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Organizational Workplace Mental Health: An Emerging Role for Occupational Therapy.
- Source :
- Occupational Therapy in Mental Health; Jul-Sep2021, Vol. 37 Issue 3, p240-263, 24p
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- The purpose of this paper is threefold: firstly, to provide a brief overview of current practice in workplace mental health and introduce an emerging role for occupational therapy in this field (i.e., practicing at the organizational level where "clients" are workplaces or organizations, and not individual workers); secondly, to present the findings from a small qualitative study which describes this emerging role from the perspectives of occupational therapists who have worked in this area; and thirdly, to provide suggestions for future work which could advance this emerging role for occupational therapy world-wide. Previous research suggests that there is an increasing interest among employers to address workplace mental health through organizational initiatives and that occupational therapists are beginning to consult on the topic. Occupational therapists in our small qualitative study described their role in organizational workplace mental health as one which involves adopting a business lens, practicing in an organization-centred manner, and focusing on population health promotion. Suggestions for future work to advance this emerging role include identifying the fundamental elements of the business lens, investigating models and frameworks to guide organization-centred practice, evaluating the short-, medium-, and long-term outcomes of interventions, exploring the fit between an occupational perspective and workplace mental health, and examining the impact of COVID-19 on current practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- WORK environment
OCCUPATIONAL roles
WELL-being
HUMAN research subjects
ATTITUDES of medical personnel
RESEARCH methodology
MENTAL health
INTERVIEWING
OCCUPATIONAL therapy
QUALITATIVE research
INFORMED consent (Medical law)
JUDGMENT sampling
STATISTICAL sampling
THEMATIC analysis
OCCUPATIONAL therapists
HEALTH promotion
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0164212X
- Volume :
- 37
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Occupational Therapy in Mental Health
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 152096758
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/0164212X.2021.1908925