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Mental health first aid in the workplace

| Mental Health First Aid, Employee Assistance Programs, Workplace Mental Health

How to help a colleague who is distressed If you feel concerned about a colleague’s emotional wellbeing it’s a good idea to know a bit about mental health first aid. When a colleague is distressed or showing signs of a mental health crisis, it can be tricky knowing the best way to handle it, particularly in the workplace. Mental health first aid is a good starting point for helping someone in a mental health crisis. Good mental health is crucial to

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Critical Incident | Workplace Trauma Counselling Brisbane

| Employee Assistance Programs

How to Respond to Workplace Critical Incidents 10 tips for managers to support employees following workplace trauma It’s not every day that you face a traumatic incident in the workplace. When you are, it’s hard to know how best to support your employees. What is a critical incident? A critical incident may involve a death in the workplace, a suicide, a serious injury, sexual assault, severe verbal abuse or armed hold-ups. Employees may be confronted with a situation that causes

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Social Anxiety Disorder | Social Phobia Treatment Brisbane

| Anxiety

Do you have Social Anxiety Disorder? The signs, symptoms and treatment options for social phobia Do you feel sick when you enter a crowded room? Dread being approached for a chat in the workplace? Invent excuses to avoid social gatherings? If this sounds like you, it’s possible you have social anxiety disorder. If you’re like most people, you probably feel nervous in social situations where you could be judged by others. For example, meeting your partner’s family for the first

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Mindfulness for New Mothers

| Postnatal Depression, Anxiety, Children, Stress

Mindfulness can help new mothers to cope… The birth of a baby is momentous and joyful on many levels. However for many mothers it can also be overwhelming and stressful as they learn the ropes of looking after a newborn baby. There is also the process of adjusting to the loss of pre-baby freedom as women find themselves more restrained by the responsibilities of looking after a baby. Loneliness, monotony and tiredness due to interrupted sleep can lead to feelings

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8 Tips for Helping Children Through Grief and Bereavement

| Child Psychology

Bereavement Counselling for Children… Helping children to cope with the death of someone close to them can be difficult and upsetting, especially when you may also be struggling to cope with your own grief in reaction to the loss. The way children react to death is affected by several factors including the age of the child, their temperament and personality, how well they manage their own negative emotions, and how they are affected by the reactions of others around them.

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Anxiety & Emotional Eating: Breaking the Link

| Anxiety, Stress

Know the Difference between your emotional and physical hunger People with anxiety often report that they it causes them to overeat or binge eat – a case of emotional eating. Of course, this is an unhealthy coping strategy that is best avoided and can be with the right information and strategies. Overeating and binging tends to make people feel regret, guilt, or shame. Over time it can cause weight gain, which then is an additional or heightened source of more anxiety,

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Lost that loving feeling? Help for couples.

| Mental Health First Aid, Relationships

Does this kind of relationship sound familiar to you? Jeff and Julie had been married for 15 years and had three children aged between 12 and 7 years old.  Jeff and Julie rarely spoke to each other about their frustrations, resentments or hurt. Neither did they demand attention, care or affection from each other. They ate family meals together, coordinated the pickups and the drop-offs for their children’s activities, and went away on a family holiday every year. Over the

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Should My Child See a Psychologist?

| Child Psychology, Children

As a parent, how do you know when it’s time to get professional help for a child or teenager who is anxious, depressed or angry beyond what you’d expect? Do you take the advice of your elderly neighbour who has raised 5 kids of her own (so she must know everything?). Do you complete multiple on-line quizzes to compare your child’s behaviour to others (even though the results may not be accurate?) Making the decision to take your child to see a

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Helping Children with Exam Stress

| Child Psychology, Children

As children across Australia in Grades 3,5,7 and 9 sit down to start NAPLAN tests today, there may be some who are feeling a bit stressed or worried about it. Parents can play an important role in identifying exam stress in their children and helping their children to cope with this and do their best. Noticing the signs of exam stress Often children show signs of exam stress more through their behaviour rather than their words. Signs of stress to

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Catastrophising: The disaster zone of your mind

| Anxiety, Mental Health First Aid

For some people it can feel like each day is made up of one impending disaster after another. They constantly expect things to go drastically wrong and are often making safety plans to deal with disasters that haven’t happened yet. It is a stressful and exhausting way to live and often leads to problems with anxiety and depression. Learn 3 simple strategies to help you manage catastrophising thoughts and break free from the disaster zone of your mind. How do

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