...How does employee hidden mental illness manifest adversely in workplaces? An employee hidden mental illness has become the most prevalent illness found in western societies today. It has widely emerged within many workplace organisations and surprisingly remains largest among the medical and health sciences fields. According to De Lorenzo and Mirella (2013), hidden mental illnesses effect between 17% and 20% of employees in a given twelve month period. The most common hidden mental illnesses are depression and anxiety, depression effecting 4% and anxiety 14% of employees in a twelve month period. The socio-economic impact of mental illness within the workplace is frightening, the loss of productivity and costs have already caused major damage, and serious consequences for the future when depression and anxiety within the workplace increase. Mental illnesses within the workplace can be worsened if the employee has poor self-management of their illness, which includes inconsistent medication use, and social factors such as low social support, discussed by Munir, Yarker, Haslam, Long, Leka, Griffiths and Cox (2007). Mental illnesses are not treated like physical illnesses by society. They are pushed aside and not seen as a real disease that impairs peoples abilities because it is an invisible illness. Stigma of mental illnesses within the workplace is a major reason why employees choose to conceal their issues. Employees can feel labelled, less capable and treated differently...
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...what researchers might have overlooked on the topic of mental illness. Although scholars have claimed that mental illness can be managed with medication and treatment, it is important to discuss the impact of underlying factors and reasons behind mental illness. In addition, scholars need to focus on how does a person develop a mental illness, since it is becoming an epidemic with new cases each day. Why is it that some researchers discuss on how there is a stigma on mental health instead of focusing on the reasons of why a person develops the illness? A counterargument against my thesis is that mental illness is not a stigma and should not be treated as a physical problem in society. My working thesis will help to call attention to people living with mental illness, effects of mental illness in the workplace, school, effects on learning abilities, effects of social media, effects on hospitals, and overall quality of life....
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... Psychology of Health in the Workplace Paper Health and Psychology are overlapping concepts that describe the well-being and mental influences that motivate to respond to their health psychologically and physically. Health can be explained as optimal wellness or type of illness (Sarafino, 2011). In other words, health is whether someone is experiencing symptoms or simply how their current state of their body. This essay will take a look at the interrelatedness of health and psychology, health in the workforce, and lifestyle choices that can be done to deter illness and chronic diseases. Psychology and Health relationship Psychology and health provides a reasoning that an individual personality and mental process influence their health (Sarafino, 2011). For instance, health might be pre-determines biologically such as genetics and DNA. Psychological factors such as negative emotions, conscientiousness, anxiety, stress, hostility, and pessimism may impact an individual health. For example, an individual may become depress and utilize high-fat foods to deal with depression, which in turns contributes to obesity and weight gain. Another aspect on how health and psychology relationship combines is through behaviorism to impact health positively. Few examples of the goals through behaviorism, for health and psychology is motivating health and wellness, averting illnesses, classifying the causes of illnesses and dysfunctions, and improving health...
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...Current Event Mental health has always been surrounded by stigma, and the first step in treating the illness is to treat society’s perception of the illness. The news article that was chosen for analysis is about the province of Ontario offering mental health support for workers of high-risk occupations. The article states that mental health illnesses account for approximately 30 percent of disability claims, an issue that Ontario seeks to support (Traber 2014). The province of Ontario launched the Roundtable on Traumatic Mental Stress in 2012 to help encourage healthy work environments, which brought together representatives of many professions, including nursing (Traber 2014). It is known that nursing is a profession that can be physically...
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...Study on Mental Illness Cherelle Floyd HCA/210 March 2, 2011 Mental illnesses are medical conditions that disrupt a person’s thinking, feeling, mood, ability to relate to others and daily functioning. Just as diabetes is a disorder of the pancreas, mental illnesses are medical conditions that often result in diminished capacity for coping with the ordinary demands of life. Serious mental illnesses include major depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), panic disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and borderline personality disorder. The good news about mental illness is that recovery is possible. Mental illnesses can affect persons of any age, race, religion, or income. Metal illnesses are not the result of personal weakness, lack of character, or poor upbringing. Mental illnesses are treatable. Most people diagnosed with a serious mental illness can experience relief from their symptom by actively participating in an individual treatment plan. In addition to medication treatment, psychosocial treatment such as cognitive behavioral therapy, interpersonal therapy, peer support groups and other community service can also be components of a treatment plan and that assist with recovery. The availability of transportation, diet, exercise, sleep, friends and meaningful paid or volunteer activities contribute to overall health and wellness, including mental illness recovery. Metal illnesses are serious medical illnesses. They cannot...
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...NAME: KANWAR SHAHRUKH ALI ROLL #: 014 CLASS: CV-2D ASSIGNMENT OF: PSYCHOLOGY SUBMITTED TO: MISS BATOOL MENTAL ILLNESSS (PROBLEMS) &WORK When discussing mental problems and work, "work" can mean a number of things. It can mean the workplace, as in where we go to do our jobs. It can also mean the act of working, what we do at our jobs, as a volunteer in the community, or what we like to do in the garden, kitchen or workshop to relax. The relationship between mental illness and work can be looked at in a number of different ways, including: • the stresses and strains today's workplace places on us; • the incredible pressure placed upon people to continue to perform at work when an illness strikes, and the extra strain this places on their families and friends; • the difficult barriers those persons diagnosed with a mental illness face in the working world; • the strain encountered by people who work while they care for someone with a mental illness at home; • the therapeutic role the act of work plays in helping to reduce stress and improve mental health; and, • the benefits work can bring in guiding people diagnosed with a mental illness toward recovery, rebuilding their self-esteem and hopefully returning to the jobs they left when the illness struck. What is Mental Illness? The first step toward discussing mental illness and helping eliminate myths, misconceptions and stereotypes is to understand what a psychiatric illness is. In general...
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... Abuse Paper I believe that as more of people become aware of the dangers of smoking tobacco, the percentage of smokers has fallen from around 50 per cent of the population in the 1950s to 25 per cent in 2003. The illnesses can cause cancer, heart disease and respiratory illnesses. Smoking can cause impotence, ulcers and fertility problems and it's doesn't just harm smokers. However, the decline in smoking in the population has leveled off and the percentage of people smoking in the last 10 years seems to have remained at around 25 per cent. But the good news is that about 70 per cent of smokers say they want to quit. Yet success rates for quit attempts are between 10 and 20 per cent. I also believe that the problem starts in the childs childhood, because they start to experimenting with cigarettes in their teens. Children whose parents smoke are twice as likely to start smoking compared to those with non smoking parents. Also I have read that there are 11 to 15 year olds who were most likely to be smokers due to being lonely and had difficulty talking to their parents, had problems at school and started drinking alcohol. When it come to how smoking tobacco affects the workplace I believe that smoking in the workplace often results in higher expenses for employers. These costs are attributed to increased absenteeism, lower productivity, unscheduled smoke breaks, maintenance of smoking areas, property damage, and health and fire insurance costs. Other studies...
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...only to the employees but the business as a whole. An employee assistant program or EAP is a confidential, employer-sponsored initiative that provides emotional, mental and physical health support services, to help support issues that may affect an employee’s work. Most services in program offer some sort of counseling. Examples of ways in which an employee assistance program offers support include alcohol and substance abuse intervention, individual and couples counseling, and financial assistance for health related expenditures (“Components of an Employee Assistant Program”). These services and programs are a benefit offered by employers as a means to encourage employee retention as well as improve the productivity and culture of the work environment. Services offered are free of charge on a short-term basis. As businesses and the economy change, the employee assistant program adapts in response to the changing nature of the workplace, business and employee needs. Studies have shown that mental illnesses are very common in the United States as well as internationally. An estimated 26.2 percent of Americans ages 18 and older which equates to one in four adults: suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given...
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...their decisions. The purpose of this assignment is to develop a guideline to support mental wellbeing in the workplace by providing a framework based on evidence, to provide steps to reduce the stress of work overload by reducing the amount of time spent in meetings. Literature Support Work plays an important role in in supporting mental wellbeing. Work can also produce negative effects such as stress. Stress in the work place has been defined as “the adverse reaction people have to excessive pressure or other types of demand placed on them” (Mental wellbeing at work, 2009, p.45). In clinical practices,...
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...like that. Many teenagers, girls included, do not see a problem with the way that women are treated in society and that limits the possibility of change. Teenagers need to be more aware of the misogyny that remains in our society to limit mental illness, dangerous social stigmas, and violence towards women. The root of many gender issues is objectification. One direct effect of this objectification is increased mental illness rates for young girls. Unrealistic body standards and expectations will make many girls believe that their body is the most important thing about themselves. Women are constantly sexualized and objectified in the media. This impacts what we value in ourselves. We learn as young women that our body is incredibly valuable and is something that needs to be protected. The American Psychological Association says that growing up seeing objectification in images, media, and their everyday life, can lead to a range of mental issues, not just eating disorders. Some of these illnesses include low self-esteem, depression, high risk of sexual behavior and sometimes impaired mental functioning in logical processing (Sardy). In a world where sexualization is prevalent in places like the media, workplaces and schools, mental illnesses rooted from objectification are very common and are also widely undiagnosed. The APA believes that by developing educational media literacy programs in public schools, advising media industry leaders to examine their role in the process...
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...| Wellness in the Workplace | 11-24-2013 | Table of Contents Executive Summary 4 DEFINING WELLNESS 5 Employee wellness 5 WELLNESS IN THE WORKPLACE 6 How wellness impacts employees and employers 6 Organizations with wellness plans 7 Implementation of a wellness plan 8 Recommendations for a Marketing Agency 8 CONCLUSION 10 Works Cited 11 Executive Summary In this report you will learn about wellness in the workplace. The Government of Canada says that Canadians are becoming less well each year, this has resulted in more missed time at work and more money being spent by employers. This report will inform employers on the current wellness programs within other organizations, and how to implement their own wellness plan using some beginner strategies. If implemented correctly, these changes could impact the lives of their employees greatly. The health of Canadians is deteriorating at an alarming rate. 52.5% of Canadians are considered overweight or obese, only 53.9% of Canadians consider themselves physically active. Nova Scotia is the only province that reports a higher percentage of residents with diabetes than the national average, at 8.6% (The Government of Canada, 2013). Health related diseases are on the rise, as are insurance rates to compensate. It’s not just the physical health of Canadians that is deteriorating, it’s also our mental health. The number of Canadians suffering from depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder...
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...Assessment Part A Workplace project OHS policy Young aged care recognizes its responsibility to provide a healthy and safe working environment for employees, contractors, patients and visitors. At Young aged care, Occupational Health & Safety (OHS) is understood in a broad context and beyond the once traditional view of physical injuries sustained from accidents in the workplace. Occupational Health & Safety now extends to the evaluation of the workplace climate. Young aged care is committed to the provision of a safe and healthy work environment for all patients, families, staff, volunteers, contractors and visitors. RCH maintains a process of continuous development and improvement of its safety management systems in order to achieve key objectives as follows: * Incorporate OHS considerations in relation to physical and mental wellbeing into all work processes * Consult with staff in a meaningful and effective manner on OHS and related issues * Identify, assess and control risks in consultation with staff * Provide OHS and related training and instruction * Provide Emergency Management training and drills * Set OHS performance targets at organisational, divisional, management and individual levels * Seek continued improvement of OHS performance through analysis of best practice and benchmarking. * Provide OHS equipment, services and facilities to achieve best practice OHS performance for the health sector ...
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...Employment At-Will Bill Williams Strayer University LEG /500 May 5, 2015 Prof. Robert Poydasheff This chapter begins with perspectives on work-related risks—both the avoidable and the unavoidable. The legal backdrop includes the watershed Occupational Health and Safety Act of 1970, embodying a national policy to reduce or prevent occupational harms, and laws designed to compensate those who suffer them. In the final section we explore the twenty-first-century global dimensions of workplace health and safety. Throughout, we pay particular attention those who are most vulnerable. Confronting Risk in the Work Environment: The WTC Cleanup In November 2004, an Army National Guard medic filed a class action against the Environ- mental Protection Agency (EPA), the White House Council on Environmental Quality, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) on behalf of all those who worked in the immediate vicinity of the World Trade Center from September 11, 2001 to October 31, 2001. The court must decide if those allegations are enough to allow plaintiffs to move to the next step—a trial. The collapse of the World Trade Center towers on [September 11, 2001] generated a cloud of debris that coated the surrounding buildings and streets of Lower Manhattan with concrete dust, asbestos, lead, and other building materials. Fires within the wreck- age burned for months, emitting various metals and particulate matter in addition to such potentially harmful substances...
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...The vocational occupation chosen for this assignment is Adult Nursing. “Adult nurses care for adult patients who are suffering from a variety of health conditions, ranging from minor injuries and ailments, to acute and long-term illnesses and diseases. They support recovery by using care plans, carrying out care procedures and assessments, and evaluating and focusing on the needs of the patient rather than the illness or condition.”(Written by AGCAS editors) With regards to this assignment and the occupation of Adult Nursing the associated risks need to be investigated, as well as the appropriate control measures within the working environment. The assignment will focus on how noise and sound, stress, diet, exercise, lifestyle, dangerous chemicals...
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