The Wellness Wire
Join me, Wellness educator, Jonathan Pittam, for The Wellness Wire Podcast, where we'll be discussing all things workplace wellbeing. My show is the go-to-destination for organisations and leaders looking to reduce health-related absenteeism, presenteeism and staff turnover, through the strategy of preventative wellness. I'm a firm believer 'prevention' is the future of workplace wellbeing, so join me on my mission to re-orient businesses away from the reactive (aka 'firefighting') approach and towards the exciting direction that is preventative wellness...
The Wellness Wire
#9: The future of workplace mental health - Part 1: Away from the biomedical focus
In part one of this three part series of podcasts ( >listen to part 2<) (>listen to part 3<) I'm drawing on the World Health Organisations 2020-2030 'Mental Health Action Plan' and sharing their vision of how they want to transform the global mental health landscape, as they believe it's in desperate need of an overhaul
In their guidance document they highlight examples of good practise from around the world, some of which I share in this podcast
The focus of this episode is the W.H.O's desire to move the focus away from the biomedical model of mental health which focuses primarily on:
- Diagnosis
- Medication
- Symptom reduction
Join me as I discuss the W.H.O's new vision for mental health and what this could mean in the workplace...
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