Mental health and work 2
Session details
Date:
Time:
Location:
Zoom videoconferencing
Didactic presentation by:
Lina Di Carlo
Session objectives
At the end of this session, participants should be able to:
- Explain how employers and healthcare practitioners can work collaboratively to support an individual, with a mental health condition, to facilitate an effective return to work.
- List the organizational factors required to provide a healthy work environment which supports an individual to obtain appropriate health care, facilitate a return to work and fully integrate into the workplace.
- Describe how stigma impacts an individual’s ability to obtain appropriate health care.
Session resources
Didactic presentation: Mental health and work 2
In this presentation, Lina Di Carlo discusses how employers and healthcare practitioners can work collaboratively to support an individual, with a mental health condition, to facilitate an effective return to work; the organizational factors required to provide a healthy work environment which supports an individual to obtain appropriate health care, facilitate a return to work and fully integrate into the workplace; and how stigma impacts an individual’s ability to obtain appropriate health care.
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Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP)
The WRAP process supports you to identify the tools that keep you well and create action plans to put them into practice in your everyday life. All along the way, WRAP helps you incorporate key recovery concepts and wellness tools into your plans and your life. Source: WRAP
WSIB: Community Mental Health Program
The Community Mental Health Program gives people access to psychological assessment and evidence-based, outcome-focused treatment and lets psychologists spend more time on treating people and less on administration. The WSIB and the Ontario Psychological Association collaborated in developing this program. Source: Workplace Safety and Insurance Board
WSIB: Work-Related Mental Stress Injuries
You may be eligible for support from the WSIB if you have experienced a mental stress injury that can be shown to have resulted either from a traumatic incident or series of incidents at work that are substantial stressors. Source: Workplace Safety and Insurance Board
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