Category Archives: Organizational Health

Best Practices for Addressing Secondary Traumatic Stress

Principles for Individuals & Organizations

Published by the STS Consortium in 2024, these principles offer best practices for addressing secondary traumatic stress for both individuals and organizations.

November 2025

Employee Wellness is a Shared Responsibility

The Results of Our 2024 Survey of Helping Professionals

To better understand who is responsible for employee wellness, we surveyed 761 helping professionals. Here is what we heard.

December 2024

Start Your Journey Towards a Healthier, More Supportive Workplace

The TEND Approach to Organizational Health

In this presentation, Françoise Mathieu and Cambria Walsh introduce the TEND Roadmap program and explore how organizations can create meaningful and sustainable change.

September 2024

The Secondary Traumatic Stress Informed Organization Assessment (STSI-­OA)

Assessment Tool for Organizations

The STSI-OA is an assessment tool that can be used to evaluate the degree to which an organization is secondary traumatic stress informed.

April 2023

The Burnout Challenge

Managing People’s Relationships with Their Jobs

In this book, Christina Maslach and Michael P. Leiter provide useful tools for identifying the signs of employee burnout and offer practical, evidence-driven guidance on implementing meaningful change.

November 2022

We Need to Talk

Why There Can Be No “Future Forward” Until We’ve Done the Work

We need conversations and time to process the many ways in which the pandemic has impacted us. Only then can we move forward.

August 2022

The Human Element

Overcoming the Resistance That Awaits New Ideas

In this book, Loran Nordgren and David Schonthal explore how human behavior and emotions influence leadership and decision-making within organizations.

October 2021

The Burnout Epidemic

The Rise of Chronic Stress and How We Can Fix It

In this book, Jennifer Moss lays bare the causes of burnout and how organizations can stop the chronic stress cycle that an alarming number of workers suffer through.

September 2021

Leaders Are People Too

Interview with Dr. Patricia Fisher

Dr. Patricia Fisher, co-founder and Senior Advisor with TEND, is a clinical psychologist and specialist in organizational health and workplace wellness in trauma-exposed workplaces. In this interview, Dr. Fisher shares best practice recommendations for leaders amidst the stress of the COVID-19 pandemic. Q Dr. Fisher, you have been an expert in organizational health for many years, with a particular focus on professionals who work in health care, corrections, law enforcement and social services. How did you become interested in working with high stress, trauma-exposed professionals? Like many of us in this field, I had intense personal experience as a clinical [...]

March 2020

Compassionomics

The Revolutionary Scientific Evidence that Caring Makes a Difference

In this book, Stephen Trzeciak and Anthony Mazzarelli explore whether health care is in a compassion crisis, and offer evidence and research to prove that compassion matters.

April 2019

The Business Case

February 2019

Resilience, Balance & Meaning

Supporting Our Lives and Our Work in High Stress, Trauma-Exposed Workplaces

In this workbook, Dr. Patricia Fisher provides practical tools to address the effects of workplace stress, burnout, and trauma and offers a framework to creating a personal wellness plan.

September 2016

Building Resilient Teams

Facilitating Workplace Wellness & Organizational Health in Trauma-Exposed Environments

In this workbook. Dr. Patricia Fisher outlines practical and effective approaches to building team resiliency and cohesion in trauma-exposed workplaces.

August 2015

Beyond Kale and Pedicures

Can We Beat Burnout & Compassion Fatigue?

There is a growing frustration at working in a system that feels broken - and no amount of kale and yoga can fix that overnight.

April 2015