Workplace Mental Health
Experts in occupational and organizational psychiatry, employers, payors, clinicians, employees, and society in general seemed to be coalescing around four ideas: there is a strong business and moral case for employers to care about the mental health and well-being of their employees, stigma needs to be reduced, access to evidence-based mental health care needed to be improved, and workers expected their employer's to play a significant role.
Abstract
Experts in occupational and organizational psychiatry, employers, payors, clinicians, employees, and society in general seemed to be coalescing around four ideas: (1) there is a strong business and moral case for employers to care about the mental health and well-being of their employees;(2) stigma needs to be reduced;(3) workers expected their employer's to play a significant role in providing them with mental health resources;and (4) access to evidence-based mental health care needed to be improved [ ]businesses have a material interest in their workers' mental health because they bear both direct and indirect costs when workers' mental health is not well Organizations such as the Center for Workplace Mental Health, Academy of Organizational and Occupational Psychiatry, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the American Heart Association, and the World Health Organization have provided frameworks and resources that we can use to help educate our patients and their employers about the joint responsibility they have in creating and maintaining healthy workplaces