Mental Wellbeing: Avoiding Burnout

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Mental health issues affect more than half of all accountants and account for the majority of days lost due to ill health. This course offers practical ways to help us maintain our own mental health and help to create a happy and accepting work environment.

£100 +VAT

4 CPD hours

120 days’ access

Use ACPD101 for 10% off any purchase.

Mental Wellbeing: Avoiding Burnout

£100 +VAT

4 CPD hours 120 days’ access
Use ACPD101 for 10% off any purchase.

Mental Wellbeing: Avoiding Burnout

This course is not currently available. To find out more, please get in touch.

This course will enable you to

  • Understand the mental wellbeing issues affecting the accounting sector.
  • Maintain your own mental wellbeing, and help others do the same.
  • Recognise signs of burnout in you and in your colleagues.
  • Appreciate the importance of physical health in maintaining mental health.
  • Help create a happy and accepting work environment.

About the course

Recent ICAEW research reported over 30% of accountants suffering from mental health issues and 51% admitting that depression and anxiety leave them dreading going to work. With more than half of all days lost to ill health accounted for by work-related stress, depression or anxiety, it’s in everyone’s interest to talk openly about and address mental wellbeing in the workplace. That’s the only way to ensure that we enjoy our work and can help our colleagues do the same.

This course highlights practical ways to help us maintain our mental health and identify risk factors, and it offers solutions for coping when we feel low.

It also explores the relationship between mental wellbeing, workplace demands, and the way we interact with those around us. It provides guidance on how to create a happy and accepting work environment.

Contents

Understanding mental wellbeing

Defining mental wellbeing
The science of stress
Recognising the signs
Struggles in the industry
Why all the fuss about mental health?
The cost of investing in mental wellbeing
Stigma

Addressing burnout

Defining burnout
Self-medicating
Burnout in accountants
Reporting burnout
A legal duty

Building resilience

The power of resilience
Building resilience
Food, fitness and mood
Going deep on sleep
Rest and relaxation
Staying happy
The science of happiness
Strategies for coping with stress

Creating a happier workplace

Who burns out?
Practical initiatives
Helping yourself
Hybrid working
The role of managers

How it works

Author

Kirsty Hunter

Kirsty Hunter

Kirsty Hunter is an editor and journalist with more than 25 years in the publishing industry, working on content covering international education, nursing and mental health, the hospitality sector, art collections, banking, finance and technology, as well as accounting and financial reporting for accountingcpd.net. Kirsty has been involved in the production of children’s magazines and card collections for brands including Disney, Marvel, DC, Warner, Pokemon, LEGO and BBC Top of the Pops Magazine.