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Employers Meet to Learn How to Deal with Mental Health in the Workplace Morneau Shepell, in partnership with Bell Let's Talk, hosted Employers Connect, a multi-city event for workplace mental health in Canada's three largest cities. "This is an opportunity for us as workplace representatives and employers to speak with ...

5 Ways to Promote Mental Health in the Workplace with Technology - Organizations are focusing on mental health as a critical employee benefit. Find out how technology can help cut through the stigma and roll out an intelligent solution. Mental illness can prove to be a silent destroyer of workplace productivity and employee happiness. US employers cough up between ...

Mental health : Walking the talk in the workplace  - When Ingrid Ozols, the founder and managing director of Mental Health at Work, started working in the mental health space 15 years ago, people ...

mental health in the workplace  - Mikey Ellis, Head of Culture at Vinomofo attended a mental health first aid course with Roach and said that he has been able to provide help and ...

How to build mental health in the workplace - After all, one in four people will suffer from some sort of mental disorder during their lifetime, and half of all long-term office absences are related to ...

Prevalence of poor mental health is higher in the workplace than in general population  - Mental health and mental illness have come out of the shadows and moved into Canadian living rooms and board rooms thanks to many awareness ...

5 tips for managing mental health issues in the workplace  - With mental illness on the rise in America, it's a matter of when — not if — employers will have to navigate the tricky maze of mental health  ...

How do you deal with mental health problems in the workplace?  - She adds that mental illness “is like the situation used to be with gay rights. Like being in the closet, but mental illness is now the taboo instead”.

LGBT Mental Health Risks Can Be Rooted In Workplace, Advocates Say For the LGBT community, deciding "if" and "when" to come out can be very stressful whether it's a youngster or an adult in the workplace and sometimes that stress can lead to mental health issues. NY1's Cheryl Wills filed the following report. The Ali ...

Psychology Month highlights high cost of mental illness in the workplace - The Mental Health Commission of Canada estimates the economic burden of mental illness at more than $50 billion per year. The Public Health ...

Dismissiveness of Mental Illness in the Workplace and Protections for Employees  - When we think of “ mental health” problems, many of us envision obvious symptoms. But mental health presents challenges precisely ...

'We need to keep going,' Alfredsson tells hundreds at mental health breakfast Ducharme turned to the audience at that point to drive home how crucial support in the workplace can be to helping those who are struggling with mental illnesses . “You can have this impact on employees,” she told the bosses in the room. There have been ...

Managing stress and mental illness in the workplace  - Common mental health disorders, including depression and anxiety disorders, are the second leading cause of disability in Australia and affect around 20% of  ...

Mental health at the workplace  - But mental health problems are a serious reality in many workplaces and the sooner employers understand the seriousness of this phenomenon, the ...

Is your co-worker just obnoxious?  - According to the National Association of Mental Health in the USA, incidences of mental illness in the workplace are not uncommon. They report that ...

Workplace mental health guide sets national standard In Toronto on Wednesday, federal Labour Minister Lisa Raitt, the Mental Health Commission of Canada, the Canadian Standards Association and Quebec's standards development body (BNQ) launched the voluntary standard on psychological health and ...

Mental illness : who's faking it?  - In recent years, awareness of mental health in the workplace has ramped up – and rightly so. An employee's job can often be a source of mental  ...

Depression in the workplace remains problematic, costs employers billions  - While depression and other mental illnesses are covered under the vast majority of corporate health care plans, the stigma associated with the ...

End mental health stigma, says partner  - He said that mental illness should be treated like any other illness in the workplace in order for it to be properly managed, and noted that a cancer ...

New mental health 'bible' gets the thumbs down : Australia is set for a sharp rise in workplace mental health claims because of changes in how mental illness is defined, workplace experts and psychiatrists fear.