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Non Clinical Approach to

Mental Health in the Workplace

Context

Context and factors that should motivate ACTION and INNOVATION

• Only 41% of employees feel they can acknowledge an illness and still get ahead in their careers

• 45% of benefits managers and middle managers reported knowing little or nothing about depression as an illness

Source: University of Michigan's Depression Center

Context and factors that should motivate ACTION and INNOVATION...

“….. the longer someone is ill, the more treatment resistant their illness becomes…..”

Source: Dr. Diane McIntosh (Psychiatrist)

Context and factors that should motivate ACTION and INNOVATION...

Only 35% seek treatment while the remaining 65% do not.

Source: Dr Richard Earle of the Canadian Institute of Stress

Context and factors that should motivate ACTION and INNOVATION...

• Disability represents anywhere from 4% to

12% of payroll costs in Canada

• Mental health claims (especially depression) have overtaken cardiovascular disease as the fastest growing category of disability costs in Canada

Source: Global Business and Economic Roundtable on Addiction and Mental Health

Struck Down

Set new paradigms

Healthy Reacting Injured Ill

Social

Social

Social

Social

Clinical

Adaptive coping

Clinical

Mild and reversible distress or functional impairment

Clinical

More severe, persistent injury or impairment

Clinical

Clinical illnesses and disorders requiring concentrated medical care

Set new paradigms

Mental Health

Stress Injuries Mental Illness

Set new paradigms

Stress Injury

TRAUMA FATIGUE GRIEF

MORAL

CONFLICT

Embrace the obvious

During

Before

After

Psychiatric

History

Childhood

Abuse

Other

Prior

Trauma

Trauma

Severity

Additional

Stressors

Lack of

Social Support

Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology - Brewin et al, 2000

Conceptual Peer Support Continuum

Future certified peer support workers

Clinical Care Peer Support

Formal Informal

Peer Peer

Support Support

Workplaces

MH System

Friendship

Peer Support “Blue Print”

Standards of Practice

Organizational requirements for success

Code of

Conduct

Competencies

Knowledge Experience

Principles of Practice

Core Values

Outcomes &

Evaluations Methods

Alone

References

[1] Creamer et al., Guidelines for Peer Support in High-Risk Organizations: An International Consensus Study Using the

Delphi Method. Journal of Traumatic Stress April 2012 Vol 25 pages 134–141

[2] O'Hagan, M., Cyr, C., McKee, H., & Priest, R. (2010). Making the case for peer support: Report to the Mental Health Commission of Canada

Mental Health Peer Support Project Committee. Calgary: Mental Health Commission of Canada.

[3] Provencher, Gagné & Legris, 2012; L’INTÉGRATION DE PAIRS AIDANTS DANS DES ÉQUIPES DE SUIVI ET DE SOUTIEN DANS LA

COMMUNAUTÉ: POINTS DE VUE DE DIVERS ACTEURS Rapport final de recherche (version sommaire) Université Laval Février 2012

[4] Chinman, Young, Hassell & Davidson, 2006; Toward the Implementation of Mental Health Consumer Provider Services ; The Journal of

Behavioral Health Services and Research Volume 33, Number 2 (2006), 176-195, DOI: 10.1007/s11414-006-9009-3

[5] Coatsworth-Puspoky, R., Forchuk, C., & Ward Griffin, C. (2006). Peer support relationships: an unexplored interpersonal process in mental health. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health; Nursing, Vol 13, 490-497.

[6] Corrigan, P.W. (2006). The impact of consumer-operated services on the empowerment and recovery of people with psychiatric disabilities.

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[8] Sandra G. Resnick; Robert A. Rosenheck, 2008 Integrating Peer-Provided Services: A Quasi-experimental Study of Recovery Orientation,

Confidence, and Empowerment Psychiatric Services 2008;doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.59.11.1307

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[10] Pfeiffer, Heisler, et al. (2011). "Efficacy of peer support interventions for depression: A meta-analysis." General Hospital Psychiatry 33(1):

29-36.

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