Workplace Mental Health
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Learn to Make Your Workplace Mental Health Friendly! Addressing mental health, educating employees about behavioral wellness, fostering a mental health-friendly workplace, and improving access to behavioral health care is not only the right thing to do, it provides a high return on investment. A workforce that is both physically and mentally healthy increases productivity, attendance and retention. A healthy workforce also helps control healthcare and disability costs. Investing in workplace behavioral wellness is good for employees, good for companies, and good for the economy.
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Sick Kids Add to Workplace Anxiety:
A recent study shows that parents of disabled or chronically ill children suffer physical and mental-health problems that increase absenteeism. Experts recommend family-leave and alternative programs as well as more communication about company benefits. Human Resource Executive Online 8/05/09 >>
Taking Care of Business: APA's Workplace Partnership: "It's just business...Don't take it personally." With sayings like that, it's no wonder that the business and mental health communities often seem at odds with one another. After all, our profession is centered on people, while business is centered on profit. More and more, however, business is paying attention to its people - its employees - and their mental health. Why? It's too costly to ignore.
Read more in Psychiatric News 10/19/07>>
Workplace Depression Programs Reduce Symptoms, Increase Productivity:
Employees who participated in a workplace depression intervention program had fewer symptoms of the disorder and were far more productive than depressed employees who didn't participate, researchers at the National Institute of Mental Health report in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Depression in workers cost
U.S. businesses billions of dollars each year in lost productively and other expenses. A ULCA researcher who wrote an accompanying editorial noted that the study offers a compelling argument for businesses to invest in depression care and would help "many families" in addition to the workforce. Read more from Reuters 09/25/07>>
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