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Tag: Positive Mental Health & Reduced Symptoms of Illness

  • Resilience-Focused Interventions

    Resilience-focused interventions are the explicit or implicit building of skills that enable individuals to recover to positive mental health following an adversity and include a variety of internal and external factors.

  • Regular Classes in Outdoor Education Setting

    Outdoor education has been shown to have a variety of benefits across the lifespan. Specifically within the educational context, regularly compulsory school-based and curriculum-based outdoor education over an extended period of time have been shown to have a variety of positive effects on students across age ranges.

  • Cognitive-behaviour based Programs

    CB-based approach provides skills and tools that help to address the thoughts and thinking patterns (cognitive) and related behaviours (actions or reactions) in order to improve how one views their world experience and employs coping strategies.

  • Self-Compassion Training

    The training and programs included a variety of different focuses ranging from psychoeducation and information about the brain, breathing, meditation, mindfulness, and imagery practice, and of course information and tactics that help promote self-compassion.

  • Psychological Detachment

    In the current era where it is ever more difficult to “leave work at work”, there is demonstrated value in psychological detachment, or allowing staff to (mentally or physically) distance themselves from work during non-work times.

  • Nature-based Interventions

    Nature is well known to have positive effects on our mental health and overall well-being but there is also evidence that it can specifically assist in the workplace by promoting positive mental health and helping to reduce stress.

  • Employee and Family Assistance Programs

    The existence of an EAP, and specifically its promotion by employers, has been shown to increase employee satisfaction, organizational culture, and can act as an incentive for new recruits.

  • Digital Mental Health Interventions

    Digital or e-based programs that share mental health information, skill-building, and other resources at regular intervals with staff have been shown to improve mental health.

  • Yoga Program

    Yoga is a unique activity as it incorporates many aspects that have been shown to promote mental health and well-being including physical activity, breathing, sustained focus, community, and spirituality.

  • Mindfulness-based Programs

    The skills that mindfulness fosters have been shown to have a positive impact in the workplace such as through problem solving, creativity, curiosity and coping with uncertainty which may also have a positive impact on job satisfaction and productivity.