Mental Health Resources
- Perceived Stress Scale: https://das.nh.gov/wellness/docs/percieved%20stress%20scale.pdf
You can measure your own stress by using this link.
- Mind Tools – Managing Stress: https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/managing-stress.
htm
Mind Tools is a professional development website with multiple free resources for managing
stress.
- Stress Tools: https://www.mindtools.com/pages/main/newMN_TCS.htm
Provides strategies to understand and reduce stress.
- Stress Diary: https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTCS_01.htm
Stress Diary is an excellent template put together by Mindtools.com. It helps make us aware
of when we are stressed, how we get stressed and how often we are stressed. Once you’ve
identified how you exhibit stress, you can start fleshing out a plan that works best for you.
- Stress Management PDF: https://www.therapistaid.com/worksheets/stress-management.pdf
It will help you to put in place some solid solutions, such as social supports, emotional skills,
ideas for a healthy life balance, and how you can best attend to your basic needs.
- Ten Point Plan: http://www.fosteringresilience.com/pdf/stress_management_plan.pdf
This ten-point plan from www.fosteringresilience.com is easy to put together to help manage
your stress.
- Stress Assess: https://stressassess.ca/
Stress Assess is a free tool and resource provided by the Occupational Health Clinics
for Ontario Workers that was developed to address specific concerns within the Canadian
workplace.
- Healthy Minds at Work (Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety):
https://www.ccohs.ca/healthyminds/
This is a Government of Canada website that includes hundreds of resources to achieve
psychologically healthy work environments. You can find everything on this website from
legislation to stress mitigation strategies.
- Mental Injury Tool Kit: https://www.ohcow.on.ca/mental-injury-toolkit.html
This guide and resource kit provides workers with a basic understanding and a place to start
to learn about workplace stress and what to do about it. The guide gives definitions and
provides information on common causes of mental distress, legal frameworks (focusing on
Ontario), possible actions to take, and resources available. It is an introduction and action
guide created by workers for workers.