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Workplace Mental Health: Whose role is it?

23 January 2012

When it comes to mental health in the workplace there’s little doubt that everyone has an important role to play in creating a healthy environment. But is there a role that has a higher duty of care to recognise when an employee is struggling?

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Christmas blues? Reach out to others

18 November 2011

Thinking about the best ways you can create a sense of “belonging” in your workplace can have a positive effect on people’s mental health and help build a stronger and more cohesive team this festive season.

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Communicating mental health in the workplace

15 November 2011

If this article had been written five years ago it may have been a very different story. Mental health simply wasn't on the radar. Talking about it in the workplace? Are you mad?

Read more in this guest post by Doug Robb, Managing Director at Communovate.

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The Workplace Silence: to talk or not to talk?

7 November 2011

Even though the workplace seems to be a major place where mental health issue begin, it is also a perfect protective factor to good mental health. Most of us spend a significant amount of our waking hours at work, and it is also a perfect place to meet new people, forms genuine relationships, feel a sense of connectedness, purpose and self-worth – all these protectors of mental health. Taking all that into consideration and the fact that suicide remains the leading cause of death for men up to age 44, perhaps a new kind of conversations need to happen at workplaces across Australia.

Read more in this guest post by Ehon Chan.

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