Mental Health First Aid

Peer support training in mental health at work

Summary:

Mental Health First Aid is designed to help non-clinicians support others who have, or are developing, a mental-health problem.
Nicola Godwin investigates its use as a peer-support initiative in the workplace.

IF you’re reading this article in a public space of some kind – perhaps in an office or on a busy commuter train – you can look up and be reasonably confident that for every 10 people you can see, two to three will be diagnosed with a mental-health problem.

Nicola Godwin is a freelance journalist

Author: Godwin N

Tags anxiety mental health stress

Occupational Health at Work /January (vol. 00/) pp11-16

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