Dealing With Depression: Antidepressant Skills for Teens

  Dealing with Depression is a workbook for teens that explains depression and teaches three main antidepressant skills you can use to help overcome or prevent it. The skills are presented in a step-by-step way so that you may learn them easily and apply them to your life. Sometimes these antidepressant skills can be used on their own, when the mood problem isn\u27t too severe, and sometimes they have to be used along with treatments prescribed by professionals. Either way, practicing these antidepressant skills will help you deal more effectively with low mood and depression

Depression & Work Function: Bridging the Gap Between Mental Health Care & the Workplace

Depression is rapidly emerging as both a public health and occupational health challenge. This document reviews many of the current clinical and workplace issues associated with this complex disorder and provides a framework for an integrated and comprehensive approach to managing depression in the workplace. In an effort to catalyze action, the report strives to maintain a practical perspective that will appeal to the many stakeholders who must collaborate to create a psychologically healthy workplace. This paper examines clinical and occupational best practices, recommends a systematic array of potential interventions, and identifies numerous resources to assist organizations to develop a customized response that meets their unique needs

Psychological Health and Safety: An Action Guide for Employers

As the burden of workplace mental health problems on the public and private sectors in Canada increases, the management of workplace mental health issues will be of increasing importance. Yet, strategies for the assessment, prevention and treatment of mental health problems in the workplace are underdeveloped and underused. In order to help remedy this the Workforce Advisory Committee of the Mental Health Commission of Canada  asked CARMHA to examine the relevant scientific and ‘grey’ literature on approaches to improving the mental health of employees and create practical resource for employers. The aim of Psychological Health and Safety: An Action Guide for Employers, is to help employers to create a psychologically healthy workplace, one that supports the psychological health of employees in a manner that also furthers the goals of the organization. Promoting psychological health for the entire workforce is an excellent strategy for reducing the risk of psychological harm. A psychologically healthy workplace helps keep workers safe, engaged and productive. The Guide is based on a comprehensive implementation model, the P6 Framework, that describes the change process in terms of six successive components: Policy, Planning, Promotion, Prevention, Process and Persistence. For each component of the P6 Framework, three practical actions are provided. These actions are consistent with research evidence and represent a promising practice in the field of psychological health and safety. Each action also includes an explanation of why it matters, how to implement it and access to supportive tools that are web-based, primarily Canadian and available at no or minimal cost. The guide also includes stories that illustrate how workplaces have tackled psychological health and safety. The Guide is available in French and English and is consistent with, and complementary to, the National Standard of Canada for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace

Laughter and humor therapy in dialysis

Laughter and humor therapy have been used in health care to achieve physiological and psychological health-related benefits. The application of these therapies to the dialysis context remains unclear. This paper reviews the evidence related to laughter and humor therapy as a medical therapy relevant to the dialysis patient population. Studies from other groups such as children, the elderly, and persons with mental health, cancer, and other chronic conditions are included to inform potential applications of laughter therapy to the dialysis population. Therapeutic interventions could range from humorous videos, stories, laughter clowns through to raucous simulated laughter and Laughter Yoga. The effect of laughter and humor on depression, anxiety, pain, immunity, fatigue, sleep quality, respiratory function and blood glucose may have applications to the dialysis context and require further research

Planning, Implementing and Evaluating Successful Workplace Interventions for Psychologically Healthy and Productive Workplaces : A Pattern Analysis of 57 Systematic Reviews

Mental health in the workplace is a key topic in British Columbia, across Canada and internationally with a growing focus on the importance of creating and sustaining safe, healthy, productive and inclusive workplaces. This stakeholder-centred best evidence-based synthesis of systematic reviews searched Medline, Embase, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness, CINAHL, PsycINFO, TRIP, REHABDATA (NARIC), REHAB+ (McMaster), and Health-evidence.ca (McMaster) published between January 1, 2000 and February 2016 to identify interventions that addressed: mental health symptomatology (depression, anxiety, PTSD, etc.), job control, job demands, social support, stress management, and wellness (health promotion). Following deduplication 5,646 citations were reviewed by two or more independent reviewers. Following title and abstract review, 168 full text articles were reviewed against inclusion/exclusion criteria, resulting in 57 systematic reviews being included. Based on findings and trend analysis, the academic-stakeholder team proposed a framework for planning, implementing and evaluating interventions to mitigate psychosocial hazards in the workplace. Due to low quality evidence and experimental pre and post design of many studies recommendations should be considered with some caution noting the need for more rigorous monitoring of their implementation