Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Protecting Your Mental Health at Work - Tiffany Johnson and psychologist Hammad S. N’cho, Knowledge at Wharton

Unhappy employees often describe their workplace as a toxic environment rife with distrust, low morale, negativity, and burnout. But organizational and behavioral health experts have a different word for workplaces that are harmful enough to affect mental and physical health — traumatic. As many Americans head back into the office this fall, businesses can help mitigate that effect by adopting a “trauma-informed management strategy” that recognizes the extraordinary stresses of the last 18 months, said Hammad S. N’cho, a licensed psychologist who specializes in front-line trauma response.

https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/protecting-mental-health-work/