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Developing an Integrated Approach to Workplace Mental Health
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LaMontagne, AD and Martin, A and Page, KM and Reavley, NJ and Noblet, AJ and Milner, AJ and Keegel, T and Allisey, A and Papas, A and Witt, K and Smith, PM, Developing an Integrated Approach to Workplace Mental Health, Total Worker Health: Integrative Approaches to Safety, Health & Wellbeing, American Psychological Association, HL Hudson, JAS Nigam, SL Sauter, LC Chosewood, AL Schill, J Howard (ed), Washington D.C., pp. 211-227. ISBN 978-1-4338-3025-9 (2019) [Research Book Chapter]
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Abstract
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
Item Details
| Item Type: | Research Book Chapter |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | workplace mental health |
| Research Division: | Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services |
| Research Group: | Human resources and industrial relations |
| Research Field: | Human resources management |
| Objective Division: | Economic Framework |
| Objective Group: | Management and productivity |
| Objective Field: | Management |
| UTAS Author: | Martin, A (Professor Angela Martin) |
| ID Code: | 130348 |
| Year Published: | 2019 |
| Deposited By: | TSBE |
| Deposited On: | 2019-01-22 |
| Last Modified: | 2022-12-22 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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