Guidance Notes and Best Practice Guides
Acas: If you are a manager overseeing a team, or a colleague concerned for your co-workers, how can you approach the difficult issue of mental health? Acas, the employment relations service, outlines their advice on how to spot and deal with mental health problems at work.
The advice coincides with Depression Awareness Week (21 - 26 April 2008) which is focusing on employment this year.
Press release ~ Acas - Health, work & wellbeing ~ Mental Health, The Last Workplace Taboo ~ Depression Alliance – Depression Awareness Week ~ NHS Careers - Depression Awareness ~ Advice leaflet – Stress at work ~ Depression in the workplace ~ Stress at work is a risk factor for depression ~ BBC News - Depression 'top sick leave cause'
Newswire – GSR: A new on-line ‘Rapid Evidence Assessment Toolkit’, published by the Government Social Research Unit, will help government social researchers provide timely responses to policy questions. An increasingly useful methodology, Rapid Evidence Assessments (REAs) can provide quick summaries of what is already known about a policy or practice.
Although it uses systematic review methods to search & appraise literature and other sources of information, REAs differ from systematic reviews in that the extent of the search is guided by time & resource constraints.
Developed & written by GSR members and the Institute of Education’s EEPI-Centre (Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating Centre), the Toolkit covers themes including:
Developed & written by GSR members and the Institute of Education’s EEPI-Centre (Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating Centre), the Toolkit covers themes including:
* when to use REAs
* planning
* carrying out & commissioning REAs, and
* communicating findings
ScotGov: Increased awareness of childhood sexual abuse, and better support for adult survivors, should now be available, thanks to a new booklet. Yes You Can! Working with Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse is designed to help health professionals and those working in the care and voluntary sectors to feel more confident in applying best practice to support survivors of abuse.
As well as forming part of the Scottish Government's overall approach to supporting mental wellbeing, the booklet also ties in with SurvivorScotland, the National Strategy for Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse.
