Occupational Wellness: getting personal fulfillment from your job or academic pursuits, and contributing to knowledge and skills, while maintaining a work-life balance
Resources to Read
Website: Overview of occupational wellness with examples of signs of occupational wellness and suggestions on improving occupational wellness.
Website: Provides information on workplace statistics, description of occupational wellness, and explains its importance. The site describes how to achieve optimal occupational wellness, with eight suggestions to begin your journey.
Website: The article explores the concept of occupational wellness and goes into detail on signs of occupational wellness. It also identifies signs of poor occupational wellness and provides holistic suggestions and tips on how to improve. The importance and benefits of occupational wellness and making the right decisions are discussed.
PDF Handout: Five tips on improving occupational wellness are presented in this one-page handout.
Website: The CDC Workplace Health Resource Center (WHRC) offers a website for workplace health promotion. It gives employers resources to create a healthy work environment.
BOOK OVERVIEW: This book focuses on the need for a multicultural perspective on occupational health to understand the unique barriers and stressors that ethic and minority workers encounter in the workplace. This volume will provide a review of literature addressing the challenges in occupational health disparities among racial and ethnic minorities.
Leong, Eggerth, D. E., Zhang, J., Flynn, M. A., Ford, J. K., & Martinez, R. O. (2017). Occupational health disparities : improving the well-being of ethnic and racial minority workers (Leong, D. E. Eggerth, J. Zhang, M. A. Flynn, J. K. (John K. Ford, & R. O. Martinez, Eds.). American Psychological Association.
Identifier ISBN : 9781433826924 (print ed.)
BOOK ABSTRACT: Organizations are increasingly turning to occupational health psychology (OHP) to develop, maintain, and promote the health of employees. This second edition of the Handbook of occupational health psychology reviews the history of OHP; theories and models; causes of work problems and risks; resulting symptoms and disorders; prevention, intervention, and treatment strategies used by practicing professions; and methods of research and evaluation.
Quick, & Tetrick, L. E. (2011). Handbook of occupational health psychology (2nd ed.). American Psychological Association.
Identifier ISBN : 9781433807770 (electronic bk.)
ARTICLE OVERVIEW: This article focuses on well-being and wellness. Focused on the Journal of Family & Consumer Sciences (JFCS) and the Family & Consumer Sciences Research Journal (FCSRJ), this article provides a decade review (2009-2019) of two major periodicals relative to their coverage of well-being and wellness.
Kihm, & McGregor, S. L. . (2020). Wellness and Well-being: A Decade Review of AAFCS Journals (2009-2019). Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 112(3), 11–22. https://doi.org/10.14307/JFCS112.3.11
Identifier ISSN: 1082-1651
Resources to Watch
Video: Occupational Wellness is the focus on this video from SAMHSA’s 2018 National Wellness Week. It was created by the program to achieve wellness and showcases occupational wellness tips.
Video: Presented by the National Extension Association of Family and Consumer Science, this short video focuses on Living Well. This segment of the series focuses on occupational wellness.
Video: This is a 28 minute lecture on Workplace wellness including programs and interventions.
Video: This 2 minute video gives a brief overview of resources provided by the CDC on their website.
Resources to Engage
The WellRight's website has over 400 wellness activities and challenge ideas to promote habits of wellness across many dimensions of wellness including: occupational, emotional, environment, physical, and social. It encompasses suggestions for personal, group, and team challenges and activities. Please peruse the activities and incorporate them into your personal goals.
In this PDF guide from SAMHSA focus on reading page nineteen, then to extend the activity and engage for personal reflection and wellness fill in page twenty.
Website: The CDC Workplace Health Resource Center (WHRC) offers a website for workplace health promotion. It gives employers resources to create a healthy work environment.