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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