An Effective Approach to Mental Health Challenges: A Framework for Best Practice in the Workplace

Sarah Riding ()
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Sarah Riding: University of Salford

Chapter 20 in The Palgrave Handbook of Disability at Work, 2020, pp 351-366 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Drawing from first-hand experiences the authors demonstrate that three strands are necessary to enable those with severe and enduring mental health challenges to be more likely to thrive in the workplace: preparation into work, reframing of the culture of the workplace and a wider recognition of the impact of cultural determinism in developing presuppositions about people who are identified with severe/enduring mental health challenges. We draw on an understanding of how people with severe/enduring mental health challenges have been pathologized and reactions transported into the population through an uncritical orientation, creating a narrow populist assumption which reinforces the perception of mental illness as something to be ashamed or afraid of. In considering the development of workplace practice the authors suggest a model that seeks to challenge the discreditation of people with severe and enduring mental health needs using a ‘Cultural Reform’ model of practice developed with service users.

Keywords: Stigma; Mental health; Workplace culture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-42966-9_20

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