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The following includes all the additional resources, downloads and podcasts highlighted in each module.
Module 1: What is good work?
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A really useful resource that gives much more information on building emotional resilience in your team
Business in the Community Business Action on Health Emotional Resilience Toolkit
A short guidance document produced by the Public Health Agency giving lots of information about how to promote positive health in your organisation and what the benefits of this might be: WorkWell: Promoting positive mental health at work: A guide for employers
An in-depth document detailing the Work Foundation’s research and perspective on ‘Good work’: Coats, David and Lehki, Rohit. "Good work" – Job quality in a changing economy. The Work Foundation, September 2008
An in-depth document detailing the Government’s commitment to, and policy on, improving health and work: Improving health and work: changing lives – The Government’s response to Dame Carol Black’s Review of the health of Britain’s working-age population. The Stationery Office, November 2008
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Module 2: What about me?
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A really useful resource to think use when planning to pro-actively manage your own wellbeing:
Business in the Community Skills, Health and Wellbeing Toolkit.
A readable and user friendly guide to positive health and wellbeing:
New Economics Foundation information on ‘Five Ways to Wellbeing’
The Food Standards Agency has created this great site giving lots of information and tips on how to eat for health
http://www.eatwell.gov.uk/healthydiet/eighttipssection/
Books
Here are some books that we recommend if you want to find out more about managing your stress triggers, or understanding more about changing your thinking through relaxation, cognitive behavioural therapy, mindfulness or meditation: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Dummies, by Rob Willson and Rhena Branch.
Mind over Mood: Cognitive Treatment Therapy Manual for Clients, by Christine Padesky and Dennis Greenberger.
The mindful way through depression, by Mark Williams, John Teasdale, Zindel Segal and Jon Kabat-Zinn.
Full Catastrophe Living, by Jon Kabat-Zinn.
The mindful path to self-compassion, by Christopher Germer.
Get out of your mind and into your life, by Steven Hayes and Spencer Smith.
The happiness trap, by Russ Harris.
Module 3: What can I do proactively?
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Business in the Community provides a toolkit on emotional resilience
Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development (CIPD) provide guidance for managers on management behaviours for preventing and reducing stress and also on management behaviours for conflict management
Health and Safety Executive (HSE) provides a self-test questionnaire designed to allow managers to explore the extent to which they show the management behaviours for preventing and reducing stress at work
www.hse.gov.uk/stress/mcit.htm
Health and Safety Executive (HSE) provides online learning materials for line managers to help them develop the skills required to prevent and reduce stress in their team
preventingstress.hse.gov.uk
Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development (CIPD) provide research reports providing the full details of the research programme that generated the ‘management competencies for preventing and reducing stress at work’ on which much of this module is based:
What does your organisation offer?
- Are there learning and development opportunities that would help?
- Does the HR team provide guidance and/or support?
- What other resources are available in-house to help in this area?
Module 4: Should I be concerned?
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Lots of useful information and resources on stress, particularly around work related stress:
Stress pages of the Health and Safety Executive website
For information on managing common mental health problems in the workplace
Shift
For general information on mental health
Mind
For information on symptoms and treatments for seasonal affective disorder
The Seasonal Affective Disorder Association
For more information on Obsessive Compulsive disorder
OCD-UK
For a wide variety of resources on wellbeing and mental health
BBC Headroom
For more information and support materials on depression
Depression alliance
A great site with lots of information about common mental health problems, particularly their impact on work
Centre for Mental Health
A great resource with an exhaustive list of mental health conditions, treatments and resources
Mental Health Foundation
A site offering lots of information and support around mental illness
Rethink
Module 5: What do I do now?
Additional references:
A really useful resource that gives much more information on building emotional resilience in your team:
Business in the Community Business Action on Health Emotional Resilience Toolkit
Health and Safety Executive (HSE) stress website (gives more information about the management standards for work-related stress and stress risk assessment)
www.hse.gov.uk/stress
Acas (the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service) provides a range of guides and resources to support managers in dealing with difficult people management issues, including conflict at work
www.acas.org.uk
Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development (CIPD) provide guidance for managers on management behaviours for preventing and reducing stress
www.cipd.co.uk/subjects/health/stress/_lnstrswrk.htm
and also on management behaviours for conflict management
www.cipd.co.uk/subjects/empreltns/general/_mngcnftwrk.htm
Healthy Working Lives (part of NHS Health Scotland) provides resources for exploring stress related problems
www.healthyworkinglives.com/advice/workplace-health-promotion/workplaceStress.aspx
What does your organisation offer?
- Are there learning and development opportunities that would help?
- Does the HR team provide guidance and/or support?
- What other resources are available in-house to help in this area?
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Module 6: Where does absence management fit in?
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CIPD provides guidance on the management behaviours required to support an employee returning to work following long-term sickness absence: TBC
There is a joint CIPD, Acas and HSE on-line tool on how to manage absence, available through the CIPD website (NB modules 3 and 4 in this resource provide useful information on managing short-term and long-term sickness absence respectively)
www.cipd.co.uk/subjects/hrpract/absence/absmantool.htm?IsSrchRes=1
HSE provides guidance on managing sickness absence
www.hse.gov.uk/sicknessabsence/index.htm
And a return to work questionnaire to help you discuss whether sickness absence is linked to the areas covered by the stress management standards
www.hse.gov.uk/stress/pdfs/returntowork.pdf
Acas provides guidance on absence management, handling the fit note, dealing with absence when it becomes a disciplinary matter and other related topics
www.acas.org.uk
The Government’s working for health website provides information about work and health, including a leaflet about the myths surrounding common health problems
www.workingforhealth.gov.uk/documents/work-health.pdf
And a range of other resources
www.workingforhealth.gov.uk
What does your organisation offer?
- Are there learning and development opportunities that would help?
- Does the HR team provide guidance and/or support?
- What other resources are available in-house to help in this area?