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Sustaining and Embedding:A Strategic and Dynamic Approach to Workplace Wellbeing
Full text linkMuch research on practices to improve workplace health and wellbeing focuses on specific ‘interventions’ or combinations of ‘interventions’. In this stream of research, an intervention is a specific and discrete organisational action mandated by management with a planned and specific target. However, organisations typically can and do adopt multiple workplace health and wellbeing practices in a strategic and evolving programme. In the current chapter, we outline a model of how organisations sustain, embed and change patterns of workplace health and wellbeing practices over the longer term in coherent and strategic programmes. We suggest that this adaption of programmes is especially relevant in the current turbulent era we find ourselves in, post-Covid
Health baseline comparisons and quality of life in people with cancer
Full text linkThis programme of research involved the development of a new health psychology concept: health baseline comparisons (HBCs). This is defined as the comparative baselines used to assess subjective health status. The following broad research questions were tested: Which HBCs are adopted by individuals with cancer?; What are the implications of different HBCs for quality of life (QoL) and other types of well-being?; How stable are HBCs throughout a course of treatment?
A mixed-methodology approach was adopted to address the research questions. Five studies were conducted, all but the initial pilot study involving a clinical sample of people with cancer. A questionnaire to measure the use of different HBCs was developed and pilot tested, before being used to examine HBCs in people with breast and prostate cancer. On further refining the HBC construct, the questionnaire was re-validated and used to explore HBCs in women undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer. The extent to which HBCs predicted QoL and psychological well-being was also examined in these studies. The stability of HBCs was sought from the same women two-months post-chemotherapy, focusing on associations with QoL and emotional well-being.
The cross-sectional and longitudinal findings obtained in the first four studies were supplemented by a series of semi-structured interviews with a purposive sample of women from the longitudinal study. Interview transcripts were analysed via interpretative phenomenological analysis.
Five categories of health baselines emerged from this programme of research: social; social comparison; biological; illness-specific; and turning to others. Some evidence was found that HBCs can change over time or be affected by illness and its treatment. Some HBCs, particularly social comparison and illness-specific baselines, were found to be significant predictors of QoL and psychological well-being, but the variance accounted for in these outcomes was generally small.
Although the HBC questionnaire had acceptable internal consistency and reflected the experiences of people during cancer treatment and in the survivorship period, evidence was also found that the type and pattern of HBCs are subject to individual differences. This indicates that assessment of the construct also requires a qualitative and personalised component. The implications of the findings for the development of interventions are discussed and ideas for future research explored
Supporting diversity and intersectionality at work: implications for wellbeing
Full text linkBook synopsis: This book provides a comprehensive examination of the physical and mental health challenges facing workers today, focusing particularly on the social, technological, and political consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. Delving into core perceptions of work culture, chapters also map out ways of thinking about wellbeing at work in the future to make workplaces healthier and more productive.
Presenting up-to-date research on how to improve wellbeing in the workplace, editors Paula Brough and Gail Kinman bring together leading international scholars to cover problems such as stress, burnout, workplace trauma, and boundary management. Contributing authors dissect complex factors in building a healthy and constructive workplace, including enhancing diversity and intersectionality; managing absenteeism and presenteeism; dealing with uncertainty during planned and emergent changes; and advancing digital technology. Special attention is paid to managing workers post-pandemic, considering increased working from home, and higher demand for services and support for mental health. The book also discusses changes in how the fundamental value of work is perceived and how it adds to, or detracts from, workers’ health and wellbeing.
Bringing together integrated approaches to managing wellbeing in the workplace, this book is an invaluable resource for researchers, scholars, and students in health psychology, occupational and business psychology, business and management, human resource management, organisational behaviour and occupational health
Evaluating and supporting Neurodifferences* at work
No full textA new guide Evaluating and supporting Neurodifferences at work is now available from The Society of Occupational Medicine (SOM). It is a product of the SOM Occupational Health Psychology Special Interest Group (SIG) and has been launched during Neurodiversity Celebration Week.
The guide is aimed at occupational health (OH) practitioners, Human Resources professionals and employers, who are considering referring their staff for a diagnostic assessment of or services to support ADHD, Autism, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Tourette's Syndrome and/or similar. It outlines what to look out for in staff, different options available for support and legal duties of employers. The guide presents recommendations informed by research evidence, the latest guidance from regulatory bodies, current practice, and case law. The group are now looking to produce a guide on leadership in wellbeing.
"Navigating services for neurodiversity can be confusing - there's a lot of options for support and it's hard to pin point which you need at which point. This guidance explores the topic of identification and diagnosis, with advice for occupational health and employers on remit and commissioning. We hope it will de-mystify some of the terms and processes available, and lead to confidence in raising what can be a tricky and emotional topic."
Dr Nancy Doyle, Occupational Health Psychologist and member of SOM Occupational Health Psychology SIG
With thanks to contributors Dr Nancy Doyle, Dr Belinda Medhurst and Dr Gail Kinman
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Supporting practitioner wellbeing
No full textThis guide aims to support you, as a social care practitioner, to repair, maintain, grow and sustain
your mental health and wellbeing. This will allow you to flourish and continue to support others
effectively in your professional practice.
The guide draws upon the extensive research and practice experience of the author, Professor Gail
Kinman, and includes approaches and guidance she has developed as well as providing detailed
evidence from varied research and practice sources.
The guide includes the following sections:
> Introduction and background
> Self-care: the cornerstone of resilience and wellbeing
> Self-care: repair, maintenance and growth
> Avoiding burnout
> Self-compassion
> Lifestyle and self-care
> Mindfulness
> Building your support network
> Keeping a healthy work-life balance
> Assembling your own toolbo
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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