Auseinet Publications

Mental Health and Work: Issues and Perspectives

Lou Morrow, Irene Verins, Eileen Willis

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Entire book (~ 2,000 kb)


Introduction & Contents (~ 178 kb)


Foreword
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Contents
Introduction
Lou Morrow, Eileen Willis, Irene Verins


Section 1 - The context (~ 232 kb)


Section introduction
Eileen Willis

Mental health: overemployment, underemployment, unemployment and healthy jobs
Maureen F. Dollard and Anthony H. Winefield

Dear Director
Peter Waterhouse


Section 2 - Work and identity (~ 620 kb)


Section introduction
Eileen Willis

Normalising workplace change through contemporary career discourse
Suzette Dyer and Maria Humphries

Mental health promotion and work: Rumbalara community's roundtable discussion 2002
Rosemary Hoban

Working women's health
Thea O'Connor

Working for Ages: active strategies for a productive workforce project
Bernadette Fallon

Youth employment, psychosocial health and the importance of person/environment fit: a case study of two Scottish rural towns
Stephen Pavis, Stephen Platt and Gill Hubbard

Working towards retirement: promoting positive mental health among men in pre-retirement years
Troy Speirs and Martyn Wilson

Challenges for women combining caring work with employment
Alison Rosser


Section 3 - Work and safety (~ 241 kb)


Section introduction
Lou Morrow

Mental health and workplace bullying: the role of power, professions and 'on the job' training
Lyn Turney

The impact of workplace violence on third party victims: a mental health perspective
Charmaine Hockley

Together we do better: marketing meets mental health promotion and work
Melissa Corkum

Consumer perspective employment in the psychiatric service system: a Victorian view on safety issues
Cath Roper


Section 4 - Work and emotions (~ 356 kb)


Section introduction
Eileen Willis

Blue Roses of Collingwood
Peter Waterhouse

Job-related affective wellbeing and intrinsic job satisfaction related to managers’ performance
Peter Hosie, Nick Forster and Peter Sevastos

Community care: creating efficiencies and raising concerns
Sue Stack

Regulation of emotions in the helping professions: nature, antecedents and consequences
Vanda Lucia Zammuner, Lorella Lotto and Cristina Galli

Work in the trenches: fear and anxiety in the workplace - an exploration
Monica Leon


Section 5 - Work: people, places and processes (~ 540 kb)


Section Introduction
Irene Verins

The Press Operator
Peter Waterhouse

Using the Internet to empower individuals and organisations to combat workplace stress
John Shephard

beyondblue - The National Depression Initiative: preventing depression in the workplace
Karen Field, Nicole Highet and Elly Robinson

More than a hairdresser
Trevor Waring

Mentally healthy workplaces - a living toolkit
Stephen McKernon, Ruth Allen and Elisabeth Money

Promoting mental health in nurses through clinical supervision
Daniel Nicholls and Bee Mitchell-Dawson

The Employee Health Committee - promoting holistic workplace health
Shandell Blythe, Carolyn Ellis, Loretta Foster, Frank Johnson, Paula Mobach and Tanya Paech

Developing a mental wellness program in an aged care facility: a trial project
Leanne Luxford and James Nichol

Staff wellbeing - a key ingredient for organisations promoting mental health
Anne Boscutti

The Body Shop: bringing meaning to work
Barrie Thomas and John Murphy


Index - List of tables and figures (~ 66 kb)


Table 5.1 Expectation of life from birth 1920 - 2051

Table 6.1 Numbers employed in each sector in 1995

Table 6.2 Household tenure and amenities 1991

Table 6.3 18–24 year-olds unemployed and claiming benefit in 1998

Figure 13. 1 A partial model of managers' affective wellbeing, intrinsic job satisfaction and performance

Table 15.1 Means of, and significant correlations between, main subjective dependent variables

Table 15.2 Effects of independent variables on emotional labour, and on other variables

Figure 18.1 Revised spectrum of interventions for mental health problems

Figure 18.2 Model for evaluating impact of mental health literacy