, and the personal factors which come into play.

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• Overcoming PTSD

  What psychological treatments work for post traumatic stress disorder?

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• Mental illness and RTW: bridging the gap

  Collaboration between mental health and employment agencies assists return to work, but how do we foster collaboration?