Links
to resources:
Common mental health problems at work: What we now know about
successful interventions. A progress review
Centre
for mental health and BOHRF, June 2010
This review draws on and extends the
systematic review carried out by British Occupational Health
Research Foundation (BOHRF) in 2005. It looks at common
mental health conditions such as anxiety and depression which are
the predominant health problems in people of working age.
Among the key findings of this review are that :-
* different practitioners
have valuable and complementary roles to play, in order to achieve
positive outcomes. The role of GPs in providing advice and
support as part of the ‘fit note’ process and having the time, the
relevant skills and seeking support from occupational health and
employment advisers is stressed.
* Independent case
management by third party specialists, such as labour experts or
employment advisers, is critical to achieving successful outcomes
for individuals and organisations where employees are not
recovering as expected.
Advising
Patients About Work: An evidence-based approach for General
Practitioners and other healthcare professionals
Department for Work and Pensions,
2007
This eight page leaflet was developed as part
of the Health, Work and Wellbeing initiative. It includes
basic information that GPs and healthcare professionals should seek
and record about a patient’s work status as well as topics for
discussion with the patient. It includes a short list of
evidence base publications and other resources.
Health
Work Wellbeing
Health, Work and Well-being is a
cross-Government initiative to protect and improve the health and
well-being of working age people. It is sponsored by five
Government departments including the Department of Health,
Department for Work and Pensions and the Health and Safety
Executive. The ‘our work’ section includes links to projects
such as the National Education Programme for GPs which is due to
run until March 2011. There are also links to the regional
Health, Work and Wellbeing coordinators who bring health and
employment specialists together and the Employment Advisers in the
Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme.
(Please note that some of
the content on the website is being dispersed to other websites
such as Business Link and Direct Gov).
Systematic review of
workplace interventions for people with common mental health
problems: A summary for health professionals, 2005
This leaflet summarises the findings of a
systematic review and highlights the importance of Cognitive
Behavioural Therapy (CBT) conducted by GPs or occupational health
physicians or via referral to psychologists or psychotherapists
Computerised
cognitive behaviour therapy (CCBT) for depression and anxiety
(Review of Technology Appraisal 51),
National Institute for
Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), 2010
This is the link to NICE recommendations for
using CCBT for mild and moderate depression and also for panic and
phobia conditions.
Doing what works: Individual placement and support into
employment
Briefing
40, Centre for Mental Health, February 2009
People who experience severe and enduring
mental health problems have one of the lowest employment rates in
the UK. Yet the vast majority want to work, and with the right
support many people can. Large numbers of people have and can
be supported to get and keep paid competitive employment through
Individual Placement and Support (IPS).
Individual Placement and Support has seven key
principles, each of which is needed for the service to work well.
They include focusing on paid employment of an individual's choice,
and support that continues once the person gets a job.
This briefing outlines the evidence base for
IPS and provides information on how to 'do what works'.
Realising
ambitions: Better employment support for people with a mental
health condition
Rachel Perkins, Paul
Farmer and Paul Litchfield
Department for
Work and Pensions, December 2009
This review was commissioned by the Secretary
of State for Work and Pensions to look at mental health and
employment and to identify how Government could help people with
mental health conditions fulfil their employment ambitions.
Chapter 5 of the report
sets out the evidence base for effective support for people with
mental health conditions to access work compared with traditional
vocational rehabilitation schemes. It includes a clear
diagram of how health and social services should link with welfare
to work services, Disability Employment Advisors, mental health
coordinators in Job Centre Plus etc. It includes a summary of the
seven principles of the IPS approach and its implementation in the
UK. Appendix 3
sets out examples of the additional support that people with mental
health conditions might need at different stages in the transition
to work.
Commissioning what works: the economic and financial case for
supported employment
Briefing
41, Centre for Mental Health, September 2009
This briefing paper examines the cost of
providing Individual Placement and Support (IPS) services against
that of other employment services. It shows that IPS, which
helps people into paid competitive work, is effective, is good
value for money and is affordable to the NHS. The review
concludes that IPS is by far the most effective way of helping
people who use mental health services to get jobs. And those who
work regularly make less use of mental health services, needing
fewer hospital admissions, as well as having a better quality of
life and a higher income.
Mental health and employment: Key opportunities to put policy into
practice
Centre
for Mental Health, April 2010
This summarises the four interlinked policy
initiatives launched in December 2009 (Working our Way to Better
Health, New Horizons, Work, Recovery and Inclusion and Realising
Ambitions: better employment support for people with a mental
health condition) and sets out how these are being
implemented. This publication includes links to information
on the ‘Centres of Excellence in IPS’ which are exemplars of how
IPS can be implemented across England.
Work Matters – Vocational Guidance for Occupational Therapy
Staff
Social
Inclusion Unit, Department of Health and College of Occupational
Therapists, November 2007
This is a joint publication which looks at the
barriers to employment, and how occupational therapists (OT) can
help their clients overcome them. It describes a process of
vocational navigation in which the OT co-operates with the client
in the journey back to work. Hints are given on how to conduct ‘the
work conversation’ and there is a list of useful resources
including various tools for OTs relating to occupation.
Vocational
Rehabilitation: What works, for whom, and when?
Gordon
Waddell, A Kim Burton and Nicholas AS Kendall, July
2008
This review assessed the evidence on the
effectiveness (and cost-effectiveness) of vocational rehabilitation
interventions and contains practical suggestions on what vocational
rehabilitation interventions are likely to work, for whom and when.
One finding is the importance of the first six weeks of sickness
absence where most people with common health problems can be helped
to return to work by following a few basic principles of healthcare
and workplace management.
Using NICE guidance in mental health
Ingrid
Torjesen, Nursing times, 2007
This article summarises an audit carried out
by a community mental health team of their practice against NICE
guidance. The article includes information on an employment
initiative set up by the team which offers service users paid
employment mentoring nursing students, occupational therapists and
social workers.
100 ways to support recovery: a guide for mental health
professionals
Mike Slade, Rethink, May
2009
This report was written by Dr Mike Slade and
identifies 100 ways in which people working across the mental
health sector can support the recovery of people with mental health
problems. It is divided into four sections, one of which
looks at ‘developing valued social roles’.
Making Recovery a Reality
Geoff Shepherd, Jed
Boardman, Mike Slade. Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health,
2008.
This paper provides an introduction to the
ideas of Recovery and says mental health services need to change
radically to focus on Recovery. They need to demonstrate success in
helping service users to get their lives back and giving service
users the chance to make their own decisions about how they live
their lives.
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