Mental Illness in the Workplace, for Supervisors and Managers

Session Content:

• Common mental illnesses, their signs, symptoms and functional impact in the workplace.
• Responding to mental health issues in the workplace:
• Roles and responsibilities,
• Strategies to approach and address staff with mental health issues,
• Resources to assist Managers,
• Reasonable workplace accommodations for mental illness.

Learning Objectives

• Participants will have increased awareness and understanding of the common mental illnesses of anxiety, depression and psychosis.
• For each of these illnesses, participants will be able to recognise the symptoms and functional impact in the workplace.
• Participants will be aware of their roles and responsibilities when responding to mental health issues in the workplace.
• Participants will learn strategies to approach and address staff with mental health issues.
• Participants will learn about resources available to assist Managers and Supervisors to support employees with mental illness.
• Participants will learn about how to develop reasonable workplace accommodations for mental illness.

This one day program is suited to Managers and Supervisors.
We also have a half day seminar which is suitable as an awareness raising program for all staff.
These sessions are suitable for groups of up to 18 participants.

Product Packages

We have a number of package options for our courses, to enable us to give you the level of ongoing support that you may require.

Find out more here.

Want a course customised specifically for your group?

We are able to develop a program for your group's next function, whether it is an intimate lunch and learn or your national conference.

To book this program, find out more about it, or discuss how this program can be customised for your group, contact us.