Employee Certificate Program
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5 Modules
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20 Lessons
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1 CEU Credits Total
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1 ISO Certificate
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5 Workbooks
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10 Hours in Total
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13 Resource Videos
In this 5-module program, learners will build the knowledge, skills, and confidence they need to recognize, speak to, and action workplace psychological health and safety for themselves and others.
In each module, learners will engage new environments and meet a new character who could use their help. Participants will have to use their newfound knowledge and skills to guide the characters through a variety of situations they face in their unique areas.
Engaging and scenario-based online activities provide examples and opportunities to check understanding, while workbook activities guide learners in exploring your own ideas and experiences.
This program has been developed by certified instructional designers under ISO/ANSI continuing education standards and aligned with IACET principles. It is also aligned with CSA Z1003's National Standard of Canada for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace, ISO 45003's Psychological Health and Safety at Work - Guidelines for managing psychosocial risks, and the US Surgeon General's Framework for Workplace Mental Health and Well-Being.
By starting this program, participants are on their way to enhancing their own mental health, communication and conflict management skills.
In each module, learners will engage new environments and meet a new character who could use their help. Participants will have to use their newfound knowledge and skills to guide the characters through a variety of situations they face in their unique areas.
Engaging and scenario-based online activities provide examples and opportunities to check understanding, while workbook activities guide learners in exploring your own ideas and experiences.
This program has been developed by certified instructional designers under ISO/ANSI continuing education standards and aligned with IACET principles. It is also aligned with CSA Z1003's National Standard of Canada for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace, ISO 45003's Psychological Health and Safety at Work - Guidelines for managing psychosocial risks, and the US Surgeon General's Framework for Workplace Mental Health and Well-Being.
By starting this program, participants are on their way to enhancing their own mental health, communication and conflict management skills.
Program Curriculum
Select each module/lesson to learn more.
Module 1: Stay Mentally Healthy & Resilient
Module 2: Recognize Common Mental Health Issues
Module 3: Improve Work-Life Harmony
Module 4: Get a Good Night’s Sleep
Module 5: Show Civility and Respect
Recognize Common Mental Health Issues
Being compassionate and understanding of what friends, family, peers and co-workers might be experiencing in relation to their mental health is extremely important.
Learners will gain a clear and practical understanding of psychological health, common mental health issues, their telltale signs and symptoms, and available treatment options.
Lesson 1: Psychological Health
This lesson relates psychological health to common mental health issues and compares well-being to psychological illness.
Lesson 2: Common Psychological Health Issues
This lesson lists and explains familiar psychological health issues like burnout, anxiety, depression, and substance misuse. This lesson also explains suicide, and we encourage learners to practice self-care and take things at their own pace in this lesson.
Lesson 3: What are the Signs and Symptoms?
This lesson will help learners be aware of the signs and symptoms of common mental health issues. Both personal and workplace warning signs are explored. This lesson also explores how to help someone who is suffering from a mental health issue.
Lesson 4: What are Some Treatment Options?
This lesson provides an overview of some of the most common treatment options, like CBT, therapy, medication, and social support.
Stay Mentally Healthy & Resilient
Did you know that 1 in 5 Canadians is currently experiencing a mental health issue?
In this module, learners will gain insight into the importance of psychological well-being, effectively managing stress, and self-care practices. Learners will finish the course with the tools to maintain good mental health, and tackle stress in their everyday life.
Lesson 1: What is Psychological Health?
This lesson uses the WHO’s definition of psychological health to expand upon what it means to be psychologically healthy. There is a focus on mental health in Canada.
Lesson 2: Stress!
This lesson explains what stress is, the different types of stress, its origins and impacts, and how we can use stress to our advantage.
Lesson 3: How to Manage Stress
This lesson helps identify ways to manage stress through a variety of methods, including avoiding stressors, creating routine, and seeking professional advice.
Lesson 4: How to Improve Your Psychological Health
This lesson focuses on self-care and finding balance in life to ensure healthy psychological health.
Improve Work-Life Harmony
How often does work interfere in your personal life? How often does your personal life interfere with your work?
In this module, learners gain useful skills and strategies for cultivating increased harmony, or integration, between their work and personal lives, which in turn can enhance their overall psychological well-being.
In this module, learners gain useful skills and strategies for cultivating increased harmony, or integration, between their work and personal lives, which in turn can enhance their overall psychological well-being.
Lesson 1: What is Work Life Harmony?
This lesson looks at the current realities of work-life harmony, how to differentiate between harmony and balance, applying work-life harmony, and the risk of burnout.
Lesson 2: Values and Needs
This lesson explores what exactly values and needs are, and how they impact our daily lives, decision-making, and goals.
Lesson 3: How to Achieve Work-Life Harmony
This lesson gives practical examples of how to achieve work-life harmony. Learners are taught how to make conscious choices and avoid doing “half-things”. Learners are reminded of how to be realistic about finding work-life harmony, how to find flow activities and work with passion, how to prioritize relationships, and how to set boundaries while creating structure.
Lesson 4: Work-Life Harmony For You
In this lesson, specific examples of challenges to work-life harmony are explored. Topics range from how to support a workaholic, getting motivated after a vacation, minimalism and decluttering, alone time in relationships, disconnecting to connect, to sleep hygiene and shift work.
Get a Good Night’s Sleep COMING SOON
We can all relate to the feeling of being sleep-deprived and equally to the feeling of a great night’s sleep. Sleep is a critical physiological function during which our bodies and brains rejuvenate. Science also shows that sleep is essential to our overall physical and emotional well-being.
Despite its importance, many of us don’t prioritize sleep as much as we should. One-third of working Canadians struggle with chronic sleep difficulties.
In this module, learners develop knowledge and techniques to enhance their sleep.
Despite its importance, many of us don’t prioritize sleep as much as we should. One-third of working Canadians struggle with chronic sleep difficulties.
In this module, learners develop knowledge and techniques to enhance their sleep.
Lesson 1: The Importance of Sleep
In this lesson, learners are familiarized with the basics of healthy sleep. The importance of sleep, impacts of reduced sleep, normal sleep patterns, circadian rhythms, the stages of sleep, and factors impacting sleep are all covered.
Lesson 2: Common Sleep Problems
In this lesson, learners will explore common sleep problems like the persistent maladaptive cycle, dyssomnias, parasomnias, medical and psychiatric sleep problems, narcolepsy, jet lag, and dreams.
Lesson 3: Healthy Sleep Hygiene
There are many things that can directly affect our ability to get a good night’s sleep. This lesson will help learners identify ways they can better their sleep hygiene through minimizing stress, anxiety, and worry. Additionally, learners will explore classical conditioning, their daytime activities, diet and nutrition, bedroom environment, and bedtime routines.
Lesson 4: Other Interventions
This lesson focuses on other options to improve sleep, such as medications, melatonin, light therapy and phototherapy, CBT interventions, and the intersection of sleep and shift work.
Show Civility and Respect
COMING SOON
Civility and Respect is one of the 13 psychosocial factors that are encompassed within the best practice frame of the National Standard for Psychological Health & Safety in the Workplace. However, it’s a factor that cuts across all elements to the heart of mental health.
Our relationships, from our acquaintances to our closest friends, to our colleagues, to our bosses can be pretty amazing — but also complicated.
In this module, learners will get insights into civil and respectful communication and how to manage conflict effectively.
Our relationships, from our acquaintances to our closest friends, to our colleagues, to our bosses can be pretty amazing — but also complicated.
In this module, learners will get insights into civil and respectful communication and how to manage conflict effectively.
Lesson 1: What is Civility and Respect?
This lesson establishes what civility, respect, diversity, and inclusion are. Learners will also come to understand bias, and how to overcome or “bust” bias.
Lesson 2: Common Communication Issues
This lesson explores why we are conflict averse, and what connection bids are. It also describes different types of communication issues, like passive communication, aggressive communication, and passive-aggressive communication.
Lesson 3: How to Improve Communication
This lesson will help learners improve their own communication skills. Assertive communication, non-verbal communication, how to become a better listener, and how to be a better speaker are all topics that aim to aid the learner to become a more effective communicator.
Lesson 4: How to Manage Interpersonal Conflict
This lesson tackles the challenging topic of managing interpersonal conflict. The learner will be given tips for difficult conversations, and will learn how to say no. The learner is also offered other acronymic strategies for managing interpersonal conflict, like DEAR MAN, GIVE, and FAST.
Additional Resources
Organizational Culture
Psychological and Social Support
Clear Leadership and Expectations
Civility and Respect
Psychological Demands
Growth and Development
Recognition and Reward
Involvement and Influence
Workload Management
Engagement
Balance
Psychological Protection
Protection of Physical Safety
Frequently Asked Questions
Why should I purchase this program vs others?
MyWorkplaceHealth is a national consulting firm that provides a comprehensive range of services from psychological health and safety assessment, to certified training programs.
Our certificate programs are aimed at people leaders and employees and offer a comprehensive psychological health and safety solution that is informed by clinical practice and are developed by certified instructional designers under ISO/ANSI continuing education standards. The programs are also aligned with CSA Z1003 National Standard for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace, ISO 45003 Psychological Health and Safety at Work & US Surgeon General's Framework for Workplace Mental Health and Well-Being.
What are CEU's?
The Continuing Education Unit (CEU) is an internationally recognized method of quantifying the time spent in the classroom during professional development and training activities. MWH adheres to the CEU definition provided by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) of 1 CEU = 10 contact hours. Although the term CEU is often used in generic context, IACET identifies that 'only accredited providers who have been approved by the IACET commission are allowed to award IACET CEUs'.