Stress,Trauma & Emotional Wellness for Women in Africa
Shibero (Ms) Akatsa:
Registered Clinical Therapist/Psychosocial Consultant & Life Coach. (UKRCP; IATA. RELATE.UK)
SERVICES
We specialize in reducing psychological injury and promoting mental wellness, in vulnerable organizations. This is achieved by strengthening mental resilience in individuals through psychological interventions, and enhancing care systems that promote mental wellness, in organizations and communities. We focus on the following services:
* Stress Management
* Psychosocial Services for Humanitarian
& Development Organizations
* Diversity Consultancy for International Teams
STRESS MANAGEMENT CONSULTANCY
We combine our understanding of well-being, current analytical tools and practical solutions to reduce the causes of stress in the workplace. We can help your organisation to:
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Recognise stress related issues in the workplace
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Manage stress within the organisation through training
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Investigate the root causes of stress
We will work with you to reduce the effects of stress on staff and help you create a healthy workplace that enables staff to be more productive.
IMPACT OF STRESS IN THE WORKPLACE
Depression is often triggered by an accumulation of stress, that goes untreated.The workplace is a place where ongoing stress is generated daily. Although work related stress is not an illness the psychological impact does make employees more vulnerable to depression, especially women as reflected in the figures below:
Women & Depression in Africa:
* 66 million women are affected by depression
* 25 million of those affected are in urban centers .
* 9.5 million of those working in urban centers in formal employment, entrepreneurs in senior management are most vulnerable to chronic stress, chronic fatigue syndrome and depression
Women in the workplace, are three times more vulnerable to depression. Considering women contribute more than 50% of the workforce, there is a case for supporting women's mental wellness through providing them with sustainable resilience skills and creating an environment that will enable women to be productive, without acquiring mental ill health.
Depression affects your employees
Depression can affect your workers’ productivity, judgment, ability to work with others, and overall job performance. The inability to concentrate fully or make decisions may lead to costly mistakes or accidents. In addition, it has been shown that depressed individual s have high rates of absenteeism and are more likely to abuse alcohol and drugs, resulting in other problems on and off the job.
Unfortunately, many depressed people suffer needlessly because they feel embarrassed, fear being perceived as weak or do not recognize depression as a treatable illness.
HUMANITARIAN & INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS
We offer psycho-social consultancy services assisting humanitarian and development organisations to develop, enhance and sustain their own in-house systems of staff support. Our consultancy services include:
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Psychosocial Recruitment Consultancy – tailored psychosocial risk management approach to recruitment to maximise retention and fit
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Psychosocial Preparation and Injury Prevention – psychological pre- and post-deployment briefing/debriefing programs; staff care system review, monitoring and evaluation
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Counselling Review and Strategy – review current counselling services and make recommendations in the interests of improved mental health and wellbeing.
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Staff Counselling and Psychotherapy - this is to support families and individuals experiencing post traumatic stress and those struggling to readjust to the new culture.
Our consultancy services can be tailored to meet the needs of particular organisations or groups of staff.
DIVERSITY: INTERNATIONAL TEAMS
We live in a global world and work in global teams. We can help individuals and teams so that they understand their own attitudes, values, strengths and how they perceive others. This affects how people interact and we work to develop a shared understanding of an inclusive approach. We explore interventions to encourage and support behavioral change or to make reasonable adjustments.
Our aim is to support managers, teams and individuals so that they work more effectively and efficiently together and individual strengths are maximised.
Looking to Improve the Well-being of Your Employees and Organisation? contact us on :
SYMPTOMS OF DEPRESSION IN EMPLOYEES
In the workplace, symptoms of depression often may be recognized by
* Decreased productivity
* Morale problems
* Lack of cooperation
* Safety risks, accidents
* Absenteeism
* Frequent statements about being tired all the time
* Complaints of unexplained aches and pains
* Alcohol and/or drug abuse
If four or more of the symptoms of depression or mania persist for more than two weeks, or are interfering with work or family life, a thorough diagnosis is need.
