The following Work Stress and Mental Health Training for Dental Healthcare Providers course is designed to educate dental healthcare providers on how to cope with work-related stress and mental health issues developed in the workplace.
Work stress includes the harmful physical and emotional responses that happen when the requirements of a job do not match the capabilities, resources, or needs of the worker. Work stress can lead to poor mental and physical health.
Mental health includes a person’s psychological, emotional, and social well-being and affects how we feel, think, and act. Although individual factors and social resources can modify the reaction to occupational stressors to some degree, working conditions can play a major role in placing workers at risk for health problems.
What You’ll Learn
- Causes of Work Stress
- Potential Adverse Health Effects of Occupational Stress
- Causes of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Controlling Stress in the Workplace
Details
Course length: 45 minutes; CEU: 0.75.
Languages: American English
Key features: Audio narration, learning activity, and post-assessment
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The following training will teach dental healthcare providers how to deal with mental health and stress-related issues that may come with the job. The contents of this course are taken from government sources and organizations. Through this course, you will learn how employees and employers can influence workplace stress.
Benefits of an Online Course
There are many advantages to taking an online course. Online courses are flexible and convenient. You can work them around your busy schedule. You’re allowed to take this course on your own time and in the environment of your choice. It can improve skills of self-management and self-discipline. This course can be easily taken and easily administered.
Stress and Mental Health
Work stress has the potential to drastically impact mental health. Work stress occurs when the demands of the job exceed the capabilities, resources, and needs of the employee.
Causes of Work Stress
Work stress usually results from occupational demands. These demands can include tasks and social factors, factors related to finances, work-life balance, promotion, and poor environment.
These factors all play a role in work stress and can be detrimental to an employee’s health. Through this course, you will learn about the risks associated with work stress and the possible health issues that may arise as a result.
Stress Mitigation
Organizational change and stress management tactics are essential to managing work-related stress. This means eliminating stressors. Through this course, you will learn methods of organizational change. Additionally, you will learn methods of individual change that can also mitigate work stress.
The method of Innovative Coping is also shown to be effective in reducing the effects of work stress. Employees should have the freedom to determine their stress reduction methods. Organizations should support and prioritize reducing stress for their employees.
Update the methods you establish regularly making sure they align with your organizational needs.
Work Burnout
Burnout is a reaction to stress that comes with exhaustion, depersonalization, and a low sense of personal accomplishment. Burnout comes from high levels of work stress, this stress can have impacts on the overall health and well-being of the employee.
The symptoms include exhaustion, alienation from work-related activities, and reduced work performance.
Through this course, you will learn how to cope with work burnout by looking at the aspects of your personal life and professional life that are important.
Compassion Fatigue
There are two elements of compassion fatigue, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress. Burnout is physical and mental exhaustion that leads to fatigue, frustration, and low work performance. The second factor, secondary traumatic stress, is stress you may experience due to others going through trauma. This comes with talking to others about their traumas.
Through this course, you will know the signs and symptoms of secondary traumatic stress or compassion fatigue in yourself and your coworkers. Things to look out for include being on edge, difficulty making decisions, sleep issues, issues caring for clients, intrusive thoughts, and others.
What can employers do about work stress?
Through this course, you will learn the role of employers in reducing workplace stress. One thing that can be done is to make self-assessments of mental health available to all employees. Providing health coverage related to mental health care can also positively impact stress in the workplace. Inform employees of mental health symptoms and care opportunities. Allow spaces for employees to decompress and relax.
How can employees aid in preventing occupational stress?
Encourage employers to offer mental health services to peers. Additionally, employees can simply be there for their peers and foster social connections in the workplace.
