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  • 1. Staff Wellness MCA Conference 2006 Missoula, MT Curt Swenson & Winnie Ore, Montana Dept. of Corrections Training Bureau

2. Stress

  • Good News
    • No direct correlation between profession and suicide, divorce, chemical dependency, etc.
  • Bad News
    • There is a direct relationship betweenSTRESSand high-risk behaviors.

3. Causes of Stress

  • Workplace Violence
  • Shift Work
  • Deadlines
  • Overtime
  • Paperwork
  • Offender/Staff Ratios
    • Caseloads
    • Overvrowding
    • Staff shortages

4. How Do We Cope with Stress?

  • Smoking
  • Drinking
  • Gambling
  • Drugs
  • Promiscuity
  • Caffeine
  • What about you?

5. Implications of Stress

  • Sick Leave Abuse (20%)
  • Illness
  • Relationship Issues
  • Chemical Abuse
  • Death
    • Suicide
    • Other

6. Lifestyle53% Environment 21% Heredity 16% Health Care 10% Causes of Pre-Mature Death in the U.S. 7. Its not the job that puts us at risk, its thestress!! And more importantly,HOW WE DEAL WITH IT!!! 8. PERSONAL WELLNESS 9. Emotional Wellness personal balance 10. EMOTIONAL

  • Feel positive and enthusiastic about your self and life
  • Emotionally well person
  • Maintain satisfying relationships with others

11. The EQ Test 12. I AM . . .

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13. Visualization

  • Best work day you can remember
  • With as much detail as you can remember

14. You can change your EQ. You are stuck with your IQ forever. 15. Physical Emotional Wellness personal balance 16. Physical

  • Encourage cardiovascular endurance
  • Flexibility, strength and physical activity
  • Food and nutrition
  • General self-care

17. Physical Emotional Occupational Wellness personal balance 18. OCCUPATIONAL

  • Preparing for work
  • Gain personal satisfaction
  • Related to your attitude about work

19. Small group exercise

  • 15 minutes to discuss and chart the following question.
    • Why do you do what you do?

20. Intellectual Physical Emotional Occupational Wellness personal balance 21. INTELLECTUAL

  • Encourage creativity through stimulating mental activities
  • Use the intellectual and cultural activities within your community

22. Brain Teasers 23. Multiple Intelligences 24. Intellectual Physical Spiritual Emotional Occupational Wellness personal balance 25. SPIRITUAL

  • Involves seeking meaning and purpose in human existence
  • Develop a strong sense of personal values and ethics

26. I wish you the strength of all elements 27. The one who takes your hand but touches your heart is a true Friend 28. We seldom think of what we have, but always think of what we miss 29. Don ' t cry because it' s over now, laugh because it happened 30. The more precisely you plan, the harder destiny will hit you 31. What happens, happens for a reason 32. Don't make an effort because the best things happen, when you least expect them 33. The greatest events,aren't the loudest,but the most quiet hours 34. The most difficult lesson to learn is: Which bridge in life to use or which one to break off 35. Everybody sees how you seem,however, only some know who you are 36. He who would like to have something he never had, will have to do something well, that he hasnt done yet 37. Perhaps God would want you to become acquainted with many different people in the course of your life, so that when you meet the right ones, you can appreciate and be grateful for them 38. Plan for tomorrow but LIVE for today 39. Love doesn't require two people look at each other, but that they look together in the same direction. (Antoine de Saint Exupery) 40. Life is drawing without an eraser 41. I wish you always: Air to breath, Fire to warm you, Water to drink and The earth to live in. I hope you enjoyed it and have a great day ! 42.

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Intellectual Physical Spiritual Emotional Occupational Wellness personal balance 43. SOCIAL

  • Personal contributions for the greater good
  • Interdependence with others and nature
  • Pursuit of harmony with family

44. The Name Game 45.

      • Social

Intellectual Physical Spiritual Emotional Occupational Wellness personal balance