Tagged With "healthcare workers"
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Kimberly Gomez
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Rich Godoy
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Richard Godoy
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Heather Sylvester
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Return to Work? Not With Child Care Still in Limbo, Some Parents Say. [nytimes.com]
By Claire Cain Miller, The New York Times, August 9, 2021 Brianna McCain left her job as an office manager when the pandemic started, to care for her two young daughters. By last spring, she was ready to go back to work. But she hasn’t been able to, because her children are still at home. She has been searching for a job with flexible hours and the ability to work from home, but these are hard to find, especially for new hires and for hourly workers. She can’t take an in-person job until...
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Maureen Motley Zitin
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Jacqueline Millican
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Jennifer Pino-Xiong
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Roxann Pazder
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Patricia Maguire
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Carolyn McDonald
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SIGNS YOU’RE A COMPASSION FATIGUED LEADER — AND 10 TIPS FOR RECOVERY
By Shakima L. Tozay, (first published @ Govloop.com) Are you emotionally and physically exhausted? Do you no longer feel a sense of personal accomplishment in your work? Have you become more disconnected from your co-worker? Over the last 2 years, the emotional impacts of the pandemic and the exodus of workers in what has been called the Great Reshuffle, has taken a major toll on many leaders. Last year, nearly 48 million U.S. workers left their jobs. Additionally, the “hidden...
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ERIN KEHL
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Candice Valenzuela: What if self-care isn't the Answer? Tune in for ‘History. Culture. Trauma.’ podcast July 14.
Can collective care heal communities, especially communities struggling with systemic racism and historical trauma? Join PACEs Connection CEO Ingrid Cockhren and guest Candice Valenzuela on PACEs Connection’s podcast “History. Culture. Trauma.” as they address that question. They’ll discuss collective care, especially how communities struggle with system racism and historical trauma as they strive to heal. The podcast airs on July 14 at 1 p.m. PT/ 4 p.m. ET on the VoiceAmerica Talk Radio...
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Virginia Fernandez
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Marieke Van Rybroek
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thomas ryan
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The Rise of the Worker Productivity Score [nytimes.com]
By Jodi Kantor and Arya Sundaram, Image: Beth Flynn/The New York Times, The New York Times, August 14, 2022 A FEW YEARS AGO , Carol Kraemer, a longtime finance executive, took a new job. Her title, senior vice president, was impressive. The compensation was excellent: $200 an hour. But her first paychecks seemed low. Her new employer, which used extensive monitoring software on its all-remote workers, paid them only for the minutes when the system detected active work. Worse, Ms. Kraemer...
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Tracy Lanning
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Trauma-Informed Care Highlighted at NACHC Conference
Origins Training & Consulting was proud to partner with Eisner Health to share their journey of implementing trauma-informed care at the National Association of Community Health Centers annual Community Health Institute in Chicago. To learn more about the lessons learned from Eisner Health's experience, you can download the full paper at https://originstraining.org/eisner-healths-journey-through-implementing-trauma-informed-care/ Thanks to ACEs Aware for funding this paper!
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Secondary Traumatic Stress - a Hidden Epidemic Join Us Sept. 30th
The "Great Resignation," "Quiet Quitting," and rising social awareness of historical racism have all brought attention to a common but frequently overlooked hazard of caregiving professions: Secondary Traumatic Stress (STS). In the execution of duties, professions that support our society with compassion and empathy can face traumatic stress from exposure to the experiences of the people that they are there to support. This stress can have deleterious physical and emotional consequences...
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Elise Dunnigan
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Self-Care: Ethical Implications For The Novice Social Worker
Greek philosopher and physician Hippocrates of Kos is considered the father of modern medicine. An influential physician and scholar, Hippocrates was adamant about effective healthcare practices. During his career, Hippocrates implemented an essential policy for future physicians to follow. To establish consent to heal, doctors should ask patients if they are willing to give up the things that cause them to be sick (Hippocrates & Asulanus, 1526). Hippocrates believed physicians needed...
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Easing your way into changing your organization to include practices and policies based on PACEs science
Last week I posted “ The trouble with trauma (-informed), the aggravation of ACEs (screening): We're trying to fit both into traditional frameworks and it isn't working .” This post goes one step farther to describe the first easy steps that all organizations can use, no matter what the sector, to wrap their minds around integrating healing practices and policies based on PACEs science. In the comments section, Rebecca Bryan asked, “What is a reliable tool to assess organizational ACEs? Does...
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The Trauma Triangle: How Fostering Awareness of Reenactments Builds Resilience
The basic concept surrounding trauma-informed care is this: We all have trauma. Some of us are at a higher risk of experiencing trauma. We carry this trauma with us, and if we do not address it, we will not heal from it. Understanding reenactments is one way that we can continue healing from trauma. Our healing helps us make sure that we don’t traumatize or re-traumatize others due to our own inability to emotionally regulate. In the context of trauma healing, there are three main things we...
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11 Trauma-Informed Boundary Phrases to Use at Work
Trauma-informed leaders know that healthy boundaries are essential for healthy relationships—in and out of work. But setting and reinforcing your boundaries can be challenging when you haven’t had a lot of practice. That’s why we’ve provided these boundary phrases to help you maintain healthy relationships at work by saying no and setting expectations in a kind and trauma-informed way. As you read through these boundary phrases, keep in mind that not all phrases are right for all people or...
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Shelly Tokunaga-May
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Kiara Perkins
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Jennifer Schweizer
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Beth Coons
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Sakeena Mirza
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Brooke Grunza
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AI at Work: Boosting Mental Health or Brewing Existential Angst? (mindfulleader.org)
To read the Mindful Leader Under Mindful AI & Tech article, please click here. The current workplace environment reveals that generative artificial intelligence (AI) is like a two-sided coin, presenting advantages and challenges for employees' mental health. Recent publications have shared opposing perspectives for this article we’ll take a look at two: Here’s how A.I.-backed tools can help with worker stress and mental health CNBC AI's rapid adoption could hurt workers' mental health,...
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The Surviving Spirit Newsletter February 2024
The latest Surviving Spirit Newsletter - Hope, Healing & Help for Trauma, Abuse & Mental Health is out - It can be read online via this & you can also subscribe - http://ml.survivingspirit.com/dada/mail.cgi/archive/newsletter/20240227180514/ Newsletter Contents : 1] The Nordic Way to Stop Bullying by David Robson @ BBC News 2] People Who Had Unhappy Childhoods Usually Develop These Traits by Sinead Cafferty @ Bolde 3] Fighting for Recovery by Phyllis Vine – Beacon Press 4] How...
