Useful Links and Further Resources

We've included some useful links and further resources here that we think may be of interest to you as an organisation or as an individual. We'll keep updating it so please check back in regularly.

Useful Links

Taking care of business: MIND report on employer solutions for better mental health at work

Sickness Absence Review 2011: Dame Carol Black/David Frost

Foresight Mental Capital and Wellbeing Report: Making the most of ourselves in the 21st century

DWP Health and Wellbeing at Work Survey 2011: Employers

DWP Health and Wellbeing at Work Survey 2011: Employees

Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Business Solution case studies: Examples of how to deal with preventing and managing stress as an employer

HSE video case studies: what BT, the Fire and Rescue Service, and Bradford and Bingley have done about work-related stress

Health, Work and Wellbeing research reports: from the DWP

Human Resources Solutions: Free HR Advice and Guidance

CIPD Absence Management: Practical tools and advice for managing absence

CIPD Absence Management 2010: latest annual survey results from CIPD

CIPD useful factsheets: bite-size advice (free to register for further reading)

Wellbeing at Work: from the British Heart Foundation

Henley Occupational Health: Medical advice for businesses on employee health and wellbeing

How to manage sick absence: from Employee Benefits magazine

Example Health and Wellbeing policy from Investors in People

Employee Benefits: website for employee benefits decision-makers

HRZone: practical, topical content for HR professionals

NHS Health for Work Adviceline: Occupational health adviceline

ACAS Model Workplace: Assess and Improve Your People Management

Business in the Community Managing Emotional Wellbeing Tool, from their Health and Wellbeing pages

Five Ways to Well-being: New Economics Foundation

Health and Safety Executive (HSE): HSE stress pages, with lots of free resources

How good a Stress Manager are you?: HSE Line manager competency indicator tool

Employer's Charter from Business Link: Find out what you can and can't do as an employer

Action for Happiness: Join the movement for positive social change

Guidelines for counselling in the workplace: from the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

The International Stress Management Association: Useful resources for preventing and managing stress

The Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development

British Psychological Society: Special Group in Coaching Psychology

Centre for Clinical Interventions: Australian programme using a CBT approach. Full of helpful workbooks on for example Assertiveness, Self Esteem, Perfectionism, Worrying

The Boorman Review: NHS Health and Wellbeing Review for NHS staff, with Staff Health and Wellbeing Case Studies

The Institute of Healthcare Management

The Royal College of Psychiatrists: Mental health information for all

Managing Presenteeism from Business in the Community

'Stress counselling: help or hindrance?' Interesting article on workplace support

'Does workplace counselling work?' Study from the Tayside Institute for Health Studies

Do EAPs work? Paper by Rob Briner, Birkbeck College

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