Managing Mental Health in the Work Place

[Mental health in the work place].

Mental Health at Work Place

Mental health denotes a symptom free mind and fair level of emotional well being. Be it home or workplace; mental health of an individual is subjected to environmental stressors that may reduce one’s state of well being. The workplace in particular can be a very tiring environment for anyone. The stress of long working hours, ever increasing targets, managing coworkers and subordinates can take...

[Health and safety in the work place].

Starter activities • Ask the students what is meant by ‘health and safety in the workplace’. Ask them to give you some examples • Using the factsheet, describe to the students what a work environment used to be like. Ask for their ideas on how they would expect a workplace to differ today • Ask the students why health and safety in the workplace is important. Read out the case study to emphasis...

Mental Health and Work : Mental Health and Work: Norway

Executive summary Assessment and recommendations Chapter 1. Mental health and work challenges in Norway Chapter 2. Reconsidering Norwegian sickness absence policies Chapter 3. Revising disability benefit assessment procedures and eligibility criteria in Norway Chapter 4. Enhancing the effectiveness of Norway’s vocational rehabilitation system Chapter 5. Involving mental health care in Norway in...

Managing physical health in mental health populations.

People with serious mental illness (SMI) have greatly increasing morbidity and mortality from physical illness than the general population. This results in a 25 to 30 year shorter life expectancy with cardiovascular disease being the leading cause of death 1 . It has been suggested that current policy, services and health promotion actions are ineffective in targeting physical illness in this p...