How Mental Health First Aid works and why it’s needed
One in five Canadians will experience a mental-health problem this year with a cost to the economy in excess of $50 billion, according to the Mental Health Commission of Canada. Given...
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Resilience and soft skills: What’s the connection?
Why do some clients thrive regardless of the challenges they face and others seem to crumble at the slightest difficulty? What can career development practitioners do to help clients succeed...
How Peer Coaching Can Make Work Less Lonely
Loneliness is a subjective feeling of isolation. Number of coworker interactions and whether or not you work remotely are not causal factors. What matters is the quality and meaningfulness of...
Self-care can combat burnout for career development practitioners
Career development practitioners are helping professionals who get drawn into their line of work due to their desire to help others, which can put them at risk of such issues...
Hiring aspiring workers living with mental illness makes both sense and cents
Unemployment rates for people living with a mental illness can be as high as 70 to 90 per cent. This reality doesn’t just disadvantage “aspiring workers." It also puts employers...
Balancing Work and Life in Transition
When you transition to a new role in work or life, be it taking on a new job or becoming a parent, your daily schedule and priorities can be thrown...
Mental health issues less likely to be seen as disabilities: Survey
Despite the rise in public awareness of mental health issues, Canadians still hold a bias toward viewing disabilities as being largely physical rather than mental in nature, according to a...
Hope-Centred Interventions with Unemployed Clients
This study investigates the effectiveness of hope-based interventions used with clients in employment counselling centers who were experiencing low hope. Results indicate that increasing hope competencies can increase an overall...
The Devastating Impact of Unemployment
The work we do can have a huge impact on our mental health. Conversely, the work that we don’t do can have an even greater and more deleterious effect on...
The overlooked essentials of employee well-being
Workplace stress is exacting an ever-higher physical and psychological toll. It adversely affects productivity, drives up voluntary turnover, and costs employers in healthcare costs. Many companies are aware of these...