Educational Materials: Psychosocial Supports in the Workplace
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| Coping Tips for Responders
West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources |
In addition to basic information about stress and coping with stress, fact sheet offers helpful tips to families of response workers. |
| Coping with Swine Flu Fear: Managing the Emotional Consequences Extreme Behavioral Risk Management (XBRM) |
Prepared as a fact sheet, useful resource for employers/ employees to aid in coping with likely emotional and behavioral consequences of the novel H1N1 virus. |
| Managing Stress: Tips for Emergency and Disaster Response Workers Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration |
In order to best help others, pamphlet encourages responders to attend to their own and co-workers' stress responses to the demands of emergency work. |
| Overwhelmed by Workplace Stress? You're Not Alone American Psychological Association Help Center |
This article identifies effects of workplace stress on relationships and physical health. |
| Psychological First Aid for First Responders
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration |
Pamphlet provides first responders information on how to convey safety and calm to those they serve and thereby also reduce their own stress levels. |
| Psychological First Aid Provider Care -
Appendix C from the Psychological First Aid Field Operations Guide 2nd Edition National Child Traumatic Stress Network and the National Center for PTSD |
Field guide appendix provides pertinent information for all pandemic flu responders to consider for promoting and sustaining resilience. |
| Stress at Work
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health |
A federal job stress research program, providing multiple references, links and resources to materials focused on reducing stress in the workplace. |
| Stress in the Workplace
American Psychological Association |
This article offers suggestions on logical steps to take to protect your health due to work-related stressful situations. |
| Stress Management for Health Care Providers
Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress |
Fact sheet provides helpful suggestions for health care providers/organizations to employ to mitigate the stressors of their unique responder role. |
| Texas Guidance for Clinicians: Stress Management Texas Department of State Health Services |
Web page targets medical professionals and first responders, addresses how to maintain good self-care practices throughout the multiple phases of a pandemic. |
| Tips for Managing and Preventing Stress: A Guide for Emergency Response and Public Safety Workers Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration |
Guide offers strategies for both workers and organizations to anticipate stressors and shape responses in order to better manage work-related stress difficulties. |
| Work Related Stressors Leader's Guide for Managing Personnel in Distress AFMS Public Site, US Air Force Medical Service |
Web page provides overview of military personnel duty stress and the role of leadership in addressing the issue. |