Mental Health
Stuck in fight-or-flight mode? 5 ways to complete the &...
April 18, 2024
Can you remember a time when you felt stressed leading up to a big life event and then afterwards felt like a weight had been lifted? This process – the ramping up of the stress response and then feeling this settle back down – shows completion of the “stress cycle”. Some stress in daily life…
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15% of NSW nurses and midwives suffer post-traumatic st...
March 9, 2023
Work-related exhaustion and disengagement – key indicators of burnout – are major causes of post-traumatic…
Mental Health
Record demand for mental health services
February 3, 2023
The Black Summer bushfires of 2019–20, followed by the east coast floods and the COVID-19…
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Surge in psychological injury claims
February 3, 2023
Psychological injuries are taking a severe and worsening toll on the NSW healthcare workforce. The…
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Mental health nursing in decline
February 3, 2023
The surge in demand for mental health support highlights the inadequacy of mental health services…
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10 per cent of healthcare workforce considered suicide...
April 7, 2022
New research shows Australia’s healthcare workforce has been in severe distress during COVID. A new…
Mental Health
COVID-19 weighs heavily on psychiatric nurses
December 2, 2021
Cumberland mental health nurses knew COVID-19 would eventually reach their understaffed and ill-prepared hospital, but…
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3 out of 4 kids with mental health disorders aren’t a...
September 23, 2021
Three-quarters of Australian children with mental health disorders aren’t getting professional help, according to our…
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For refugees in Australia, life during COVID lockdowns...
August 30, 2021
While the COVID-19 pandemic is weighing heavily on everyone’s mental health, people from refugee backgrounds…
Mental Health
Compassion fatigue: the cost some workers pay for cari...
August 24, 2021
Health and social workers often choose their profession because they want to help people. But…