Solutions:
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Apps for Miscellaneous Mental Health / Control of Anger & Emotions
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Behavior Modification Techniques
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Counseling/Therapy
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Disability Awareness/Etiquette Training
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Employee Assistance Program
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Environmental Sound Machines / Tinnitus Maskers / White Noise Machines
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Flexible Schedule
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Job Coaches
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Job Restructuring
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Simulated Skylights and Windows
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Social Skill Builders
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Strobe Lights
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Sun Boxes and Lights
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Supervisory Methods
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Support Animal
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Support Person
Apps for Miscellaneous Mental Health / Control of Anger & Emotions
Vendors and Products
- Anxiety
- Brainwaves
- Breathe & Relax
- Breathe2Relax
- BreatheWell Wear
- DBSA Wellness Tracker
- Eating D
- End Anxiety Hypnosis
- Happify
- Headspace
- iMood Journal
- In Flow - Mood and Emotion Diary
- Jourvie
- Mood Meter
- NAMI AIR
- OCD
- Operation Reach Out
- Pacifica
- PTSD Coach
- Recovery Record
- Rise Up + Recover
- Self-Help for Anxiety Management (SAM)
- Smiling Mind
- Spire
- Stop, Breathe & Think
- Stress is Gone
- Symple - Symptom Tracker & Health Diary
- T2 Mood Tracker
- Talk Space
- AnxietyCoach
- Bipolar Disorder Connect
- Brainwaves
- Breathe & Relax
- Breathe2Relax
- DBSA Wellness Tracker
- End Anxiety Hypnosis
- Equanimity-Meditation Timer & Tracker
- Happify
- Headspace
- Health Mapper
- iCounselor: Eating Disorder
- iCounselor: OCD
- iMood Journal
- In Flow - Mood and Emotion Diary
- Live OCD Free
- Mental Illness
- Mood Meter
- NAMI AIR
- Operation Reach Out
- Optimism
- Pacifica
- PTSD Coach
- PTSD Eraser
- Recovery Record
- recoveryBox Addiction Recovery Toolbox
- Rise Up + Recover
- Self-Help for Anxiety Management (SAM)
- Smiling Mind
- Spire
- Stop, Breathe & Think
- Stress is Gone
- Stress Stopper
- Symple - Symptom Tracker & Health Diary
- T2 Mood Tracker
- Talk Space
- Worry Watch
Behavior Modification Techniques
The use of basic learning techniques, such as conditioning, biofeedback, reinforcement, or aversion therapy, to alter human behavior. A form of psychotherapy that uses basic learning techniques to modify maladaptive behavior patterns by substituting new responses to given stimuli for undesirable ones. Also called behavioral therapy and/or behavior modification.
Counseling/Therapy
An employer may need to consider flexibility in work hours so that an individual can attend counseling. Examples include blocks of leave time, flexing a schedule, combining break times, or rescheduling a lunch.
Disability Awareness/Etiquette Training
Disability awareness/etiquette trainings are designed to enhance employees’ awareness on the different ways that individuals with disabilities communicate, move about, tolerate changes and interactions, and view the world around them. This can help increase employees’ sense of confidence and tolerance when interacting with their coworkers who have disabilities. For more information on disability etiquette, please see JAN's A to Z: Disability Etiquette.
Vendors and Products
Campaign for Disability Employment
Institute on Employment and Disability
Life Quest Training & Consulting, LLC
Mental Health Channel, LLC
National Organization on Disability
Rocky Mountain ADA Center
Virginia Commonwealth University WorkSupport
Virginia Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired
VisAbility
Employee Assistance Program
An employee assistance program (EAP) is a work-based intervention program designed to assist employees by way of counseling in resolving personal problems (e.g., marital, financial or emotional problems; family issues) that may be adversely affecting the employee's performance.
Environmental Sound Machines / Tinnitus Maskers / White Noise Machines
Environmental sound machines, also known as sound conditioners, help block out extraneous noises that are often found to be distracting. They can also be used to reduce stress in the work environment. Devices can include those that create persistent masking sound to relieve stress from tinnitus and otherwise drown out unwanted sounds.
Vendors and Products
Flexible Schedule
Employees who experience limitations in concentration may need a flexible schedule in order to work optimally during hours of increased attentiveness. Flexible schedules can also be used to have a period of mental rest in order to refocus and reorient into his/her work. Examples of a flexible schedule would be adjusting starting and ending times of the workday, combining regularly scheduled breaks to create one extended break or dividing large breaks into smaller segments, and allowing work to be completed during hours when the employee is most mentally alert.
Job Coaches
Job coaches are individuals who specialize in assisting individuals with disabilities to learn and accurately carry out job duties. Job coaches provide one-on-one training tailored to the needs of the employee. They may first do a job analysis to identify the job duties, followed by developing a specific plan as to how they can best train the employee to work more and more on his/her own until completely self-sufficient and able to perform job duties accurately and effectively without assistance.
Vendors and Products
111 Staffing
ADD Coach Academy
ADD Consults
ADDed Dimension Coaching
ADHD Coaches Organization
International Coach Federation
Life Strengths
Omni Advocacy Services, Inc.
The Coach Connection, LLC
Thrive with ADD
Job Restructuring
Job restructuring is a form of reasonable accommodation which enables many qualified individuals with disabilities to perform jobs effectively. Job restructuring as a reasonable accommodation may involve reallocating or redistributing the marginal functions of a job. However, an employer is not required to reallocate essential functions of a job as a reasonable accommodation. Essential functions, by definition, are those that a qualified individual must perform, with or without an accommodation.
An employer may exchange marginal functions of a job that cannot be performed by a person with a disability for marginal job functions performed by one or more other employees.
Although an employer is not required to reallocate essential job functions, it may be a reasonable accommodation to modify the essential functions of a job by changing when or how they are done.
Simulated Skylights and Windows
Simulated skylights and windows can brighten a dark space and add depth to a small area. Pictures are placed into window frames that are backed by lighting to improve aspects of the work area.
Vendors and Products
Social Skill Builders
Social skill building products, software, and techniques can help a person with a disability learn the appropriate social skills to exhibit at school, at work, or at home.
Strobe Lights
Strobe lights can be useful as an accommodation to alert workers who are deaf to oncoming vehicles in an industrial environment.
Vendors and Products
Sun Boxes and Lights
Lights and lamps that simulate the natural light of the sun at adjustable rates of brightness.
Vendors and Products
Supervisory Methods
The modification of supervisory methods can be a reasonable accommodation. Examples include meeting with employees more or less frequently to discuss daily/weekly job tasks, encouraging employee to let supervisor know when something is unclear, providing instructions auditory or in writing, using remote communication options when appropriate, and using a goal-oriented management method.
Vendors and Products
Support Animal
An emotional support animal (ESA) is a companion animal that provides therapeutic benefit, such as alleviating or mitigating some symptoms of the disability, to an individual with a mental or psychiatric disability. Emotional support animals are typically dogs and cats, but may include other animals. In order to be prescribed an emotional support animal by a physician or other medical professional, the person seeking such an animal must have a verifiable disability. To be afforded protection under United States federal law, a person must meet the federal definition of disability and must have a note from a physician or other medical professional stating that the person has that disability and that the emotional support animal provides a benefit for the individual with the disability. An animal does not need specific training to become an emotional support animal.
Support Person
Some individuals can benefit from having a dedicated person with them to help keep them focused, assist with minor day to day tasks and help them operate in social environments that they may not feel comfortable in alone. Allowing an employee to bring a support person to important meetings such as job evaluation or disciplinary meeting to help him ask questions, remember discussion points, and explain results or the purpose of the meeting can be helpful. Support persons can be co-workers, job coaches, or close contacts outside of the place of employment. For more information on support persons as reasonable accommodations, see: "A Support Person as an Accommodation."