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Psychological Health and Safety Toolkit for Primary Care Teams and Training Programs

This toolkit aims to empower comprehensive primary care teams and training programs to promote psychological health and safety through a set of curated, evidence-informed resources focused on team-based activities, policies, and practices.
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What is psychological health and safety?

Psychological health is a form of well-being that allows individuals to think, feel, and behave in a manner that enables them to perform effectively in their work environments, personal lives, and in society at large (Samra et al, 2022).

Psychological safety is a condition in which people are free from threats of harm to their psychological health (MHCC, 2019).

Psychological health and safety is a way people interact with one another as well as the way working conditions and management practices are structured within the workplace (CSA, 2013).

Seven themes for workplace psychological health and safety

The resources in this toolkit are organized by seven themes, based on a clustering of the psychosocial factors identified in Canada’s National Standard for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace.

Organizational and team culture

Organizational and team culture

Workload and work-life

Workload management and work-life balance

Successful attractive female doctor or surgeon in scrubs standing with folded arms in front of an African male doctor or consultant conceptual of an expert medical team, on white

Clear leadership and expectations

Psychological protection

Protection of physical safety

Protection of physical safety

Portrait of doctor and surgeon in a hospital together

Protection from moral distress

Support for self-care

Support for psychological self-care

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REWIND Communication Tool 

This one-hour workshop focuses on resident physician mistreatment in medical learning. It includes a demonstration of the REWIND communication tool...

REWIND Communication Tool 

This one-hour workshop focuses on resident physician mistreatment in medical learning. It includes a demonstration of the REWIND communication tool (relax, express, why, inquire, negotiate, determine) to address experienced or observed mistreatment.

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Author(s)/Organization(s)
Pang et al.
Tags
mistreatment, discrimination, communication
Audience
Health-care educator/Trainer, Trainee
Theme
Organizational and team culture, Psychological protection, Protection of physical safety
Cost
Free
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Article (Peer reviewed)
Sector
Specific to healthcare
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Private clinic, Community care, Home care, Online setting, Hospital, Long-term care
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Not explicitly
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English
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A Qualitative Study of Medical Students’ Perspectives on a Clinically-Based Interprofessional Shadowing Course

This study investigates the perceptions, experiences, and reflections of medical students who took a course that had them shadow six...

A Qualitative Study of Medical Students’ Perspectives on a Clinically-Based Interprofessional Shadowing Course

This study investigates the perceptions, experiences, and reflections of medical students who took a course that had them shadow six different health-care professionals for a week. The report outlines themes that emerged from the analysis and presents findings that indicate the course’s effectiveness as an interprofessional learning method.

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Hsieh and Lo
Tags
perceptions, empathy, medical students, interprofessional learning, hierarchy, shadowing
Audience
Health-care educator/Trainer
Theme
Organizational and team culture, Psychological protection
Cost
Free
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Article (Peer reviewed)
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Specific to healthcare
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Learning environment
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Not explicitly
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English
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Strength in Caring: An Interprofessional Innovation to Cultivate Organizational Wellness 

A presentation on using interventions to build engagement and promote departmental resilience and psychological safety among physicians and advanced practice...

Strength in Caring: An Interprofessional Innovation to Cultivate Organizational Wellness 

A presentation on using interventions to build engagement and promote departmental resilience and psychological safety among physicians and advanced practice providers. The description offers insight into mitigating poor systemic processes and finding different approaches for strengthening complex, multi-team systems in health care.

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Lockeman and Colleagues in Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine Health Sciences Education Symposium
Tags
strengths-based leadership, wellness ambassadors, organizational wellness, resilience, psychological safety
Audience
Health worker, Manager/Supervisor/Director
Theme
Organizational and team culture, Psychological protection
Cost
Free
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Poster Presentation
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Specific to healthcare
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Hospital
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Not explicitly
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English
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Mental Health Structural Stigma in Healthcare eLearning Course

This is a 90-minute online course on how to identify structural stigma related to mental health and substance use (MHSU)...

Mental Health Structural Stigma in Healthcare eLearning Course

This is a 90-minute online course on how to identify structural stigma related to mental health and substance use (MHSU) problems or illnesses in health-care organizations. It explains how this stigma contributes to inequity and poorer experiences and health outcomes for people living with MHSU problems or illnesses.

This link opens an external web page. The Canadian Health Workforce Network and the Mental Health Commission of Canada do not control the quality or omission of translations.

Author(s)/Organization(s)
CHA Learning & Mental Health Commission of Canada
Tags
mental health, structural stigma, leadership, inequity
Audience
Manager/Supervisor/Director, Health worker
Theme
Organizational and team culture
Cost
Free
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Course/Training/Workshop
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Specific to healthcare
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Community care, Hospital, Long-term care, Private clinic
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Not explicitly
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Bilingual

Disclaimer: This inventory is by no means exhaustive. The Canadian Health Workforce Network and the Mental Health Commission of Canada are unable to comment on the quality of individual programs or services. Consequently, their inclusion in this toolkit should not be considered an endorsement of particular programs or organizations.

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