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| Japan Earthquake/Tsunami (14/03/2011) | | By IPS Worldwide | | There is no doubt that we witnessed on Friday 11th March what will be considered one of the most significant natural disasters in the Pacific Region for many years. The media images of the earthquakes and tsunamis in Japan and the contacts we have had with people within this region have given us an insight to the magnitude of the tragedy unfolding. | | 3/14/2011 |
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| SWINE FLU ALERT! What to do to prevent Swine flu… | | By By Bonnie McKenzie, IPS Clinical Manager | | Swine influenza A (H1N1) virus infection has been identified in USA and with some cases reported internationally. Infectious diseases are transferable and can easily spread, many people are getting anxious. How real is the threat? What can we do to keep safe if an outbreak does occur?
When it comes to a health crisis such as the possible Swine influenza A (H1N1) a virus infection outbreak, we are told to stay informed but stay calm. This is easier said than done.
What we must keep in | | 4/28/2009 |
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| Organisational 'Know-How' | | By Bonnie McKenzie, IPS Consulting Senior Clinical Manager | | Successful and satisfied employees put real effort into understanding how their organisations work - both the formal and informal processes. Sometimes the answer to ‘How do we get things done around here?’ is a combination of what you know and who you know who can assist you. | | 5/9/2007 |
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| Sleep and ageing | | By Alexandra Marshall, IPS Worldwide | | Do you have trouble falling asleep? Do you sleep deeply for 3 hours and then wake up during the night? Maybe you wake up several times each night, never getting more than a couple of hours sleep at a time. If you relate to any of these situations, you are definitely not alone. | | 5/2/2007 |
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| Women around the world celebrate International Women’s Day | | By Jodie McLeod | | Wednesday March 8 marks a day of international celebration and commemoration for the advancement of women’s rights, and aims to raise awareness for the progress still yet to be made. International Women’s Day (IWD) will see the world’s women and men unite through global conferences, street rallies, political lobbying and public holidays, calling for women’s equality in the areas of employment, health, politics and more. | | 3/7/2006 |
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| How YOU can better handle stress at work! | | By By Dr Jim Jupp & Carolyn Hodges, IPS Psychologists | | Learn to delegate; Do not let the environment rule you; Be tidy and create order in your environment; Take lunch breaks.... | | 9/2/2005 |
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| Ten Ways to Bounce Back from Challenges | | By IPS Worldwide | | Staying resilient is like staying in shape - some are born lucky, but most of us have to work at it. Below you’ll find ten ways to bounce back from challenges and change and the pressures you face at work and at home. | | 9/2/2005 |
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| How YOU can better handle Stress | | By Dr Jim Jupp & Carolyn Hodges, IPS Psychologists | | When you feel your life is out of control there are some general aspects which you should review and consider... | | 10/18/2004 |
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| IPS City to Surf Athletes! | | By Kim Sullivan, Chief Financial Officer | | A crack team of IPS Worldwide employees recently took part in the Sydney City to Surf. Olympic calibre? Maybe not, but a pleasing result! | | 8/9/2004 |
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| Evaluating Your Current Career | | By Bonnie McKenzie, Clinical Manager, IPS Worldwide | | No one’s job is perfect. But should you find yourself becoming unhappy with what you are doing it is time to assess your current job- to identify the parts you like best and those you like least. Here on some tips on how to evaluate your career NOW. | | 8/1/2004 |
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| Making & Maintaining Good Personal Relationships | | By Bonnie McKenzie, Senior Clinical Manager, IPS Worldwide | | What makes for successful relationships?
People will continue to seek personal fulfilment
and happiness through sharing their lives with
a partner. It is important to remember that in
spite of a high divorce rate, nearly 2 out of 3
couples do stay together. | | 6/22/2004 |
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| 4 Key Questions to Ask Your Partner | | By Bonnie McKenzie, Senior Clinical Manager, IPS Worldwide | | Intimacy is a critical part of successful
relationships and requires two motivated and
cooperative partners to agree on what is
important and pleasurable to them both.
Discussing these issues openly with each other
is a key relationship skill. | | 6/22/2004 |
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| Constant Media Coverage: How it affects your children! | | By Dr Jim Jupp, IPS Senior Clinical Manager | | When a traumatic event happens there is instantly a virtually continuous loop of 24-hour TV news coverage which inflicts our children with images of death and destruction. The sound and sights of bleeding shattered bodies, many of them children, and possible worst of all the shouted often hysterical comments of reporters about these events inundate us. Like the coverage of a War, the news coverage of a traumatic event can be equally disturbing to viewers, both young and old. | | 6/1/2004 |
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| Client Intake Resources Centre | | By IPS Worldwide | | IPS Worldwide is proud to launch its new resource centre for reception / intake staff. This is a spearhead for a number of new initiatives at improving the overall quality of our operations and ensuring you have timely information and up to date knowledge.
By registering your information you will be issued a username and password to access this system. Please utilise the 'Join Us Now' prompt which is on the right hand side of the screen to obtain the relevant credentials. | | 3/4/2004 |
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| Six Step Trauma Process | | By Joanne Crosby, IPS Worldwide | | IPS Worldwide implements a succinct six-step process for coping with a traumatic or critical situation. | | 2/25/2004 |
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| IPS Worldwide - The HR Resource Company | | By IPS Worldwide | | A good Employee Assistance Program can help a company grow as a whole, a badly managed program can stall the company and encourage negativity. The next time you choose a HR partner, don't just scratch the surface - dig deep! | | 2/13/2004 |
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| What Makes a Good EAP? | | By IPS Worldwide | | An Employee Assistance Program is by definition an employer funded program which is confidential, effective, early and minimum intervention program. These programs address work-related and personal issues which may affect productivity and job performance, as well as the health of the employee. EAPs assist both supervisors and employees to resolve issues which are affecting their day-to-day lives. | | 2/13/2004 |
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| The EAP and What It Delivers | | By IPS Worldwide | | The Employee Assistance Program (EAP) is available to all employees and their immediate family. It is a free service offered by your employer who believes that less
stress = a happier and more productive workforce. | | 2/9/2004 |
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| Psychometric Assessment: Powerful Data with Strategic Application | | By IPS Worldwide | | Psychometric assessment is a powerful way for organisations to gain insight in the cognitive ability, personality traits, motivations and behavioural styles of individuals that may not be apparent at face value or during a selection process. IPS Worldwide is committed to providing the highest standards of practice in the implementation and analysis of psychometric tools. | | 2/9/2004 |
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| Exploring the Life Coaching Experience | | By IPS Worldwide | | Understanding and optimising the human factor in organisations is crucial to our work. Helping facilitate organisational change is an essential capability. Coaching the highest levels of management is a stimulating challenge.
IPS Worldwide is responding to your needs with one of the most beneficial management programs... | | 2/9/2004 |
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| What is CEAP? | | By Bob Smith | | The CEAP is an Internationally recognised qualification. Those who earn the designation "Certified Employee Assistance Professional (CEAP)" meet the standard of EAP knowledge established by their peers in the Employee Assistance field. This is demonstrated by passing the CEAP examination, which is developed by the Employee Assistance Certification Commission in the United States. | | 2/9/2004 |
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| Men & Their Health | | By Guy Robbins, IPS Psychologist | | What is it with men? They excel in so many areas in life – business, sport, the arts, but so many fail miserably to look after their health, particularly their mental and emotional health! | | 12/1/2003 |
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| The Importance of Being Positive | | By Bonnie McKenzie, IPS Clinical Manager | | EAP counselling tends to be short term and solutions focused. People want to solve problems and get on with it. Emphasing a positive focus assists us in moving toward solutions rather than dwelling on what went wrong –with the workplace or in our interpersonal relationships. | | 12/1/2003 |
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| Counsellor Resources Centre | | By IPS Worldwide | | IPS Worldwide is proud to launch its new resource centre for counsellors. This is a spearhead for a number of new initiatives at improving the overall quality of our operations and ensuring you have timely information and up to date knowledge. This centre will give you access to contact details and policies, procedures and guidelines. | | 11/10/2003 |
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| What is an EAP | | By Robin Smith, CEO & Managing Director, IPS Worldwide | | | 9/16/2003 |
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| Psychological Abuse - A Workplace Issue | | By Bonnie McKenzie, IPS Clinical Manager | | The concept of a school bully conjures up a specific stereotype and does not translate well into the workplace. | | 9/1/2003 |
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| Step-Families | | By Susan Glenn-Hume, IPS Worldwide | | Stepfamily life is not well understood from the outside. Mention "stepfamily" and what comes to mind first is either the saccharine unreality of "The Brady Bunch" or the strange wickedness of all those fairytale stepmothers. | | 9/1/2003 |
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| A Business Case for Human Resources - Risk Management & Health Services | | By Bob Smith, Professional Services Director, IPS Worldwide | | Human Resources Risk Management and Health Services for many companies is no longer considered a choice, it is a basic necessity for companies to survive, to cope with change, and to build strategic advantages. The question is not whether to adopt programs like EAP and Work-Life, but how. | | 9/1/2003 |
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| Women Can Have Post-Christmas Distress | | By Dr Jim Jupp, IPS Clinical Manager | | A number of clients see counsellors in the early part of the New Year about depression. At least some of this, we discover, has to do with fairly traditional ideas associated with the festive season. | | 9/1/2003 |
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| The Manager HelpLine - a tool for Managers | | By IPS Worldwide | | The role of managers and supervisors is more complex today than ever before. Organisations are undergoing so many changes and so frequently that this can take it’s toll on team cohesion and productivity. Conflict within teams is a very common result of long-term change. | | 9/1/2003 |
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| OH&S Legislation Psychological Safety, Stress and EAP Support | | By IPS Worldwide | | A recent newsletter of the Emergency Support Network, edited by Michael Tunnecliffe, suggested that Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) can provide a range of resources which assist organisations in the maintenance of ‘Psychological Safety’. This term refers to the psychological climate of organisations and to the provisions (or lack of them), which enhances (or fails to enhance) the mental and emotional well being of employees. | | 8/1/2003 |
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| The Emotionally Intelligent Organisation | | By Bonnie McKenzie, IPS Clinical Manager | | In the past few years organisations have changed their hiring strategies to include not only people who are well trained and have the expertise desired, but who can also demonstrate that they can handle themselves and others in a variety of work situations. This can be demonstrated through having empathy, being persuasive, showing initiative and getting on well with others. These abilities are collectively called Emotional Intelligence or EQ and, unlike our IQ, can be continuously improved. In | | 7/1/2003 |
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| Golden Rules - Spanish | | By IPS Worldwide | | The Golden Rules are a quick list of the minimum approach to answering a client call and responding appropriately. Please review the language version you will find most helpful. | | 5/12/2003 |
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| Golden Rules - German | | By IPS Worldwide | | The Golden Rules are a quick list of the minimum approach to answering a client call and responding appropriately. Please review the language version you will find most helpful. | | 5/12/2003 |
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| Golden Rules - Chinese Traditional | | By IPS Worldwide | | The Golden Rules are a quick list of the minimum approach to answering a client call and responding appropriately. Please review the language version you will find most helpful. | | 5/12/2003 |
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| Golden Rules - Italian | | By IPS Worldwide | | The Golden Rules are a quick list of the minimum approach to answering a client call and responding appropriately. Please review the language version you will find most helpful. | | 5/12/2003 |
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| Golden Rules - Korean | | By IPS Worldwide | | The Golden Rules are a quick list of the minimum approach to answering a client call and responding appropriately. Please review the language version you will find most helpful. | | 5/12/2003 |
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| Golden Rules - Chinese Simplified | | By IPS Worldwide | | The Golden Rules are a quick list of the minimum approach to answering a client call and responding appropriately. Please review the language version you will find most helpful. | | 5/12/2003 |
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| Golden Rules - Japanese | | By IPS Worldwide | | The Golden Rules are a quick list of the minimum approach to answering a client call and responding appropriately. Please review the language version you will find most helpful. | | 5/12/2003 |
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| Counselling Manual | | By IPS Worldwide | | Cousellors are a valuable resource to IPS. This manual is to assist counsellors to do the best job possible by giving the current information on our procedures. | | 5/12/2003 |
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| Induction Manual | | By IPS Worldwide | | Client Coordinators are a valuable resource to IPS Worldwide. This manual is to assist client coordinators who work DIRECTLY for IPS Worldwide to do the best job possible by giving the current information on our procedures. | | 5/12/2003 |
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| Golden Rules - English | | By IPS Worldwide | | The Golden Rules are a quick list of the minimum approach to answering a client call and responding appropriately. Please review the language version you will find most helpful. | | 5/12/2003 |
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| Golden Rules - French | | By IPS Worldwide | | The Golden Rules are a quick list of the minimum approach to answering a client call and responding appropriately. Please review the language version you will find most helpful. | | 5/12/2003 |
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| "Referral" Mostly The Best Option | | By IPS Worldwide | | Stress associated with personal family problems impedes work productivity and experienced managers know this. In many instances managers also know about a particular employees non-work stressors (e.g. gambling, relationship problems). Sometimes they may attempt active solutions for problems, which outside of the workplace relationship, could work well. However, with most active attempts by managers to solve workers problems it is likely to be a mistake. | | 8/1/2002 |
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| EAP Business Case 101 | | By Bob Smith, Professional Services Director, IPS Worldwide | | In this installment we’ll look at the issues behind making a business case for having an EAP in your organisation. The company financial people want it, managers want it and champions of EAPs would love ‘harder’ evidence that there is a bottom-line benefit to be had. | | 8/1/2002 |
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| EAP Managers & Coordinators | | By IPS Worldwide | | IPS Worldwide have the right tools so that you can educate your employees about the provision of an EAP in their workplace. | | 4/1/2002 |
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| Work Life Balance Programs | | By IPS Worldwide | | Studies have revealed that occasionally family responsibilities will interfere with work and this effectively produces a constant struggle between work and family. | | 4/1/2002 |
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| Drink Driving - A Crying Shame | | By IPS Worldwide | | It’s a crying shame, but over the coming holiday period 100’s of people will be seriously affected by drink driving. Children will lose parents, friends will injure friends, workmates won’t be coming back from holidays. | | 12/1/2000 |
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| Frequent flyer | | By IPS Worldwide | | As many of our readers are frequent flyers, we thought you might enjoy these useful business travel related links. | | 12/1/2000 |
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| Hypnosis | | By Kay Bennett, IPS Worldwide | | Hypnosis has long been associated with theatrical magic shows and rarely thought of as an effective medical tool. However, more and more helping professionals are realising how useful hypnosis can be. | | 12/1/2000 |
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| The Olympics are Coming! | | By Robin Smith, CEO & Managing Director, IPS Worldwide | | The lead up to the Olympic Games has affected all Australians in many ways. Feelings of excitement, national pride and spirit have been present in all of us in varying degrees since the announcement. | | 6/1/2000 |
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| Anti Social Personality | | By Dr Jim Jupp, IPS Clinical Manager | | What is an Anti Social Personality? Recently IPS have been asked by organisations who are dealing with conflicts and other problematic issues created by staff members with the condition to explain more about it. | | 3/1/2000 |
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| Schizophrenia | | By Dr Jim Jupp, IPS Clinical Manager | | In the main, people with stress related psychological problems see a connection between symptoms and cause Similarly, they are generally aware about the impact of their stress-related behaviour on others. They live unhappy (hopefully for relatively short periods) in a real world. | | 12/1/1999 |
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| Caffeine - A Drug to Stir? | | By IPS Worldwide | | Caffeine is the world’s most popular drug. Found in coffee, tea, soft drinks, chocolate and some pharmaceutical drugs, caffeine is a drug with more problems than many people realise. | | 12/1/1999 |
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| What is CEAP® Certification? | | By IPS Worldwide | | Those who earn the designation "Certified Employee Assistance Professional (CEAP)" meet the standard of EAP knowledge established by their peers in the EA field. This is demonstrated by passing the CEAP exam, which is developed by the Employee Assistance Certification Commission. | | 12/1/1999 |
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| Experiential Recruitment | | By IPS Worldwide | | Group behavioural assess ments for recruitment have fallen in and out of vogue since the 1940’s, when the German, British and Australian Armies first used them for officer training selection. In the military, they were referred to as the War Office Selection Board (WOSB) procedure. | | 9/1/1999 |
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| Seasonal Depression | | By Dr Jim Jupp, IPS Clinical Manager | | Spring to most people means a time to rejoice with the onset of warmer weather, sunnier days and an end to the sniffles. To some however it may be even more gratifying as the symptoms of severe depression begin to ease. | | 9/1/1999 |
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| Somatization | | By Dr Jim Jupp, IPS Clinical Manager | | Information about the prevalence of mental disorders in Australia is limited. However, mental disorders are common and in 1992 it was estimated that up to 19.5% of our adult population and 16% of children are affected at any one time. | | 9/1/1999 |
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| Being a First Line Manager | | By IPS Worldwide | | Being a first line manager is one of the hardest roles a person can play, often described as being "between a rock and a hard place" or the "meat in the sandwich". The role is made harder when the new managers may be fairly young, possibly in their 20’s, have risen from the "pack" and must now break old relationships and establish new ones. | | 6/1/1999 |
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| Communication Breakdown | | By Dawn Cohen, IPS Worldwide | | You come home from work. You are exhausted, hungry and ready to plonk yourself in front of the telly with a beer and a sandwich. Unfortunately, this is not what the rest of the family have in mind for you. | | 9/1/1998 |
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| What is EAPA? | | By IPS Worldwide | | EAPA is the Employee Assistance Professionals Association - the official Australian Chapter of an international professional organisation. | | 9/1/1998 |
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| Panic Attacks & Agrophobia | | By Dr Jim Jupp, IPS Clinical Manager | | A panic attack comes out of the blue and without apparent references to life events. An attack is marked by fear that escalates to terror. Then within 10 minutes or less its gone. While it lasts there is a sense of danger, doom, a need to escape and of being close to death, from a heart attack or stroke. Sometimes present and less frightening can be a feeling of detachment, from self and reality. | | 9/1/1998 |
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| Smoking & Pregnancy | | By IPS Worldwide | | There are more than a thousand harmful chemicals and poisons in cigarette smoke. Some can reach the baby through the umbilical cord. Every puff a pregnant woman takes increases the level of carbon monoxide in her bloodstream and reduces the amount of oxygen available to the baby. | | 6/1/1998 |
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| Depression | | By Dr Jim Jupp, IPS Clinical Manager | | All of us have felt sad occasionally and this helps to define our humanity. Many of us have had more extended episodes of sadness which are easy enough to relate to death of a partner, divorce, loss of a job and so on. Mostly this normal reactive sadnesses, although terrible for a time, pass quickly enough and we are able to get on with life again much as before. | | 6/1/1998 |
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| Juggling Work & Family | | By Dawn Cohen, IPS Worldwide | | As we approach the 21st Century, changing sex roles has resulted in more and more men as well as women juggling work commitments with family duties. | | 6/1/1998 |
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| Selecting a Counsellor | | By Dr Jim Jupp, IPS Clinical Manager | | A casual reader of the psychological literature will notice that the terms counselling and psychotherapy are often used interchangeably to describe the same or similar situations. This where one person purposely attempts to help another either cope with or change troublesome behaviour, feelings and aspects of personality. | | 3/1/1998 |
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| Experiential Interviewing: A New Method of Recruitment | | By IPS Worldwide | | Over the past two years, IPS has been developing a new method of recruitment. Partly due to Client demand and also due to the need to select the best staff for our own organisation, we decided to approach recruitment from a different angle. | | 9/1/1997 |
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| Death of a Princess | | By IPS Worldwide | | Following the death of Lady Diana the world wept.
The outpouring of grief has been unlike any other event in recent history. For many people this was a time to grieve for a beautiful woman committed to helping others, a vulnerable person who understood personally the effect of a difficult childhood and a broken marriage. | | 7/1/1997 |
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| That Dangerous Smoko! | | By IPS Worldwide | | It is now very common to see employees from organisations with smokefree workplaces standing outside their offices having a quick smoko break. However, new Australian research indicates that these workers puff harder and faster than those with no time constraints. Smokers observed in beer gardens and shopping malls took an average of 5.6 minutes to finish a cigarette, compared with 3.9 minutes for office workers having a quick smoko. | | 6/1/1997 |
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| A quick stress test | | By IPS Worldwide | | Below are a number of ‘normal’ life events. Place a circle around the numbers in the ‘value’ column for each of those events that have happened to you during the past 12 months. | | 6/1/1997 |
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