Empowering people with mental illness in workplace settings

Nathalie Oexle, Lindsay Sheehan, Nicolas Rüsch

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Abstract

Mental illness stigma impedes the professional lives of people with mental illness by complicating the working routines of those who are employed, contributing to contract termination and preventing re-employment. Therefore, stigmatizing attitudes among employers and colleagues have been recognized as important aspects to improve employment as well as workplace participation of people with mental illness. However, in addition to such public stigma, self-stigma among employees with mental illness can introduce additional distress contributing to both presenteeism and absenteeism from work. This leads to financial difficulties, reduced well-being and increased psychological distress among employees with mental illness (3) as well as to economic loss for employers.
LanguageEnglish
Pages494-495
Number of pages2
JournalPsychiatric Services
Volume69
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Apr 2018
Externally publishedYes

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Keywords

  • mental health
  • mental ill health
  • public stigma
  • self stigma

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Oexle, Nathalie ; Sheehan, Lindsay ; Rüsch, Nicolas . / Empowering people with mental illness in workplace settings. In: Psychiatric Services. 2018 ; Vol. 69, No. 4. pp. 494-495.
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Oexle, N, Sheehan, L & Rüsch, N 2018, 'Empowering people with mental illness in workplace settings' Psychiatric Services, vol. 69, no. 4, pp. 494-495. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201700501

Empowering people with mental illness in workplace settings. / Oexle, Nathalie ; Sheehan, Lindsay ; Rüsch, Nicolas .

In: Psychiatric Services, Vol. 69, No. 4, 01.04.2018, p. 494-495.

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Oexle N, Sheehan L, Rüsch N. Empowering people with mental illness in workplace settings. Psychiatric Services. 2018 Apr 1;69(4):494-495. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201700501

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