Skip to Main Content

Educators & Mentors Toolkit

Resources and tools for clinical mentors and clinical educators

Workplace Wellness

Personal Wellness

General Stress

Types of Stress
Stress Signs and Symptoms
Six Myths about Stress  

Traumatic Stress

Common Reactions After Trauma
Coping with Traumatic Stress
Coping with PTSD
Helping a Family Member with PTSD
What is Post-Traumatic Growth?

Video

How to Make Stress Your Friend--Kelly McGonigal, TED

CARE Guided Meditation on Channel 61 on many Inova TVs; soon to be upgraded to digital

Books
What is Resilience?
Increasing Resilience

Qualities of Resilience
10 Ways to Build Resilience

Mindfulness: Breath & Body Scan
Letting Go of Grudges
8 Keys to Forgiveness
The Stanford Resilience Project

Multimedia

The surprising science of happiness--Dan Gilbert, TED

To Endure TED Radio Hour

Classes
Books
Increase Your Exposure to Humor 

Read the daily comics before leaving for work
Read a page/chapter of jokes at night before going to sleep
Funny page-a-day calendars
Internet joke websites, daily email feeds
Save a clip or electronic file of cartoons
Comedy Clubs
American Film Institute – list of 100 funniest movies
Funny dentist skit - YouTube

Monty Python Dead Parrot - YouTube

Painfully Funny - TED Radio Hour

Funny Cat Videos

Test Yourself

Depression screen
Alcohol use  

Education about Depression

Depression Symptoms and Warning Signs
Helping a Depressed Person  

Education about Suicidality

Dealing with Suicidal Thoughts and Feelings
How to Help Someone Who is Suicidal  

Work-Life Assessments

Assess Your Sleepiness
Work-Life Balance Quiz
Work-Life Assessment and Planning Tools 

Finding Balance
Inova WellAware & EAP Resources for Balance
Work-Life Balance: Tips to Gain Control
When and How to Say No
5 Research-Based Ways to Say "No"
Effectively Managing Technology so that it Doesn't Control You
 

Personal Productivity

Academic Biomedical Career Customization
Understanding Procrastination
Writing Productivity Problems
Time Management  

Spirituality

Spirituality and Health
 

Family

Family Quality Time
Better Parenting
How to Raise Kids Who Aren't Spoiled
Nine Psychological Tasks for a Good Marriage
Making Step-Families Work
Physician Mothers and Breast Feeding
Effects of Stress on Family
Talking to Kids about Stress  

Mindfulness Quiz

Self-Compassion Scale

Benefits of Mindfulness

Multimedia

Jon Kabat-Zinn: What is Mindfulness?

The Space Between Self-Esteem and Self Compassion: Kristin Neff at TEDxCentennialParkWomen

 

Forest Bathing: A Retreat to Nature Can Boost Immunity and Mood

'Forest Bathing': How Microdosing on Nature Can Help with Stress