Mental Wellness and Recovery in the Workplace: Challenging Leadership to Redefine Organizational Culture

在社会上，大多数人试图找到一种可持续和有意义的工作形式。经历过心理健康挑战或精神疾病的人可能很难维持自己在工作场所的地位--往往不成功。支持康复的社区和工作环境如何影响个人从精神疾病中恢复之间存在着关系。需要更多地了解和理解这种互惠和适应的关系。此外，照顾患有精神疾病的人是非常困难和有压力的；通常，它变得如此包罗万象，以至于个人很难注意到他们需要充电。这项研究是萨斯喀彻温省理工学院精神病学护理和计算机研究与技术项目更新公司与加拿大精神卫生协会萨斯喀彻温省分部合作进行的。该项目调查了心理健康和职场康复之间的关系。创新及科技基金将确定支持性工作场所环境的特点；以工作为基础的教育是否对工作场所的支持性产生影响；以及家庭和照顾者所需的社会支助资源。此外，它还将为Reresh Wellness应用程序的进一步开发提供信息，该应用程序将纳入创新技术，将有精神健康问题的人与支持社区和工作场所康复的社会计划联系起来，并将创建虚拟同行支持。加拿大精神卫生协会将利用这项新技术来加强其同伴支持计划，作为参与这一研究项目的直接结果，从而获得持久的好处。该应用程序还将提供促进虚拟同行支持的能力，作为危机应对的第一步。这将允许个人或家庭成员/照顾者在留在工作场所的同时与社区中的同伴支持小组建立联系。经历过精神疾病急性发作或心理健康受到挑战的人，如果知道他们的雇主有一种支持他们的工作场所文化，他们更有可能对自己的康复更有信心。

In society, most people attempt to find a form of work that is sustainable and meaningful. People who experience a mental wellness challenge or a mental illness may struggle to maintain their position in the workplace - often unsuccessfully. There is a relationship between how a recovery-supportive community and work environment impacts an individual's recovery from mental illness. Much more needs to be known and understood about this reciprocal and adaptive relationship. In addition, caring for someone who lives with mental illness is very difficult and stressful; often, it becomes so encompassing that it is difficult for an individual to notice that they need to recharge themselves. The study is a collaboration between the Saskatchewan Polytechnic's Psychiatric Nursing and Computer Studies and Technology program, Refresh Inc., and the Canadian Mental Health Association Saskatchewan Division. The project investigates the relationship between mental wellness and recovery in the workplace. ItF will determine the characteristics of a supportive workplace environment; if work-based education has an effect supportive effect in the workplace; and the social support resources needed by families and caregivers. In addition it will inform the further development of the Refresh Wellness app, which will incorporate innovative technology to connect persons with mental wellness issues to social programs that support recovery in the community and workplace, and will also create virtual peer support. The Canadian Mental Health Association will utilize this new technology to augment its peer support program for lasting benefit as a direct result of participating in this research project. The app will also offer the capability to facilitate virtual peer support as a first step in crisis response. This will allow the individual or family member/caregiver to connect with a peer support group in the community while remaining in the workplace. Individuals who experience acute episodes of mental illness or challenges to their mental wellness are more likely to have a greater sense of confidence in their recovery if they know their employer has a workplace culture that will be supportive.