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。经历过精神健康挑战或精神疾病的人可能会努力保持他们在工作场所的地位——通常是不成功的。支持康复的社区和工作环境如何影响个人从精神疾病中康复之间存在关系。关于这种相互适应的关系，我们还需要了解和理解更多。此外，照顾患有精神疾病的人是非常困难和有压力的；通常情况下，它变得如此包罗万象，以至于一个人很难注意到他们需要给自己充电。这项研究是由萨斯喀彻温省理工学院的精神病学护理和计算机研究与技术项目、Refresh公司和加拿大心理健康协会萨斯喀彻温省分部合作进行的。该项目调查了工作场所心理健康和康复之间的关系。ItF将确定支持性工作环境的特征；如果以工作为基础的教育在工作场所有支持作用；以及家庭和照顾者所需的社会支持资源。此外，它还将为“刷新健康”应用程序的进一步开发提供信息，该应用程序将采用创新技术，将有心理健康问题的人与支持社区和工作场所康复的社会项目联系起来，并将创建虚拟同伴支持。加拿大心理健康协会将利用这项新技术来扩大其同伴支持计划，作为参与这项研究项目的直接结果，使其持久受益。作为应对危机的第一步，这款应用还将提供虚拟同伴支持。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联系。患有严重精神疾病或精神健康面临挑战的人，如果知道雇主有支持他们的职场文化，他们就更有可能对自己的康复充满信心。

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.