An employer’s basic legal responsibility is to not discriminate against an employee because of mental illness and to provide reasonable workplace adjustments to support employees with mental illness. However, many managers […]
Are you feeling overwhelmed by how to deal with the rising issues around mental health and mental illness in the workplace? Increasing rates of stress claims; leaders unsure of how […]
Ongoing Coping Strategies To finish off our series on stress begun earlier in the year we will discuss “ongoing” strategies to help with the everyday ebbs and flows that we […]
Mental illness is still often misunderstood. If someone in your life discloses to you that they are living with a mental illness, this doesn’t really tell you much about their […]
Stress is a condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the personal and social resources that the individual is able to mobilise. Richard S Lazarus According […]
Did you know…. About OCD Not Me? OCD? Not Me! is a new, fully online treatment from Curtin University for young people who have OCD. It is an 8-stage program […]
One in five Australian adults and one in four 16 – 24 year olds experience mental illness every year, however not all of these people are diagnosed or receive treatment […]
We are pleased to announce that Blooming Minds have won the Injury Control Council of Western Australia’s Private Sector Achievement Award for Suicide Prevention Initiatives. The annual ICCWA Injury Prevention […]
If a person’s depression or anxiety does not affect how they do their job, they are not legally required to tell their employer about it. The decision to tell or […]
Have you or someone you know experienced mental illness while you were an employee? Did this affect your work capacity? How well did your organisation respond to your needs? If […]
The Act Belong Commit campaign encourages all of us to think about our mental health and offers three easy ways to improve it – Act – be physically, socially and […]
We hear about mental health and mental ill health a lot these days. But we don’t really think about it until we, or someone close to us, experiences mental health […]
“It CAN’T be halfway through February already!” The New Year brings optimism for change and yet so many of us find that time slips away and, before we realise it, […]
