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Managing mental health and employment
- Author:
- IRVINE Annie
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 144p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report presents the findings of an exploratory qualitative study commissioned in 2007 by the Department for Work and Pensions to investigate the experiences of people with a mental health condition who had continued to work in paid employment while unwell. The study was carried out by the Social Policy Research Unit at the University of York and was based on interviews with 38 people working for a range of small and large employers in the public and private sectors.
Something to declare? The disclosure of common mental health problems at work
- Author:
- IRVINE Annie
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 26(2), March 2011, pp.179-192.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
With a focus on mental health and the workplace, this article presents research findings highlighting the complexities involved in individual decision-making and experiences about whether and how to inform employers and others in the workplace about mental health problems such as stress, anxiety and depression. It is based on 2 studies about people's experiences of mental health and employment (one of incapacity benefits recipients and the other of individuals who had sustained employment throughout periods of mental ill health). Using examples from the study data, it discusses how the complex nature of mental health can complicate workplace disclosure, such as where individuals expressed difficulties in the workplace or in their personal life rather than a mental health problem and where individuals delayed disclosure because they did not perceive their experience to be a mental health problem. The author notes that for many people in the mental health and employment studies described, the starting point of their experience was not one of illness or disability, but of sadness, stress or worry.