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Archives: Mental Health Awareness

The Death of the LGBTQ+ Suicide Prevention Line

In today’s post, Teodoro (Teo) Pulvirenti and Marianne Calilhanna join Randy Townsend to unpack the disturbing topic of suicide among the LGBTQ+ community.

  • By Randy Townsend, Teodoro Pulvirenti, Marianne Calilhanna
  • Sep 29, 2025
  • 13 Comments
  • Time To Read: 11 mins

Delete the Drama: Creating A Cyberbully-free Zone in Scholarly Publishing 

It’s not always easy to recognize a cyberbully, or initially realize you’re being targeted. Here, some practices to help you to grow and protect your professional networks in ways that align with your values and vision.

  • By Randy Townsend
  • May 13, 2025
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Horizon Shifting, Or, How to be a Human in Modern-day Scholarly Publishing

These are not normal times. This is a time where we are all navigating new ways of being, new ways of shifting our horizons on an hour-by-hour and day-to-day basis. It’s a time to give grace to one another.

  • By Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen
  • Apr 16, 2025
  • 10 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Mental Health Awareness Mondays — Leading with Heart: The Transformative Power of Empathetic Leadership

Research suggests that empathy is a skill that can be honed and is beneficial to all. Empathetic leadership is an art form to convey to your team that you value them as individuals, all while maintaining a keen focus on the organization’s success.

  • By Damita Snow, Rebecca McLeod, Dana Compton, Jeff Mahony, Gladys Alejandra López Morales
  • Mar 24, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Building a Neuro-inclusive Workplace

Organizations that do not actively include and support neurodivergent individuals risk missing out on exceptional talents and undermining employees’ ability to work to their full potential.

  • By Amanda Rogers, Patty Brady, Dianndra Roberts
  • Mar 17, 2025
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Revisiting Mental Health Mondays 

A look back, highlighting posts with helpful information on supporting workplace mental wellbeing

  • By Dianndra Roberts
  • Feb 24, 2025
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Mental Health Mondays: Occupational Burnout Prevention and Recovery

What is burnout, and how can individuals, as well as companies combat this systemic workplace problem?

  • By Kali Jaye
  • Jan 27, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 10 mins

Mental Health Awareness Mondays — An Introduction to Psychological Safety

Before we are scholarly publishers — or employees, or managers, or colleagues — we are humans. Fostering psychological safety in the workplace respects this basic truth and paves the way for business success.

  • By Sarah Bay
  • Dec 16, 2024
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Growth Without Burnout: Managing Polarities Consciously for Sustainable Success in Publishing

A relentless push for growth can lead to burnout among authors, editors, and reviewers, while also placing undue pressure on organizations to maintain high levels of output. How can we better provide the infrastructure and support systems needed to sustain that growth over the long term.

  • By Roohi Ghosh
  • Dec 11, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Mental Health Awareness Mondays — Supporting our people at IOP Publishing: A Strategic Imperative in a Changing Publishing Landscape

Dr. Mikka Lene Pers discusses how a company can prioritize the health and happiness of its employees to not only enhance individual wellbeing but also contribute to the overall success and resilience of the organization.  

  • By Mikka Lene Pers
  • Nov 18, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Mental Health Awareness Mondays – SSP Launches the Mental Health Awareness and Action Community of Interest Group

The Society for Scholarly Publishing is launching the Mental Health Awareness and Action Community of Interest (CoIN) Group.

  • By Randy Townsend
  • Nov 4, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Mental Health Awareness Mondays: The Mental Health Effects of Bullies in the Scholarly Publishing Workplace

We often think of bullying as a childhood issue, but people can take that behavior to the workplace. The scourge of workplace bullying, and its harmful effects on mental health, needs to be recognized and addressed.

  • By Jonathan Schultz
  • Oct 7, 2024
  • 8 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Mental Health Awareness Mondays — Ask the Mental Health Editors: Part Two

Part Two in this series of posts where editors within the mental health and psychiatry sector offer their thoughts on the current landscape of scholarly publishing and how it is impacting our discussions and actions around mental health.

  • By Charlene Chuquillanqui, Ryan Reeh, Dianndra Roberts, Adrian Stanley
  • Sep 17, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Mental Health Awareness Mondays — Ask the Mental Health Editors: Part One

We asked Editors within the mental health and psychiatry sector their thoughts on the current landscape of scholarly publishing and how it is impacting our discussions and actions around mental health. Part One of Two.

  • By Charlene Chuquillanqui, Ryan Reeh, Dianndra Roberts, Adrian Stanley
  • Sep 16, 2024
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Mental Health Awareness Mondays — Unlocking Your Institution’s Collective Genius: Cognitive Inclusion Improves Wellness and Maximizes your Societal Impact

In today’s Mental Health Awareness Monday post, Lisa Colledge shows how your research culture can be an asset that boosts mental health and innovation.

  • By Lisa Colledge
  • Aug 19, 2024
  • 10 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

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