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Mental health and well-being at the workplace ? protection and inclusion in challenging times

Mental health and well-being at the workplace ? protection and inclusion in challenging times

Edited by: Anja Baumann and Matt Muijen, WHO Regional Office for Europe, and Wolfgang Gaebel, German Alliance for Mental Health

Mental health and well-being at the workplace ? protection and inclusion in challenging

times

Edited by: Anja Baumann and Matt Muijen, WHO Regional Office for Europe, and Wolfgang Gaebel, German Alliance for Mental Health

Keywords

MENTAL HEALTH WORKPLACE VULNERABLE POPULATIONS SOCIALIZATION PUBLIC POLICY EUROPE

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CONTENTS Page Acknowledgements............................................................................................................... 1

Introduction ? Anja Baumann & Matt Muijen, WHO Regional Office for Europe......................... 2 Conference theme ................................................................................................................ 6

Protecting and including vulnerable people in times of economic crisis ? Paul Schnabel,Netherlands Institute for Social Research/SCP, The Hague, Netherlands ........... 6

Mental health and well-being at the workplace: requirements and recommendations.............. 11 The perspective of families of people with mental disorders ? Gudrun Schliebener, German Federal Association of Family Caregivers of People with Mental Illness (Familien-Selbsthilfe Psychiatrie BApK e.V.), Bonn, Germany ........................................ 11

Challenge of modern working life to mental well-being and social inclusion ............................ 13 Workplace-related mental health problems ? risks and prevention ? Karl Kuhn, European Network for Workplace Health Promotion, Essen, Germany ........................... 13 Preventing mental health problems at workplaces in Poland ? Patrycja Wojtaszczyk, Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, Poland ......................................................... 18 Managing mental health at BT ? Catherine Kilfedder, BT Group, London, United Kingdom.................................................................................................................... 20

Meeting the challenge of integration and empowerment at the workplace.............................. 24 Employment integration: the role of associations of people with mental illness and their families in Spain ? Maria San P?o, Spanish Confederation of Associations of Families and People with Mental Illness (FEAFES), Madrid, Spain ............................................... 24 IN-VALID-IN: integrating and reintegrating people with disabilities into the labour market ? Igor Hrast, Ozara Ltd Service and Disability Company .................................... 27 Pathways for integration into working life: Integrationsmanagement Bergedorf ? office for counselling and job search in a regional network ? Heidrun Thiel, Alsterarbeit, Hamburg, Germany.................................................................................................... 30

Overcoming stigma and discrimination at the workplace ....................................................... 33 Stigma and discrimination ? overcoming the barriers to employment ? Bob Grove, Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, London, United Kingdom....................................... 33 Overcoming stigma and discrimination at the workplace ? Marlies Hommelsen, German Federal Association of Family Caregivers of People with Mental Illness (FamilienSelbsthilfe Psychiatrie BApK e.V.), Bonn, Germany ....................................................... 40 Involving experts by experience: not only for mental health care ? Harrie P.M. van Haaster, Instituut voor Gebruikersparticipatie en Beleid, Amsterdam, Netherlands ......... 42

What can be done? What has to be done? Recommendations for policy-making to encourage mental health at the workplace ........................................................................................... 46

Summary ? Anja Baumann, WHO Regional Office for Europe........................................ 46 Recommendations and outlook ? Wolfgang Gaebela, Wiebke Ahrenas, Anja Baumannb & Matt Muijenb, aGerman Alliance for Mental Health, Berlin, Germany, bWHO Regional Office for Europe ....................................................................................................... 50

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