Mental health intervention at the workplace: A psychosocial care model

Abstract

There are researches highlighting the importance of mental health of employees, which benefit the workplace and personal life. It is identified that the employee effectiveness depends on the mental health and well-being of the employees, and it contributes to the organizational productivity. However, there is a dearth of effective models of mental health interventions implemented and documented for organizations to follow and research on. This reflective paper based on a theoretical perspective discusses the Psychosocial Intervention Model developed by Mental Health Assistance Centre at Rajagiri College of Social Sciences for the Federal Bank Employees as part of the Employee Assistance Programme in the bank. This paper includes the basic processes, modalities, framework and two cases of intervention conducted as part of employee mental health well-being. This collaborative model progresses through various stages with different intervention strategies of Clinical Social Work, aligned to the mental health well-being of employees at the workplace. The major mental health issues of the employees identified are discussed with the outcome of the interventions.

Keywords

• mental health of employees
• psychosocial intervention in workplace
• employee assistance
• workplace intervention
• employee mental health intervention model