Social counselling Service (EAP)
As an employee1) you have the possibility to take benefit of a social counselling service free of charge. This EAP expert counselling is offered by the ias group. EAP stands for "Employee Assistance Program". The counsellors of the ias group are available to you by phone, by email, in one-to-one meetings and via a hotline. They offer anonymous, individual counselling on topics such as:
Health and personal matters:
- family and partnership
- children and upbringing
- separation/divorce
- nursing care advise
- stress
- substance abuse/addiction
- psychosomatic disorders
- mental health disorders
- financial difficulties/ debt
Professional life:
- work overload
- workplace conflicts/mobbing
- return-to-work management
- managing change processes
1) This does not include scholarship holders (e.g. doctoral scholarship holders and guest researchers), guests without compensation, external doctoral candidates of the GSI graduate school.
Counselling for line managers and functionaries
Our social counselling services also include counselling for employees in their role as line managers and functionaries, for example, on issues of integration and conflict management.
It also offers counselling for line managers and functionaries on the following topics:
- Ensuring a good communication culture, e.g. when many people work from home
- Structuring meetings in a sustainable way
- Healthy leadership
- Resilience in the team
- Dealing with stress
- Dealing constructively with conflicts
- Dealing with addiction problems among employees
- Health-conscious management of employees
- Support for employees in difficult situations
- Preparing difficult discussions with employees
Support Covid-19 (please note: only available in German)
- Handout for the lecture on 30.03.2021: Gesunder Schlaf
- Presentation for the lecture on 09.02.2021: Psychisch gesund bleiben in Corona-Zeiten
- Handout for the lecture in December 2020: Corona? Psychologische erste Hilfe - Resilienz in der Krise
- Max-Planck-Institut für Psychiatrie: Psychisch gesund bleiben während Social-Distancing, Quarantäne und Ausgangsbeschränkungen auf Grund des Corona-Virus (Kurzprogramm zur Selbstanwendung) https://www.psych.mpg.de/2628420/psychisch_gesund_bleiben_w_hrend_social_distancing.pdf
- Zum Umgang mit der aktuellen Situation bedingt durch das Corona-Virus bietet unsere Sozialberatung gezielt Unterstützung an. Nähere Informationen finden Sie hier: Gut beraten durch die Krise.pdf