WORKPLACE MENTAL HEALTH

While being employed is generally better for our mental health than unemployment, some factors at work such as job stress, sexual harassment, workplace harassment, conflict with co-workers etc. can have a negative effect on our health and wellbeing. 

“Too often, a lack of support and       understanding by employers means we do not recognize mental health difficulties in the workplace. This leads to a reduced pool of employees, more time off through sickness and lower productivity.”
 
The following are the services offered to promote a mentally healthy work

1. Pre-employment Psychological Evaluation: Ensuring a candidate has the right personal attributes and skills is as important as ensuring they are physically suited to the demands of the job.
   1. Personality test
   2. Psychological Interview 
2. Drug Testing: Drug testing should be every organization legal and moral obligation to ensure safety of workers and clients
   1. Pre-employment drug testing
   2. Random drug testing: Studies have shown that employees that abuse drugs are far more likely to stop when there is random drug testing in place 
3. Training/Education: various courses designed to ensure a mentally healthy work place. The following are the courses available:
   
   1. Stress Management and Mindfulness: This session is designed to teach employees how to renegotiate their relationship with tension through cognitive and physical relaxation technique. Stress can be caused by a variety of factors - which may include work-related factors or personal issues outside the workplace, singly or in combination. Various relaxation methods and coping skills used toprevent and manage stress will be emphasized.
   2. Alcohol & Drug Abuse Prevention: This session is designed to educate employees on the effects of Alcohol and Drugs on physical health, work, personal relationships, and risk to one self and others. It will also help employees examine the root causes of problematic and excessive use of alcohol and other drugs and offer alternate coping skills to deal with stress.
      
   3. Sexual Harassment Prevention: This session is designed to define what constitutes as sexual harassment. Demonstrates how to identify and resolve sexual harassment. Educates all employees on how to recognize and report potential sexual harassment early. It also teaches employees their role in creating a sexual harassment-free workplace.
      
   4. Workplace Harassment Prevention: This session is designed to define what constitutes as workplace harassment. Demonstrates how to identify and resolve hostile work environment. Educates all employees on how to recognize and report potential harassment early. It also teaches employees their role in creating a hostile-free workplace.
      
   5. Workplace Conflict Resolution: This session is designed to train managers/supervisors ways to work with their employees to resolve conflict in the workplace by providing supervisors with the knowledge to recognize causes of workplace conflict, how to facilitate resolution of conflict and how to manage the work relationships once the conflict has been resolved. It provides practical steps and techniques that everyone can learn.