Overview:

Employers are seeing more mental health issues in their workforce than ever before. COVID enhanced mental health concerns even more. Each year 1 in 5 adults is stricken with a mental illness (National Institute of Mental health), making mental illness an everyday reality for many of your employees.

Yet only 1 in 3 people seek help with their illness. The ADA, HIPPA, FMLA and most states’ human/civil rights department dictate how employers deal with employees with mental health problems. Privacy laws create challenges for employers to determine how serious a situation is and whether an employee poses a danger (though those with a mental illness pose no more risk of violence than those without a mental illness).

Examples of the most common psychological disorders include major depression and dysthymia, bipolar disorder, anxiety, schizophrenia, and an array of personality disorders. Those individuals with depressions have 2.5 times the risk of on-the-job injury. Workplace depression results in 200 million lost days annually. The disease is common, debilitating, and the number one cause of disability worldwide. Employers lose an estimated $52 billion annually in loss of productivity and insurance payments.

Why should you Attend:
Uncertainty is the very essence of mental health in the workplace. How does stress impact employee mental health and what should employers do to prevent or minimize stress and how to intervene to help employees’ mental health. Because managers and HR doubt their knowledge and skill in addressing employee mental health, they sometimes fear for the health and safety of their environment.

Areas Covered in the Session:

• To examine the role workplace stress plays in employee mental health
• To differentiate mental health from mental illness
• To discuss the most frequent mental health conditions with emphasis on depression, anxiety, and personality disorders
• To identify the demographic groups most at risk for mental health issues
• To examine the myths of mental illness
• To list signs of possible mental health issues in the workplace
• To explore the costs of mental illness to U.S. businesses
• To list prevention strategies to enhance employees’ mental health
• To discuss management’s role in both the prevention AND intervention strategies to deal with mental health in your workplace

• CEO
• COO
• CFO
• Directors
• Managers
• Supervisor
• HR
• Risk Management
• OSHA Professionals
• Occupational Health Nurse