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Organisational Mental Health Awareness Vs Crisis Mental Health Support
Mental Health Awareness
- Psycho-education
- Aim to proactively raise awareness of general mental health and psychological distress in the workplace
- Raises awareness of helpful and unhelpful coping strategies for psychological wellbeing
- Reduces stigma around mental health
- Fosters supportive dialogue between peers
- Encourages signposting to workplace mental health support
Peer-level Crisis Mental Health Care
- Structured crisis intervention
- Psychological equivalent to physical first aid
- Provided within first few hours up to four weeks after a mental health crisis
- Includes ongoing psycho-social support provided by workplace peers trained in trauma-focused psychological first aid
- Generally, optional support by crisis mental health professionals for major incidents
- Provides stabilisation, mitigation and proactively supports recovery from a mental health crisis.
- Provided to people experiencing a mental health crisis. Where a mental health crisis is defined as ‘a person experiencing distress/upset after an event(s) which has overwhelmed or impaired their usual coping mechanisms’.