PSY2001 W2 Reading Flashcards
Mental health in the workplace
What does this article provide?
Review
Definitions of employee mental health
Costs of employee mental illness to organizations and to society as a whole
Role of the workplace in promoting positive mental health, preventing mental illness, intervening to address employee mental ill health, and accommodating employees experiencing mental health challenges.
What is an echo pandemic?
Dozoic 2020
During which we cna expect to see an epidemic of mental health problems following the covid19 pandemic
What was the leading cuase of diability among the working population in 2019?
WHO
Mental health issues
What are costs that organisation face ?
Costs are experienced through absenteeism, presenteeism, reduced producitivty increased turnover and host of other organizational behaviour.
What is a main cost to organisation?
Much of the organizational cost of mental illness emerges from disability leave, the leave for mental health issues is typically lenghty and approximately 30-40% long term disability liams result from mental illness.
What is the impact of operations on organisations?
may experience reduced attention, reduced capacity to focus on the work, and fatigue that leads to diminished performance or absenteeism.
Negative beliefs and stereotypes about individuals with mental health problems (i.e., stigma) can alter social interactions in the workplace.
Coworkers may question workload allocations when accommodations are made and supervisors may experience frustration related to the impact of an employee’s ill health on the workplace.
What does mental health operate on?
continuum typically ranging from helthy to ill
How is the state of mental healthiness typically defined?
state of well-being in which the individual realizes [their] own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to [their] community
What is included in healthy behaviours?
include normal mood fluctuations, calmness, good performance, being in control, normal sleep
patterns, being physically well, and limited or no alcohol use;
What is included in ill behvaiours?
ill behaviors include angry outbursts or aggression,excessive anxiety or panic attacks,depression,suicidal thoughts,inability to perform
duties, inability to fall asleep or stay asleep,physical illnesses,and alcohol or other addictions
How is well-being defined?
encompassing both mental and phyiscal halth comprising happness and te experiences of pleasnt emotions and satisfaction that make life worht living
What are the three categories of wellbeing?
Paintional wellebing: cognitive appraisal of satisfaction with life in general
Psychological wellbeing: self acceptance, personal growth, purpose in life, positive relations with others, atonomy, enviornment mastery
Social wellbeing: subjective evaluation of personal life circumstances and functionign in society
How does stigma affect the workplace?
Stigma—or the fear of stigma—can affect help-seeking behavior when individuals experiencing mental health difficulties avoid seeking or receiving treatment due to the fear of being discriminated against.
What is psychological strain?
Prolonged state of distress and tension, characterized by impaired mental health and well-being. It is not a diagnosable mental illness, according to the DSM-5. It fits in the injured within the continuum. It consistes of answiousnness, fatigue, poor sleep quality, poor performance and depressive symotims. This strain may result from prolonged stress
What is burnout?
State of emotional,mental,and sometimes physical exhaustion due toprolonged stress.
It is not considered a diagnosable mental illness within
the DSM-5.
Included in the World Health Organization’s tenth and eleventh revisions of the International Classification of Diseases.
Burnout is classified as an occupational phenomenon rather than a medical condition.It is characterized by emotional exhaustion, cynicism, and detachment
Burnout is often understood with references to the workplace, but the experiences of burnout can be felt
in other areas of life, such as parenting or other forms of caretaking (Hakanen et al. 2008).
What does the allostatic load model think?
when bodily systems (e.g., neuroendocrine, metabolic, cardiovascular, immune) become consistently dysregulated due to stressors,a series of cognitive and physiological reactions take place and the risk of long-term health effects,including strain,is elevated.
What is the job demands resources thoery?
When high levels of job demands (i.e.,aspects of work that require energy) are sustained over time, employees may experience strain, whereas when resources (i.e., aspects of work that assist employees in coping with demands and in performing their work) are high, employees are likely to cope better with stressors.
What is the demands resources thoery?
resources motivate employees extrinsically by enabling them to achieve their work goals and intrinsically by satisfying their basic psychological needs for belonging, competence, and autonomy.
Job resources like leadership, autonomy, social support, and meaning are most consistently supportive of employee well-being and mental health outcomes
Can work provide resources to employees that may promote mental health?
Work itself can be a resource that may promote mental health, because it is a source of structure, social benefits, purpose, identity, and, obviously, livelihood and security in the form of income
Leadership: promote wellbeing and poor leadershp may detrimental to wellbeing. Transformational leadership, which is characterized by behavior that motivates and inspires employees.
Meaning: work can be an important source of meaning in life and life satisfaction, promotes sense of fulfillment and personal growth.
Support: social resources, support from supervisors at work may help stressed emplooyess to cope, problem solve, reduceimportant stressor, receiveresources for stressor
Autonomy and control promote well being
What does psychologically healthy workplace refer to?
The notion of a psychologically healthy workplace refers to a workplace that reduces stressors and provides resources to employees that can promote their health and wellbeing
What are the 5 dimensions of healthy work environement?
five key dimensions of a healthy work environment: work-life balance; recognition, employee involvement, growth and development and health and safety
What are observale behavioural warning sign ?
emotional distress (crying, complaining), withdrawal (reduced social interaction at workk, reduced effort in work tasks), attendance changes and reductions in performance, and extreme behaviour
What are the three pilars of workplace mental health programming?
Prevention
Intervention (mental health literacy training)
Accommodation (return to work and stay at work accom)
What are the implications of research?
Adopt multidisciplinary approaches that integrate theories of mental health.
Examine moderators of relationships between work variables and mental health/illness variables.
Develop and evaluate primary intervention strategies that promote mental health.
Identify boundary conditions of mental health intervention strategies.
Conduct research using theory-driven and application-focused approaches to derive implications for both research and practice.
What are the implications for practice?
Adopt evidence-based and effective mental health interventions, services, and programs.
Cultivate a strong mental health climate that encourages open and safe communication about mental health or illness.
Prioritize supportive supervision and mental health literacy in management selection and training.
Create opportunities for employees to engage in meaningful work.
Provide employees with the time and resources to access mental health support
