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Developing an Integrated Approach to Workplace Mental Health

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posted on 2023-05-24, 06:13 authored by LaMontagne, AD, Angela MartinAngela Martin, Page, KM, Reavley, NJ, Noblet, AJ, Milner, AJ, Keegel, T, Allisey, A, Papas, A, Witt, K, Smith, PM
In this chapter, we first present two background premises: (a) there is a high prevalence of mental health problems and disorders in the working population, and (b) working conditions are important and modifiable risk and protective factors for these problems. Workplace interventions to address common mental health problems have evolved relatively independently along three main threads or disciplinary traditions: medicine, public health, and psychology. The remainder of the chapter presents in detail our proposition that interventions from each of these three threads need to be integrated to achieve the greatest population mental health benefits. An integrated approach would protect mental health by reducing work-related risk factors, promote mental health by developing the positive aspects of work as well as worker strengths and positive capacities, and address mental health problems among working people regard-less of cause

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Publication title

Total Worker Health: Integrative Approaches to Safety, Health & Wellbeing

Editors

HL Hudson, JAS Nigam, SL Sauter, LC Chosewood, AL Schill, J Howard

Pagination

211-227

ISBN

978-1-4338-3025-9

Department/School

TSBE

Publisher

American Psychological Association

Place of publication

Washington D.C.

Extent

17

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Copyright 2019 American Psychological Association

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