Mental Health and Well-Being
This on-demand training is designed for UI supervisors and managers and focuses on supporting mental health and well-being of employees. By improving your knowledge and skills in understanding and identifying mental health concerns, you will be better equipped to support your staff.
Problems
When the following situations occur in the workplace, the EAP may help you address the problem:
- Changes in work performance that could be either sudden or develop over a period of time
- Absenteeism or attendance problems
- Deteriorating or inconsistent work performance
- Presenteeism (i.e. being at work but not "on the job")
- Frequent or increased tardiness
- Increased errors, accidents, or missed deadlines
- Difficulties with concentration, confusion
- Change in attitude, mood, appearance
- Change in work relationships
- Frequent complaints either by the employee or about the employee by others
- When an employee shares a personal problem with you
- When you are feeling stressed, frustrated, helpless, disappointed, or anxious when thinking about an employee's work performance problems
Additional Supervisor Resources
- Dealing with Distressed Individuals
- Top 9 Tips for Dealing with Problem Behavior in the Workplace
- Supervisory Tools (Dartmouth College)
The Employee Assistance Program offers educational opportunities for University of Iowa departments and workgroups at no cost. Although EAP will work with departments to develop topics that address their specific interests, in general, EAP offers the following talks:
- Suicide Prevention: Question, Persuade Refer
- Why Sleep Matters
- Helping the Troubled Employee
- Resilience
- Emotional Intelligence: Managing Self, Managing Others