ENTER Mental Health Conference 2025 Abstract submission extended

ENTER has extended the submission date for the receipt of abstracts for its conference "Trauma, the workforce and the workplace: Implementing trauma informed approaches in mental health care" until 7th March 2025. The themes for the conference are:

i) Prevention and resilience: Supporting recovery and resilience:

• Healing in trauma.

• Recovery for individuals experiencing trauma in the workplace. 

• Strategies to prevent workforce trauma before it occurs.

• Advanced and specialist practices working with trauma.

• Building resilience among employees and teams to minimise the impact of trauma.

ii) Understanding trauma, the workforce and its environment: 

• Defining trauma in the workplace and how it affects employees' mental health, productivity, and overall well-being.

• Vicarious Trauma

• Identifying and addressing the hidden impact of trauma.

• The personal, emotional, financial, and operational impacts of trauma on workforce.

• The impact of trauma on care delivery, including the hidden costs i.e. employee absenteeism, turnover, lower morale, and productivity, long-term consequences of unresolved trauma and organisational health.

iii) Trauma and organisational change:

• Building a trauma-informed workforce: policies, practices, and support systems.

• The effects of trauma on employees during periods of organisational change.

• Organisational adoption of trauma-informed approaches. 

• The role of leadership in mitigating trauma in workforces.​​

iv) Legal and ethical considerations - Navigating the legal landscape of workplace trauma:

• The legal perspectives on workplace trauma.

• Workers' rights, workforce harassment laws, disability accommodations, and ethical responsibilities of organisations to protect and support employees.

v) Research methodologies for trauma in the workplace: 

• Measuring the effects of trauma in the workplace.

• The scientific and human dimensions of trauma research for workplaces.

• Innovative, effective, and ethically sound approaches to exploring the impact of trauma on workplaces.​​

vi) Intersectionality and trauma in the workplace:

• Marginalised groups experiences of workplace trauma.

• Creating more inclusive and healing environments in organisations.

vii) The future of work - Emerging trends impacting on trauma in the workforce:

• The future of work - applications of remote work, AI, automation, and changing social norms.

• Trauma, climate change and the environment.

Click here to download the abstract submission form.  Abstracts should be submitted to: entermentalhealth@gmail.com

Attendance at this conference is free.  Conference registration is now open. Click here to register.

We would love to see you at the conference.