Since I starting blogging, I have written posts on a range of topics concerning work…
Tag: wellbeing
This short post concerns a specific metaphor that those affected by trauma may find helpful.…
In my previous post on the Helping Octagon, I outlined eight roles relevant to helping…
It seems like everyone is talking about mental health. This is most obvious in the…
Healthcare is perhaps the most complex safety-critical sector, and the challenges have only increased throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Increasingly, human and organisational factors have come under the spotlight. Manoj Kumar is a consultant general surgeon with a background also in safety, human factors, and training. In this conversation with Steven Shorrock, Manoj provides insights and perspectives on the realities of work in healthcare, and the team’s role in improvement.
Some people can identify a day where everything changed in a way that was previously unimaginable. For Dennie Coumans, this day came at the end of December 2017. What happened totally reshaped his life.
In this post, I reflect on what I learned since graduating and have found to be most important to practice in the design and improvement of work.
On the centenary of air traffic control, and the International day of the air traffic controller, I offer five suggestions that have emerged from my experience of working with air traffic controllers over 25 years of practice as a psychologist.
Are there people in your life to whom you feel, at some level, a need…
When stressful or traumatic life events come along, we all respond in different ways. One of these may seem counter-intuitive, that we can thrive and flourish following adversity. In this article, Stephen Joseph introduces the psychology of post-traumatic growth, with Steven Shorrock.
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