1st Edition

The Routledge Companion to Mental Health at Work

Edited By Arla Day, Cary L. Cooper Copyright 2024
344 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

344 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

344 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The issue of mental health at work has become a hot topic in both the popular media and academic writings. Although job stress and mental ill-health are associated with negative outcomes for individuals, teams, and organizations, there has been some suggestion that changing the work environment and creating healthy workplaces can improve worker health. Much of the current works in the general of... Read more

Part 1. Background and History

1. Mental Health Matters: Bringing Mental Health out of the Workplace Closet

Arla Day and Cary L. Cooper

2. The History of Worksite Wellness: A Reconnaissance

Peter L. Twohig

Part 2. The Environment — Issues and Changing/Supporting the Environment

3. Turning Evidence into Action: Workforce Mental Health in the Real World

David W. Ballard and Krystal Sexton

4. Understanding and exploring the cost of poor mental health at work for organisations and society

Juliet Hassard, Louise Thomson and Holly Blake

5. Moving Beyond Accommodation: Creating an Integrated Mental Health Disability Support Framework

Eric Damecour and Kari Trost

6. Understanding the Role of Information and Communication Technology in Psychological Well-Being through the Lens of Self-Regulation

Xinyu (Judy) Hu and Larissa K. Barber

7. Moving beyond a Disease Framework: The Social Context of Burnout and Mental Health

Michael P. Leiter and Christina Maslach

Part 3. Supporting the People — Mental Health Experiences

8. Maternal Mental Health: Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders (PMADs) and the Workplace

Jennifer Dimoff, Jacquelyn Brady, Stephanie Gilbert and Roderick MacLeod

9. Moral Distress in the Workplace

Hannah M. Markham and E. Kevin Kelloway

10. Leadership Interventions to Foster Mental Health and Work Well-being

Duygu Gulseren and Zhanna Lyubykh

11. Leaders’ Mental Health: Predictors, Outcomes, and Interventions

Anika Cloutier and Julian Barling

12. Balancing performance and well-being: Motivational and resource regulation in the context of excessive availability for work

Luo Lu

13. Psychological recovery from work demands and employee mental health

Charlotte Fritz and Laura Yang

Part 4. Interpersonal Aspects of MH at work and home

14. Work-life balance and Work flexibility in the context of Mental Health at Work

Oi-ling Siu, Haobi Wang and Man Chun Chung

15. Assessing and Managing Mistreatment at Work

­ Paul Spector & Ashley Nixon

16. Organizational Justice and Mental Health

Constanze Eib and Russell Cropanzano

17. Managing Conflict at Work: Addressing the Organizational Level

­Trond Løkling, Karina Nielsen and Marit Christensen

Biography

Arla Day is a Professor in Occupational Health Psychology and Director of the CN Centre for Occupational Health & Safety at Saint Mary's University, Canada.

Cary L. Cooper is the 50th Anniversary Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health at Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK.

"So much of our lives is spent working, so much of our emotional health depends on how we experience work: the deadlines, decisions, conflicts & risks. How can the workplace balance its potential for fulfilment and harm? Day and Cooper have assembled a list of authors to trace the history of 'work stress', examine its modern manifestations and weigh up the evidence on doing better - the crucial question of "what works?." Louis Appleby, University of Manchester