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Shift Review Panel: What Works For You, Mental Health Foundation
28th January 2010 at 10:09
Review by the Shift Review Panel
Originator: Mental Health Foundation
Type of product: Managing mental ill health in the workplace
Target audience: People in the workplace
Publication status: Published December 2008
Format: Booklet and downloadable pdf version
Purpose:
- To provide people at work with the appropriate skills and advice on how to identify and support colleagues experiencing a mental health problem
- To signpost where to go for further help and guidance
- To create more mentally healthy workplaces.
OVERALL ASSESSMENT
from the Shift Review Panel
- This booklet explains simple steps they people at work can take to support a colleague who is experiencing a mental health problem. It is easy-to-read and engaging and the advice is practical and relevant.
- It includes a short explanation about mental health, and more detail about some common mental health problems.
- There is practical advice about how to talk to someone, listening tips, responding in a crisis and keeping in touch when someone is off sick with a mental health problem.
- The brief section about what you can do as a manager provides some practical guidance on how to deal with someone they think has a mental health problem. It would be helpful to acknowledge in this section that there is much more that you need to do as a manager to support mental health and wellbeing in the workplace.
- Overall, the booklet could provide a useful part of an organisations’ mental health management programme, but would probably need to be tailored to each organisation – for example, procedures around reasonable adjustments and Occupational Health advice would differ; and the image on the front would need to be less ‘industrial’ for some organisations. The resource should be made more generic, or alternatively targeted more specifically.
- The leaflet could be useful as a stand-alone item to help ensure people experiencing mental health problems get valuable support from their colleagues.
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Documents and links in this resource
- Full review of What Works For You (shiftreviewpanel_mhf_whatworksforyou.doc)
- Link to What Works For You page on the MHF website (web link)