Articles tagged under ‘PsychoSocial’

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• Workplace Incivility: where are your manners?

  Incivility is being rude, discourteous and showing a lack of regard for others. The behaviour harms the target, whether intentionally or unintentionally. It may also occur in the cyberspace, such as not replying to email or sending terse emails.

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• Role Summary: Psychologist

  Psychology is the study of the mind and associated behaviours. A psychologist's focus may be on either individuals or groups.

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• Case Study: Let the client help you help them

  Each client comes with their own unique history, personality and circumstances.

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• Injustice in return to work: part 2

  A sense of unfairness may lead to worse health outcomes for injured workers.

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• Injustice in return to work: part 1

  Workers' compensation systems can leave clients feeling betrayed. This sense of unfairness may hinder a client's return to work.

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• Video: It's time to say good-bye to brain drain

  Rob Aurbach talks about the neuroplasticity, and the impact of negative messages on pain and return to work.

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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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• Video webinar: Improving Return to Work Motivation with Optimism

  Theo Feldbrugge discusses the impact of optimism / pessimism on return to work.

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• Decision-making justice Part 2. Getting it right. A MUST READ for Claims Managers

  How you cannot afford to get it wrong, and how you can get it right.

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• Decision-making justice Part 1. The issues. A MUST READ for claims staff and decision makers

  A good decision making process is worth its weight in platinum

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• Emotional resilience: 2

  This second of a two-part series investigates identifying pessimistic thinking in employees, and improving optimism and emotional resilience in the workplace.

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• Emotional resilience: 1

  This first of a two-part series investigates the negative health and work effects of pessimism, and how fostering emotional resilience improves wellness and business outcomes.

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• Costs of 'job strain' related depression

  What is job strain? How is it linked to depression? And what are the associated costs? New Australian research has the answers...

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• Flagging the obstacle course of bad outcomes

  From the hot tubs of New Zealand to the bread and butter of a RTW Coordinator's work.

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• Sophie's choices (a case study)

  A rehab provider who addresses the human impact of injury restarts stalled RTW for a disempowered young worker.

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• What's work got to do...got to do with it?

  Returning to work is even harder if the work itself feels meaningless. What makes a job meaningful?

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• Things have gotta change: back pain and why our thinking is all wrong

  When it comes to back pain, we don't have the right vocabulary - and we need it. The right words can inform the correct way of thinking.

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• Different states of whiplash

  Epidemiological studies show that whiplash rates vary enormously between jurisdictions. Why?

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• Are you having a laugh?

  The benefits of humour in the workplace.

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• Video presentation: Psychosocial ergonomics

  Job design includes the physical layout, AND how jobs fit the person's psyche. Deadlines, flexible work practices, control, and workplace culture need to be addressed to prevent and manage physical and mental health problems.

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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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• Rehab Providers a mystery to you?

  This Q&A for employers covers the Who, What, When and How of Rehabilitation Providers

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• Discrimination, harassment and RTW

  How can employers avoid real (or perceived) discrimination and harassment during the RTW process?

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• More than medical

  Some people have a harder time managing their injury and returning to work than others. Are medical issues usually responsible?

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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 do RTW Professionals need to know about CBT?

  The basics of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and how it can be used to resolve difficult RTW cases.

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• Manage people, not musculoskeletal symptoms

  Ignoring the non-physical causes of musculoskeletal problems leads to very poor outcomes in this all too familiar case study.

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• Conflict Cookie #3: Managing conflict

  It's a waste to sweep cookie crumbs under the carpet, and the same goes for conflict. Don't ignore workplace conflict: manage it.

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• A flag is a flag is a flag

  Everyday words can take on different meanings when used by medical practitioners, but to what effect?

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• Getting back to work: an interview with John Stubbs.

  Interview with Cancer Voices Australia executive director and cancer survivor John Stubbs.

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• The carpet-layer made good

  'Chris' was a carpet layer who worked in a small suburban firm.

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• When return to work works best

  RTW Matters interviewed 57-year-old 'Sally', who went straight back to work after sustaining a shoulder injury. We learn what helped - and what didn't.

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• Nursing a healthy return to work journey

  Take 10 factors for RTW success and 10 for failure. Click on the ones you want to achieve - or remedy - and uncover the clues!

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• DON'T follow the leader: Cranky pants Rudd illustrates the importance of a healthy work / life balance

  A little disrespect goes a long way. Our work-obsessed PM takes time out mid flight to illustrate why we all need to work, rest and play.

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• Importance of preventitive stress management

  Early detection and intervention are the keys when it comes to work-related stress.

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• The disability support pension process: unnecessarily stressful?

  Qualified assessors the key to determining disability pension eligibility.

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• How do social functioning, social relationships and compensation influence RTW?

  Understanding the factors that influence return to work assists in effective rehabilitation.

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• Research short: Armed against arm pain

  Reducing repetitive work is not the only option to consider when attempting to accommodate arm pain in the workplace.

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• Job control, job demand and workplace health

  Changes in psychosocial aspects of work affect employee health and wellbeing

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• Distress, ergonomic exposure, smoking and recurrent back bother

  A look at the workplace factors associated with repeat visits to back pain clinics

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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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• Fear, expectation and back pain - the evidence

  Knowing what psychosocial factors affect recovery from low back pain can help target employee interventions

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• Back pain and pessimism: A vicious cycle-The evidence

  Pessimistic beliefs about back pain can prolong suffering and prevent proper treatment

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• Despair and low back pain: Connecting as a starting point-The evidence

  People with chronic low back pain can lose their sense of control over life, a major demotivating factor

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• Predicting and preventing long-term disability

  Recognising the risk factors for long term disability can help employers reduce the compensation burden

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• The simple way to predict RTW outcomes? Ask!

  A short survey can predict a worker's RTW outcomes

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• Non-surgical treatment options for chronic back pain

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