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Common mental health problems at work: what we now know about successful interventions: a progress review
- Author:
- SEYMOUR Linda
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 19p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report examines recent international research evidence on how to help people with depression and anxiety to stay in work or to return after a period of ill health. In 2005 the British Occupational Health Research Foundation published a systematic evidence review of published evidence for effective interventions that help people with depression and anxiety to remain in or return to work. This paper presents the results of an update of that review, examining papers in English from the international literature published between 2004 and the end of 2008. The paper reviews the findings of the updated evidence against the backdrop of recent developments in policy and practice, as well as an increasing understanding and concern about the human and economic costs associated with mental health problems and work. A number of key messages for research, policy and practice are presented. In particular, the evidence confirms that people with common mental health problems do not have to be completely well to return to work, and that, for many, going back to work actually helps their recovery.
Public health and criminal justice: promoting and protecting offenders' mental health and wellbeing
- Author:
- SEYMOUR Linda
- Publisher:
- Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 14p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The offending population experiences poor mental health on many counts, often associated with a lifetime of social exclusion and its consequences. Promoting and protecting the mental health and well-being of offenders and those at risk of offending can have wide-ranging benefits for individuals, their families and their communities. This policy paper looks at a range of innovative programmes and interventions that target people and communities at high risk of social exclusion, poor mental health and offending. It shows how offender mental health is a critical public health issue, and that public health practitioners have a lot to offer people in the criminal justice system or at high risk of offending. The report outlines the involvement with the criminal justice system presents opportunities to promote and protect mental health, and describes how the collaborative working between public health and criminal justice is essential to delivering on this agenda. The report gives recommendations and key messages for policy makers, suggesting that reinvesting to save will bring the greatest benefits.