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Support: Dealing with Stress in the Workplace
Recruitment and Retention Toolkit
Dealing with Stress in the Workplace 2.10.0
The Impact of Stress on Retention: The Stress Factor 2.10.2.0
Want to Reduce Stress and Burnout in Behavioral Health Workers? How to Get There Checklist [2.10.2.f
Working Smarter, Not Harder [2.10.2f 17]
Working Smarter, Not Harder [2.10.2f 17]
Conducting a Stress Audit [2.10.2f 1]
Work Positive Auditing Organizational Stress [2.10.2f 2]
How to Use the Work Positive Resources in your Organization [2.10.1d1]
Self-Help Tool Finder [2.10.2f 3]
Schedule of Recent Experiences [2.10.2f 4]
Stress Diary: Tool Template [2.10.2f 5]
A Stress SWOT Tool [2.10.2f 6]
Dr. Rahe's Life Changes Stress Test [2.10.2f 7]
The Realistic Job Preview as a Recruitment Intervention [2.2.1]
The Realistic Job Preview and Employee Orientation Programs [2.10.2f 8]
Employee Orientation Samples [2.4]
Support for Professional Development [2.10.2f 10]
Support for Career Development [2.10.2f 11]
Flexible Working Conditions [2.10.2f 12]
Management Training [2.10.2f 13]
Job Redesign [2.10.2f 14]
Analyze the Selected Job Position Quick Tool [2.1.0.g]
Write an Accurate Job Description Quick Tool [2.1.0.h]
Recognition and Rewards [2.10.2f 15]
Recognition Intervention Strategies [2.5]
Mentoring and Clinical Supervision Programs [2.10.2f 16]
Mentoring: An Age Old Strategy for a Rapidly Expanding Field, a What, Why, and How [2.10.1c19]
Clinical Supervision from the Provider’s Guide on How to Use Core Competencies in Behavioral Health
Working Smarter, Not Harder [2.10.2f 17]
Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle [2.10.2f 18]
Maintaining Realistic Expectations and Beliefs [2.10.2f 19]
Mentor and Clinical Supervisor [2.10.2f 20]
Stress and Burnout Check-up Tools for Frontline Workers [2.10.2f 21]
Stress and Burnout Check-up Tool for Managers and Supervisors [2.10.2f 22]
Online Job Satisfaction Assessment [2.10.2f 23]
National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction (NCETA)
The following is an excerpt from
Stress and Burnout: A Prevention Handbook for the Alcohol and Other Drugs Workforce
,
by Natalie Skinner and Anne Roach from National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction (NCETA), Flinders University: Adelaide, Australia. The full Stress and Burnout handbook can be found
Here
or through a search request
Here
.
In many jobs within the health and human services professions, the individual has some degree of control over the scheduling of their everyday work activities. Strategies to help manage a demanding workload include:
[1]
Setting realistic goals and recognizing the value of small achievements and steps towards a longer-term goal. For example, setting a goal of spending 2 hours with client X exploring a particular issue is more realistic and achievable than the goal of “helping client X improve their life.”
Scheduling regular rest breaks or a “time out.” Even small breaks can be valuable for stress reduction (e.g., scheduling 5-minute breaks between clients, leaving the office during lunch breaks).
Scheduling daily activities to include a mixture of high and low stress tasks. For example, schedule a session with a difficult client just before your lunch break or intersperse stressful activities with more mundane tasks, such as paperwork.
[1]
Maslach, C. (1982).
Burnout: The cost of caring.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
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Introduction: Dealing with Stress in the Workplace
The Frustrated Employees: Who They Are 2.10.1.0
The Impact of Stress on Retention: The Stress Factor 2.10.2.0
Stress at Work [2.10.2.a]
The Impact of Stress on Behavioral Health Retention [2.10.2.b]
The Challenges of the AOD Working Environment [2.10.2.c]
Behavioral Health Management and Supervision [2.10.2.d]
Key Strategies for Reducing Stress [2.10.2.e]
Want to Reduce Stress and Burnout in Behavioral Health Workers? How to Get There Checklist [2.10.2.f
Conducting a Stress Audit [2.10.2f 1]
Work Positive Auditing Organizational Stress [2.10.2f 2]
How to Use the Work Positive Resources in your Organization [2.10.1d1]
Self-Help Tool Finder [2.10.2f 3]
Schedule of Recent Experiences [2.10.2f 4]
Stress Diary: Tool Template [2.10.2f 5]
A Stress SWOT Tool [2.10.2f 6]
Dr. Rahe's Life Changes Stress Test [2.10.2f 7]
The Realistic Job Preview as a Recruitment Intervention [2.2.1]
The Realistic Job Preview and Employee Orientation Programs [2.10.2f 8]
Employee Orientation Samples [2.4]
Support for Professional Development [2.10.2f 10]
Support for Career Development [2.10.2f 11]
Flexible Working Conditions [2.10.2f 12]
Management Training [2.10.2f 13]
Job Redesign [2.10.2f 14]
Analyze the Selected Job Position Quick Tool [2.1.0.g]
Write an Accurate Job Description Quick Tool [2.1.0.h]
Recognition and Rewards [2.10.2f 15]
Recognition Intervention Strategies [2.5]
Mentoring and Clinical Supervision Programs [2.10.2f 16]
Mentoring: An Age Old Strategy for a Rapidly Expanding Field, a What, Why, and How [2.10.1c19]
Clinical Supervision from the Provider’s Guide on How to Use Core Competencies in Behavioral Health
Working Smarter, Not Harder [2.10.2f 17]
Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle [2.10.2f 18]
Maintaining Realistic Expectations and Beliefs [2.10.2f 19]
Mentor and Clinical Supervisor [2.10.2f 20]
Stress and Burnout Check-up Tools for Frontline Workers [2.10.2f 21]
Stress and Burnout Check-up Tool for Managers and Supervisors [2.10.2f 22]
Online Job Satisfaction Assessment [2.10.2f 23]
Introduction: Compassion Fatigue and Burnout [2.10.3.0]
Reality Check on Frustration, Stress, Compassion Fatigue, and Burnout [2.10.g]
Additional Resources for Dealing with Stress in the Workplace 2.10.ef