Mental Health Training

The direct cost of mental health to your business can affect how your staff are able to perform as a team and manage their tasks effectively.

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1. Why care about mental health in the workplace?

Workplace can be strong contributor to mental wellbeing, giving people opportunity to feel productive and achieve their potential. It can provide:

Structure and routine
Social contact
Participating in collective efforts
A sense of purpose
Social and personal identity
Regular activity

However, the workplace can also be a stressful environment that can contribute to the rise of mental health problems

A large percentage of the world’s population spends one-third of their adult life at work

With mental illness as prevalent as it is, employers are likely to encounter mental illness in the workplace in some way

2. The cost of mental illness

According to an article published by the Parliamentary Monitoring Group in 2013:

Survey of mental disorders in SA showed lost earnings among adults with severe mental illness during previous 12 months amounted to R28.8 billion

This outweighs direct spending on mental health care for adults (of approximately R472 million)

It costs South Africa more to not treat mental illness than to treat it

3. Poor mental health and its impact

WHO – depression and anxiety disorders cost global economy US$1 trillion each year (Mental in the Workplace, WHO, May 2019)

Employee absenteeism costs SA economy R12 – R16 billion per year (largely attributed to workplace stress, burnout and ill health) (Health24, 26 April 2016)

Up to 53% of SA’s working population not taking annual leave, leading to increased stress and burnout (HR Pulse, 08 December 2014)

SAFMH training programmes

Our training packages:

are designed around ongoing needs analyses and practical experiences in terms of mental health needs in the workplace

address a variety of mental health challenges in the workplace

help organisations raise mental health awareness in their working environments

help organisations adapt and promote good mental wellbeing for their employees

help employers address the impact and the cost of mental health in their workplace

highlight how a negative work environment and unmanaged mental health can impact on productivity

help managers and employees understand mental health, stress, disability, stigma and discrimination and reasonable accommodation

provide an insight on looking after people’s mental health and how to promote mental wellbeing

Through our training packages, employers:

will learn how unmanaged mental health can impact on the organisation

will become more knowledgeable about mental illnesses and the role of stigma and discrimination in the workplace

will become more knowledgeable about reasonable accommodation measures

will develop an understanding of disclosure vs non-disclosure of mental illness

will develop an understanding on how to contribute to mental wellbeing within the organisation

Offerings

Presentations

Standard 1-hour presentations
Customised presentation (at additional costs)

Workshops

Half day workshops (4 hours)
Full day workshops (8 hours)
Customised workshops (at additional costs)

Exhibitions

Half day exhibitions (4 hours)
Full day exhibitions (8 hours)

Training packages offered by SAFMH

Our mental health – a general overview package includes topics such as

Stigma and discrimination

Mental health in the workplace

Overview of common types of mental illness found in the workplace (incl. depression, anxiety, the link to stress)

Overview of mental wellbeing

Our mental health and stress package includes topics such as

Defining stress

Factors that influence and determine stress

Organisational stress

Managing stress

Our mental illness – a detailed overview package includes topics such as

Overview of mental health

Detailing types of mental illnesses in the workplace (incl. depression, anxiety, bipolar)

Treatment and managing mental illnesses

Stigma and discrimination

Our employment and mental health package includes topics such as

Psychosocial disabilities in the workplace

Employing persons with psychosocial disabilities

Reasonable accommodation

Diversity in the workplace

Our disability and the workplace package includes topics such as

Defining disability

Disability policy and legislation

The different models of disability

Inclusive workplaces

Our mental wellbeing package includes topics such as

Defining mental wellbeing

Stress and mental wellbeing

Factors affecting mental wellbeing

Achieving good mental wellbeing

Our substance abuse and mental health package includes topics such as

Defining substance use disorder

Mental health and substance abuse

Warning signs

Tips for recovery

Our men and mental health package includes topics such as

General overview of mental health and men

A South African perspective

Men, mental health and the workplace

Managing mental wellbeing

Our women and mental health package includes topics such as

Vulnerability factors in women

Mental health and gender

Mental illnesses prevalent in women

Factors affecting women and mental health

Our youth and mental health package includes topics such as

General overview of youth and mental health

Risk factors

Factors that affect the mental health of young people

Youth, mental health and educational settings

SAFMH training programmes

Mental health in the workplace… The story so far

1 in 4 people will experience mental illness in their lifetime (WHO, 2001) and as much as 20% of people in the workplace have a mental illness at any given time. There is a lot of stigma and misinformation about mental health, which creates a barrier for individuals to seek help, seek training interventions and support

Whilst SAFMH recognises the importance of considering the unique challenges, needs and varying contextual realities of different organisations, and to be adaptable to these factors, we place a high value on providing targeted and consistent information that speaks to as wide a range of audiences as possible. With our training packages, SAFMH is always seeking opportunities venture into new territory and communities to impact change and bring awareness to mental health. Over the past two years, through direct service delivery, partnerships and collaborations, we have provided trainings, exhibitions, presentations, workshops and taster sessions to a variety of corporates, government entities, public and private schools, institutions of higher learning and religious organisations.

Mental Health Training

The direct cost of mental health to your business can affect how your staff are able to perform as a team and manage their tasks effectively.