The following resources are related to addiction, anxiety, depression, menopause, or stress. They may include therapeutic approaches and are provided for information only. The information contained in these resources does not constitute and should not be relied on as professional advice. Always consult your physician or appropriate healthcare provider with respect to your particular circumstances. If you click on a link, you may be entering a third-party website not maintained or controlled in any way by Workplace Strategies for Mental Health.
Working with Addiction
Managing your addiction at work
Addictive behaviours could include using substances, gambling, pornography or video gaming. Addictive behaviours at work could result in discipline or job loss. Strategies are offered to help you avoid engaging in addictive behaviours at work.
The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)
CAMH is Canada's largest mental health teaching hospital and one of the world's leading research centres in its field.
The Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA)
CMHA is a non-profit, charitable organization committed to making mental health possible for all.
Working with anxiety
Anxiety Canada provides helpful approaches that can be used for multiple anxiety problems, so even if you have 2, 3, or more disorders, many of the same tools can be used for all of them.
Workplace Wellness – Not an Oxymoron Anymore?
This article by Anxiety Canada includes a review of stress in the workplace and Five Steps for Managing Workplace Anxiety.
Working with chronic pain or illness
Navigating episodic disability in the workplace
Content for career counsellors on the barriers people with episodic disabilities face in their careers and what can be done to help.
The Job Demands and Accommodation Planning Tool (JDAPT) helps workers with chronic and episodic conditions – and the workplace parties who support them – identify accommodations tailored to job demands that allow workers to successfully stay in their jobs.
Working with depression
The Anti-Depressant Skills Workbook
This workbook provides an overview of depression, information on ways to manage it according to the best available research, and a step-by-step guide to changing patterns that trigger depression.
Working with mental illness
Asking for help or accommodation at work can be difficult, particularly when you’re experiencing mental health issues. This Workplace Strategies for Mental Health resource shares many proven approaches to advocate for yourself, your success and your well-being, whether at work or returning to work.
Working during menopause
This guide from the Faculty of Occupational Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians (FOM) is aimed at women going through menopause and experiencing the impact it has on their working lives. It also offers employers practical guidance on how to improve workplace environments for menopausal women.
The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC) has gathered the most trustworthy, up-to-date, and evidence-based information about menopause, here, together on one site.
Working while stressed
This resource explains how you can be mentally healthy at work, and provides practical suggestions for what you can do.
Working after trauma
Trauma is a subjective experience for everyone. This is also true for the way we interact and respond to triggering situations after experiencing a traumatic event. These strategies for managing trauma at work can help.
Additional resources
- Caregiver resources. These tips and strategies can help make it easier to advocate for the health and well-being of our loved ones. It includes information on government services, seniors, health, finances and self-care.
- Financial stress. Offers resources to help cope with financial stress. Take action to regain control of money issues related to personal finances, student debt and more.
- Health resources. Tools and resources for managing your own health and wellness, as well as information for helping others. Find credible information about managing well-being and mental health-related concerns.
- Managing stress. Learn how to manage your reactions to stress and protect your well-being.
- Managing trauma. Learn actions and supports to help manage trauma at work.
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