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Employment and mental health
- Authors:
- KHAN Masood, BOARDMAN Jed
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 32
- Place of publication:
- London
This report focus on mental health and employment, examining the recent national initiatives and policies and the key arguments for improving the access of people with mental health conditions to the labour market, and setting out key priorities and future prospects. The paper suggests that as well as offering a number of social, health and economic benefits, strong moral and human rights arguments can be put forward to support the creation of employment opportunities for people with mental health problems. The paper highlights a number of approaches to improving employment support, focusing in particular on the following themes: the importance of work and employment for personal recovery; the value of approaching treatment and employment support in parallel; the importance of a clear social perspective on health and social interventions in medical training and in the training of psychiatrists; the need for an integrated approach to employment support; the implementation of evidence-based approaches to supported employment; the clarification of the role of mental health in occupational health services; the importance of primary care services; the importance of valuing people’s lived experience of mental health problems; the development of a clear perspective on public mental health and employment; and the need to define the role of commissioning in improving employment opportunities for people with mental health problems. (Edited publisher abstract)
Mental health support in local communities: what role can integrated advice play?
- Author:
- MEROLA Roberto
- Publisher:
- Citizens Advice
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 12
- Place of publication:
- London
Drawing on the experience of Citizens Advice, this briefing explores how integrating advice into the mental health care and local services can result in better use of council resources and better support for people with mental health problems. It highlights how, by working with Citizens Advice, local authorities can reduce pressure on local services by stopping people’s practical problems from escalating and building resilience and by supporting people into work. (Edited publisher abstract)
Mental health at work: the business costs ten years on
- Authors:
- PARSONAGE Michael, SAINI Geena
- Publisher:
- Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 12
- Place of publication:
- London
This paper estimates the cost of mental health problems to UK employers for the financial year 2016/17, updating previous figures published by the Centre for Mental Health. It calculates business costs due to sickness absence, reduced productivity when staff are at work or 'presenteeism', and in relation to replacing staff who leave their jobs for mental health reasons. The estimates show that costs to employers come to £34.9 billion for the financial year 2016/17, equivalent to approximately £1,300 for every employee in the UK workforce. The findings show that improving mental health in the workplace makes good business sense. It highlights the need for organisations to promote wellbeing, create healthy work environments, support those experiencing mental ill-health and equip employees returning to work. (Edited publisher abstract)
An evaluation of a vocational group for people with mental health problems based on The WORKS framework
- Authors:
- HITCH Danielle, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 80(12), 2017, p.717–725.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Introduction: Attitudinal, social and workplace barriers, as well as poor health, can disrupt participation in education and employment for people experiencing mental illness. The WORKS framework conceptualises support for employment and mental health in relation to three starting points on vocational pathways: Starting Out, Moving Forward, and Keeping Going and Growing. Method: The WORKS ‘Starting Out’ phase was adapted for a vocational group run in an Australian mental health service, and qualitative methods used to evaluate three consecutive programmes. Focus group data about service user participants’ (n = 20) views were subjected to content analysis. Findings: Two themes related to programme experience were identified: ‘Working together’ and ‘Experiencing structured workshops’. Four themes related to the influences of the group on recovery and vocational aspirations: ‘Work and recovery’; ‘What we got from Starting Out’; ‘Promoting vocation’ and ‘Where to next?’ Conclusion: The findings confirmed the importance of employment to people experiencing longstanding mental illness, and demonstrated that the ‘Starting Out’ programme provided a meaningful way of opening conversations about work. Co-facilitation by occupational therapists and peer workers enabled a respectful environment, which supported participants to identify transferable skills, reconnect with vocational goals and redefine themselves as ‘employable’. (Edited publisher abstract)
Mental health and employers: the case for investment. Supporting study for the Independent Review
- Authors:
- HAMPSON Elizabeth, et al
- Publisher:
- Deloitte
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 40
- Place of publication:
- London
This report, commissioned to support the Stevenson-Farmer Review of Mental Health and Employers, provides information into the cost to employers of failing to address and support mental wellbeing in the workplace. The report looks at three areas: the cost of mental health to employers; the return on investment to employers from mental health interventions in the workplace; and learning from international examples in terms of good practice. To calculate the costs of poor employee mental health, the report considered a range of costs, including: absence, presenteeism, team costs and turnover/other organisational costs. It estimates that poor mental health costs UK employers £33bn-£42bn each year, which is disproportionately borne by the public sector. It also identifies that the return on investment of workplace mental health interventions is overwhelmingly positive. The report looks at practice across Germany, Canada, Australia, France, Belgium and Sweden and identifies a range of interventions and approaches. These include implementing legislation to protect employee mental health and wellbeing and providing common frameworks around mental health interventions and working with employers to implement these interventions. (Edited publisher abstract)
Children placed in out-of-home care as midlife adults: are they still disadvantaged or have they caught up with their peers?
- Authors:
- BRANNSTROM Lars, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Child Maltreatment, 22(3), 2017, pp.205-214.
- Publisher:
- Sage
International research has consistently reported that children placed in out-of-home care (OHC) have poor outcomes in young adulthood. Yet, little is known about their outcomes in midlife. Using prospective data from a cohort of more than 14,000 Swedes born in 1953, of which nearly 9% have been placed in OHC, this study examines whether there is developmental continuity or discontinuity of disadvantage reaching into middle age in OHC children, compared to same-aged peers. Outcome profiles, here conceptualized as combinations of adverse outcomes related to education, economic hardship, unemployment, and mental health problems, were assessed in 1992–2008 (ages 39–55). Results indicate that having had experience of OHC was associated with 2-fold elevated odds of ending up in the most disadvantaged outcome profile, controlling for observed confounding factors. These findings suggest that experience of OHC is a strong marker for disadvantaged outcomes also in midlife. (Publisher abstract)
Neuroscience and music meet in an innovative new approach to mental health: “change of mind”
- Author:
- McGANNAN Ben
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Public Mental Health, 16(2), 2017, pp.86-87.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article Change of Mind”, which is a a new initiative that taps the power of music to elicit empathy and thereby encourage a more supportive workplace environment for sufferers from mental health problems. (Edited publisher abstract)
Enhancing the career planning self-determination of young adults with mental health challenges
- Authors:
- SOWERS Jo-Ann, SWANK Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work in Disability and Rehabilitation, 16(2), 2017, pp.161-179.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The impact of an intervention on the self-determination and career planning engagement of young adults with mental health challenges was studied. Sixty-seven young adults, 20 to 30 years of age, with mental health diagnoses (e.g., depression, bipolar disorder) were randomly assigned to intervention and control groups. Statistically significant greater increases were made by the intervention group versus the control group for self-determination and career planning engagement, and self-determination at least partially mediated increases in career planning engagement. With career planning self-determination interventions, young adults with mental health challenges might be able to achieve better career and life outcomes than is typical for this population. (Publisher abstract)
Mental health and employment
- Author:
- TRADES UNION CONGRESS
- Publisher:
- Trades Union Congress
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 11
- Place of publication:
- London
Building on early TUC research and a 2016 analysis of official employment statistics, this report looks at the employment of disabled people, and in particular examines the employment of people with depression and mental health problems. The analysis shows that there is a significant difference in the employment rates of people with depression and mental health problems, compared to non-disabled people. The report argues that although the employment rate for disabled people is increasing, this is happening too slowly for the government to reach its 2015 commitment of halving the disability employment gap by 2020. It makes policy recommendations for both employers and government in order to help disabled people stay in work, ensure they have access to justice if they face discrimination in employment, and have the necessary support when they are unemployed and looking for work. (Edited publisher abstract)
Towards employment: what research says about support-to-work in relation to psychiatric and intellectual disabilities
- Authors:
- LOVGREN Veronica, MARKSTROM Urban, SAUER Lennart
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work in Disability and Rehabilitation, 16(1), 2017, pp.14-37.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This article presents an overview of research about support-to-work in relation to psychiatric and intellectual disabilities. The overview shows that support-to-work services are multifaceted, and that work can be seen as a tool for individual rehabilitation or as a set of goals to achieve. Providers are presented with specific components, which are characterised by systematic, targeted, and individualised interventions. The overview illustrates a need for long-term engagement and cooperation of and between welfare services and agents within the labour market to dissolve the Gordian knot that the transition from welfare interventions to employment seems to be. (Edited publisher abstract)