Personal and Professional Wellbeing for Australian Medical Women
Resources, links, tips and information. If you have suggestions on additional resources we could list, we would love to hear from you. You can contact us here.
Your Wellbeing
“To be our best selves, we must care for ourselves.”
ACT resources
NSW resources
NT resources
SA resources
TAS resources
This list of resources is compiled in large part from resources shared by Dr Ira van der Steenstraten at the AFMW Open Forum on Doctor Wellbeing held on October 24.
COVID related
- Perceived Stress Scale: www.bemindfulonline.com/test-your-stress
- Beyond Blue – Coronavirus wellbeing tools
- Australian Psychological Society
- Phoenix Australia
- Pandemic Kindness movement
- “Face Covid – How to respond effectively to the corona crisis” by Dr Russ Harris. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmvNCdpHUYM
Face COVID
- Focus on what you do have control over
- Acknowledge your thoughts and feelings
- Come back into your body
- Engage in what you are doing
- Committee action
- Opening Up
- Values
- Identify resources
- Disinfect and distance
Self Compassion
- How mindfulness fosters compassion, by Prof Paul Gilbert. Available on youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz9Fr_v9Okw
- Dr Kristin Neff: Self Compassion Test
self-compassion.org/test-how-self-compassionate-you-are/ - Dr Lydia Pitcher and Dr Ira Van Dr Steenstraten – Dear Dr, find someone you trust and start talking
General Resources
- ‘Understanding job burnout’ by Dr Christina Maslach (see video)
- The Joyful Doctor
- HandnHand
- Drs4Drs
- Australasian Doctors’ Health Network
- Treating a health professional with mental health issues – a webinar
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