Articles tagged under ‘Self efficacy / confidence’

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• Webinar recording — Why does return to work matter?

  Consultant Occupational Physician Dr David Beaumont unpacks the hidden complexities behind RTW challenges and introduces Positive Medicine — a transformative approach that treats the whole person, not just the workplace absence.

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• A new tool to help workers make a health disclosure decision

  An evidence-based tool called DCIDE can help people think through a decision to share personal information at work.

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• Small business, big support — a coaching service for mental wellness and business success

  Beyond Blue’s New Access for Small Business Owners service (NASBO) is providing valuable mental health support for small business owners struggling with the challenges brought about by work and personal pressures.

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• The power of tiny habits — how small, consistent actions can support injured or ill workers on their RTW journey

  By harnessing the science of tiny habits, injured or ill workers can make their RTW journey more manageable, sustainable and successful.

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• The power of words in health (Part 2) — changing the conversation about osteoarthritis

  Clinicians and people with knee osteoarthritis can shift the conversation about osteoarthritis from an ‘impairment-based‘ conversation to a ‘participatory-based’ one.

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• The power of words in health — changing the conversation about osteoarthritis (Part 1)

  How we talk about health profoundly impacts how we think and act when managing our well-being.

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• 10 common unhelpful beliefs about low back pain, and 10 facts to set us straight

  10 common and unhelpful myths about low back pain, and 10 facts that bust them.

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• RTW: from policy to practice. Is your organisation ready for change?

  Implementing evidence-based interventions to improve how we care for workers is not easy. Are there things we can do in our organisations to create the conditions that support ‘organisational readiness for change?

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• The power of choosing our mindset

  Tips to help develop a mindset that builds resilience and helps us deal with challenging situations.

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• Webinar recording: Wellbeing and Mental Health – Building inner resilience and supporting others in 2022 - Beyond Blue

  Small business owners have been doing it tough for a long time and statistics are demonstrating higher levels of psychological distress within this community.

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• 'I want to do that' — the importance of autonomy, competence and relatedness

  We all have 3 basic psychological needs that must be fulfilled if we are to do well and feel good at work. What are they?

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• ‘I can do that’ — how building self-efficacy can support workers return to work

  How to help build self-efficacy — tips for supporting a worker who may have lost confidence after being away from work.

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• Questioning the power of positivity

  Do positive expectations about RTW bring results, or do good prospects make injured workers feel more positive?

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• Webinar recording: Understanding and using "self-efficacy" in RTW

  Ollie Black presents on "Self Efficacy" - a person-level concept that impacts return to work.

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• Re-calibrating Resilience - test your resilience strengths

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• Prehabilitation: improving the results of surgery

  Prehabilitation is an approach to aid people recover from surgery and increase the likelihood of a good outcome.

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• Self-Management: training the treaters

  Self-management is a vital part of recovery from illness, but how can treaters be trained to encourage self-management in their patients?

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• Broken people from broken systems

  For many injured workers, the greatest challenge is not the extent of their injuries but the depth of their despair.

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• The power of learned optimism

  How 'learned optimism' can improve return to work outcomes: Breaking down Theo Feldbrugge's webinar presentation.

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• Who's the boss?

  The health and wellbeing of people with chronic illness improves when they become 'self-managers'. Are there lessons here for RTW?

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• Believe and You Will Cope

  'Self-efficacy' is more than just an odd-sounding word. Superdoc explains who needs self-efficacy skills - and why it's in your interest to help develop them.

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• The power of storytelling

  The impact of 'patient narrative' - first-hand stories of illness and injury - shouldn't be underestimated. (Includes video footage.)

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• Superdoc (8) - Back pain and the 'fear avoidance model'

  Our Superhero Superdoc is back on back pain and the importance of not being afraid of it.

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• SuperDoc (3) - On the importance of listening - and saying no.

  Super Doc gives a super-spiel about the importance of listening - and saying no

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• Frustrated by "victims"?

  People who believe they've been treated unfairly have lower functional ability than those who think that they've had a fair go. How can you get them past the victim mentality?

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• Teaching WorkCover claimants to sell themselves

  In pain, low in confidence, and down at heart: it can be a hard slog to get back into the workforce. Here's the juice on helping people find a job.

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• Sunny side down

  Is it possible to have too much optimism? And what's the best approach to take when you're confronted by someone else's pessimism?

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• Sunny side up

  What is optimism? How is it good for health? When is it wise, in professional life, to get your grin on?

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• Dealing with the victim mentality

  In response to a reader's questions, our resident Occ Phys explains how to encourage a proactive approach to return to work.

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• Quick Guide: Self efficacy

  Not every injured or ill worker has the "I think I can" attitude of the Little Engine That Could. But you can get them there!

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• Fact sheet: PSYCHO WHAAT? PSYCHOSOCIAL!

  The most common barriers to RTW are "psychosocial". Getting to know them makes it possible to overcome them.

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• What's more painful than chronic pain? Chronic pain in 'The System'

  Workers' comp and RTW systems can exacerbate chronic pain, but as Coralie Wales from Chronic Pain Australia explains, that's not the end of the story...

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• Motivation - Part Five

  A look at self-efficacy and how it can be maximised in patients.

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• Motivation: Part one

  The first instalment in a six-part series of articles on Motivation in rehabilitation.

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• Complacency in return to work programs does not produce good outcomes

  An injured worker, with knee injuries and heart condition, is made redundant and has to deal with the concern that no other employer will take him on.

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• From fighting cancer to fostering Cancer Voices

  Cancer survivor John Stubbs talks about his journey back to good health and back to work, in a hugely important role.

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• We are the most important medicine

  Partnership is a fundamental element of the road to recovery.

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• Time to get active — Why passive treatments fall short for persistent pain

  Research shows that focusing on active self-management rather than passive pain relief can help people with chronic pain achieve lasting improvements in function and well-being.

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• To conceal or reveal a mental health issue at work? That is the question for many injured or ill workers

  A tool to help someone decide whether or not to disclose a mental health issue helped unemployed people find and retain employment. Does that study offer insights for the workers’ comp industry?

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• Self-managing pain — websites and other tools for healthcare and RTW practitioners

  Not everyone with persistent pain conditions can access specialised pain services. How effective are websites as a tool to help them manage their pain?

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• Introducing ROSES

  In the search to find a screening tool to assist workers with MSDs and common mental health problems, will an Orebro by any other name smell as sweet?

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• Research short: link found between pain symptoms and confidence

  Believing that you can cope with whatever life brings you has a positive impact on pain symptoms - and there are ways of assessing coping confidence at work.

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• Empowering workers to stay in their original employment.

  Based on the rationale that it is easier to keep a job than to find a new one, the new focus of vocational rehabilitation for workers with chronic conditions is empowering the worker to stay in their original position.

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• A chicken and the egg problem: Self efficacy, sickness absence and return to work

  If you feel you can cope with a difficult situation will you get back to work earlier?

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• Self efficacy, sickness absence and return to work

  If you feel you can cope with a difficult situation will you get back to work earlier?

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• Taking control of arthritis

  Psychosocial approaches to managing arthritis help sufferers make the most of medical care.

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• Non-surgical treatment options for chronic back pain

  Exercise, behavioural and multimodal programs: What works for RTW and why?

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• School of (back) pain!

  Brief, face-to-face education works best for chronic LBP rehabilitation

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• Locus of control and vocational rehabilitation

  A sense of control over the situation improves return to work outcomes.