This short guide, available as a free download or as a printed booklet, aims to help you understand and be
more informed about the nature of stress and depression, and so better able to promote
mental health and wellbeing in your practice, your workplace and in yourself.
Presented in a ‘question and answer’ format, it focuses on two key areas:
- The nature of stress and depression and how they can impact on you individually, on your clients and on your colleagues;
- The supports that are available for individuals, employers and employees.
Questions asked and answered include:
- What is stress?
- What is depression?
- Does it make sense for a Chartered Accountant to
experience stress?
- What can you do to stop stress from spiralling into
depression?
- How can depression be treated?
- How can you recognise when you need support?
- How can you recognise if your clients or colleagues are experiencing stress and/or depression, and what can you do?
In writing this guide, Dr Claire Hayes has drawn on her extensive experience
as a clinical psychologist, her work with people in organisations and her
experience as Clinical Director of Aware. Claire’s particular interest in
cognitive behavioural (CBT) approaches to coping is reflected in this guide,
where she shares two straight-forward methods for dealing with stress and
depression: ‘The Coping Triangle’ and ‘The Coping Sentence’.
Available as a free download or as a printed
booket, all proceeds are donated to Chartered
Accountants SUPPORT
You may also wish to make a donation to Chartered
Accountants SUPPORT. Chartered Accountants Ireland is a community of
professionals. At times, members of this community will experience setbacks,
either personal or professional, which they need additional assistance to
overcome. Chartered Accountants SUPPORT aims to provide both practical and
emotional assistance to help them take the first steps on to a more positive
future.
For further information, contact publishing@charteredaccountants.ie
or telephone on (+353) 01 637 7204
The Author
Dr Claire Hayes is a consultant
clinical psychologist, Clinical Director with Aware, lecturer, author and
researcher with over 30 years’ experience. Her particular interest is in helping
people to understand their stressors and to learn practical, evidence-based ways
of coping using psychoeducational cognitive behavioural approaches. Claire
presented ‘Becoming Aware: A Proactive Approach to Good Mental Health for
Chartered Accountants’ at the Chartered Accountants Ireland 2013 Annual
Conference. She is also author of How to Cope: The Welcoming Approach (Gill & Macmillan, 2015) and her third book, Finding Hope
in the Age of Anxiety was published by Gill in February 2017.
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