This document discusses mental health, mental illness, and systemic solutions in the workplace. It defines mental health as a state of well-being that allows people to cope with stress and function well. Mental illness is a diagnosable disorder that impacts how one feels, thinks and acts. Common causes include genetics, trauma and stress. The document then outlines some ways companies are working to improve mental health through focusing on culture, benefits, policies, environment, outcomes measurements and innovation. It provides local resources for mental health support.
8. According to the
World Health Organization (WHO)
“Mental health is a state of mental well-being that
enables people to cope with the stresses of life, realize
their abilities, learn well and work well, and contribute to
their community.”
9. In its simplest terms…
Mental health is about physical, mental, and social wellbeing.
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11. What can negatively affect mental health?
• Traumatic events
• Discrimination
• Exclusion
• Poor physical health
12. What is mental illness?
A diagnosable disorder.
Mental illness complicates mental health by
seriously impacting the way we feel, think, act or
experience the world.
14. Depression is a common mental illness.
Annual prevalence of a major Depressive episode among U.S.
adults is 8.4% (21 million people)
https://www.nami.org/mhstats
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16. There is a difference between
mental health and wellness and
mental illness.
17. What are companies doing to
make systematic changes that
positively impact mental health
and wellness?
18. • Culture
• Robust Mental Health Benefits
• Workplace Policies and Practices
• Healthy Work Environment
• Outcomes Measurements
• Innovation
20. Robust Mental Health Benefits
Overly narrow mental health provider networks and
high out-of-pocket costs are major deterrents to
care.
21. Workplace Policies and Practices
Discrimination, harassment and bullying in the
workplace can lead to psychological and
physiological stress responses, resulting in chronic
health conditions.
22. Healthy Work Environment
There need to be strategies to make the physical
surroundings and social, economic, and
organizational systems to promote workplace
mental health.
Leadership support.
29. Dina Braun
Team Leader
Bellin Psychiatric
Safety, Health and Wellness Symposium Sponsor
920-338-2800
dina.braun@bellin.org
Hinweis der Redaktion
We often talk about mental health and wellness in the workplace as if it’s so much different than mental health anywhere else.
That’s it’s a set of skills exclusive to the workplace.
In and out of the workplace. I maintain that if you’re not well in the workplace your not well outside if it and the converse is true. If you’re not well outside of the workplace you’re probably not well at work.
My lack of mental wellness first manifested itself in the workplace. Makes sense – it was the most high stress place of my life. I was high stung, often having emotional outbursts. Grandiose plans and schemes that made no sense. Often working at the office until midnight or 1:00 AM. Not coming to work for a weeks at a time because I couldn’t even brush my teeth, let alone get out of bed to function normally.
When I was at my most unhealthly, I did not have one of these center catagories in hand.
