Mental health and Psychosocial Counselling Services in the workplace

To equip social welfare personnel with the skills to identify, support, and manage initial psychological crises among workers, using CBT and SFT principles.
To effectively decrease absenteeism and turnover rates among workers by eliminating organizational factors that contribute to poor mental health.
To improve the productivity of the business by providing better emotional support to workers after critical incidents.
To minimize the disability of workers by ensuring that mental health problems are recognized at early stages and effective treatment is available.
To develop a culture of trust, support, and mutual respect in the workplace.

Inception Phase: Commitment from top management and conduct mental health services need assessment

– Kick-off at factory

– Conduct need assessment

– Identify and train key staff to be focal points for mental health and counseling services

Implementation phase: Develop SOPs and capacity building

– Facilitate workshops to draft mental health standard operating procedures

– Capacity development training for mental health focals and social workers

– Mental health awareness

– Workshops on defining responsibilties matrix (Focal points, HR, counselors, medical staff)

Implementation phase: Addressing mental health and counseling services and Psychosocial Support

– Introduction to Mental Health, Basic counseling skills, and introduction to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Systemic Family Therapy (SFT)

– Skill Development, Applied Skills, Family counseling

– Group therapy, trauma management, substance dependency

– Crisis Intervention & Supervised Practice

– Evaluation & Continuous Learning

– Supervision & Ongoing Support