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What this work stress Institute is forFirstly, we investigate and research fundamental aspects of stress, modern lifestyles and, in particular, work practices and behaviours to enable us to bring as fresh an approach as we can to a problem that causes millions of lost days at work, extraordinary amounts of unhappiness, illness and loss of quality of life – and splits thousands of parents, children and once successful and healthy working relationships apart. Secondly, because the consensus is that, currently, therapists working with people affected by job-stress are in hopelessly short supply and, often, involved with other work, Ergo-RICE is overseeing the establishment of a dedicated, independently accredited, ethical and effective series of training programmes. The Institute is also charged with a number of educational programmes about excess stress and how it affects our lives at home and at work. These are now largely undertaken by The Stress Council which undertakes visits to clinicians in fields where stress has a considerable effect on recovery, to employers who want to minimise their exposure to the illness and to HR, Health & Safety, Occupational Health and Legal Departments in both commercial and public organisations. In the past 5 years, the principals have found that curing people affected by job-stress is, by far, most successfully achieved by quite short one-to-one therapy programmes which work within our clients’ belief systems about their job, its place in their life – and what they want to achieve. This is linked to simultaneous consultations with other clinicians to relieve the physical symptoms. For people more seriously affected by excess stress, we have pioneered rehabilitation methodologies and aim to have the first dedicated facility in Europe. Combined with a confident, positive approach from the employer, a swift return to work is the norm. We now believe that the most common causes of excess slow-stress (of which job-stress is a type) is a dysfunction of memory and an almost universal misunderstanding of the relationships we are all obliged to establish within our jobs. This is an inherently common condition caused by the mind’s development, rather than something that should cause debilitating loss of self-esteem, often to the level of acute, life-threatening depression, because people feel they have failed. So, for the first time there is a charitable research institute dedicated to tackling the prevention, and cure, of job-stress. We hope you will join those who consider it a major step forward.
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What we're forWhy organisations use us as their employees' job-stress reporting station
Helping us help people affected by job-stress
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The Research Institute for Clinical Ergology. | |
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