The counsellor goes home. Her colleagues stay behind. 8-minute read. After nearly 20 years as a crisis psychologist and manager at organisations including the Red Cross, the Danish Cancer Society, the Danish Armed Forces and the Region...
We have made the psychological working environment a shared responsibility As a development nurse in the Psychiatry Department at Gødstrup Regional Hospital, Irene Amby has seen how the Basic Course in Stress Psychology has...
We have developed a common language to describe the stresses that come with the job Head Nurse Rikke Louise Østergaard (left) and Secretary to the Department Management Dorthe Kondrup (right) explain...
Why do we make managers’ working environment a personal responsibility? There is something strange about the way we talk about managers’ well-being. When employees are unhappy, they develop...
Who is responsible for managers" wellbeing? "Dear manager, who is responsible for your wellbeing?” That question provided the framework for a well-attended debate at Folkemødet 2026, where...
Mette Uldbæk: “We are trained to take action, save lives and take responsibility.” In the healthcare sector, responsibility, a broad overview and decisiveness are strong professional ideals. But according to the head nurse...
Rikke Brokøb Ølholm Petersen: “We must not turn a blind eye to the pressure we face as employees and managers.” “When expectations rise, without the framework...
Malene Friis Andersen – staff and the consequences: “When the system doesn’t add up, staff start to compensate.” When expectations and conditions in the welfare sector don’t add up, people stop...
Susanne Ekman – “The system and the toxic debt”: ‘We have built up a toxic debt within the welfare system.’ We often talk about the solution to the pressures on the welfare system as a...
When the impossible becomes part of the task – and a shared responsibility – regarding a crisis of expectations, loss and moral stress. We often talk about the crisis of expectations as...