Mental Health in the Workplace – Everything You Need to Know
The cost of mental health problems to the economy in England have recently been estimated at a massive £105 billion. Treatment costs are also expected to double in the next…
Keys to Mental Resilience #5: Learning
This week, we are going to look at the fifth spoke in the wheel of building mental resilience: Learning Mental resilience can be thought of as a wheel travelling down…
Keys to Mental Resilience #4: Being Active
In previous blogs I considered three important spokes to the wheel of mental resilience: the importance of Human Connection, relaxation and assertiveness. This week I am going to consider how…
Keys to Mental Resilience #3: Assertiveness
In this blog post, I will continue looking at how to maintain good mental resilience by looking at the aspect of assertiveness. Assertiveness can be seen as another spoke on…
Keys to Mental Resilience #2: Relaxation
In my first in this series, I looked at how vital mental resilience is to mental health. Your mental resilience is your ability to overcome the difficulties. If those difficulties…
Keys to Mental Resilience #1: Strong Connections
In my previous blog, I compared how your mental resilience is like a wheel on the road of life. If you look after your wheel, it will be better equipped…
The Secret to Good Mental Health & The 12 Spokes of Mental Resilience
As a mental health practitioner for over 40 years, the emphasis in my training was mental illness, from Anxiety to Anorexia, Depression to Dementia and Self Injury to Schizophrenia. We…
Why Many Don’t Take Workplace Verbal Abuse Seriously & What You Can Do If It Happens to You
Three months after Aisha starting working in a prison, she was talking to a group of prisoners in the kitchen when one of them said to her, ‘I can always…
Why Good Training is Crucial to Enable Employees to Manage Violence and Aggression Effectively
In my first article, I told the story of a group of call centre staff who underwent training to deal with violent people. They were given a set of skills…
How To Gauge Your Own Violence & Aggression Training Needs – Perspectives From Real Life Scenarios
Since violence and aggression in the workplace became a health issue in April 1996 I have delivered more than 4,500 days of training and prepared around 400 expert witness reports.…
