World Mental Health Day
Motto 2024: "Mental health in the workplace"
On World Mental Health Day, the WHO is working with its partners to draw attention to the important link between mental health and work. A safe, healthy working environment can act as a protective factor for mental health.
Unhealthy conditions such as stigmatization, discrimination and risks such as harassment and other poor working conditions can pose significant risks that affect mental health, overall quality of life and thus participation or productivity at work.
With 60% of the world's population in employment, there is an urgent need for action to ensure that work prevents mental health risks and protects and supports mental health in the workplace. (Source)
Background
In 1991, the World Federation for Mental Health declared October 10 as the International Day of Action for Mental Health.
The overall goal of World Mental Health Day is to raise awareness of mental health issues around the world and mobilize efforts to support mental health.
The day provides an opportunity for all stakeholders working on mental health issues to talk about their work and what more needs to be done to make mental health care a reality for people worldwide.
Each year a new theme is chosen for the day, an overview of which can be found on the WHO website.
Action alliance
Mental Health
In 2006, the Action Alliance for Mental Health developed from the day of action. Its aim is to draw attention to the topic of mental illness with a variety of events and to end the taboo.
The "World Mental Health Day" gave rise to the "Mental Health Week". This not only ensures close networking between various local alliance partners, but also serves to raise awareness and carry out prevention work. (source)
Action week 2024: kick-off event
The kick-off event for "Mental Health Week" can be followed on October 10, 2014 from 5:30 p.m. in the livestream on the Action Alliance's YouTube channel. Registration is not necessary.
Offers of support
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Our specially trained crisis support team provides confidential support to employees after the following experiences:
- Acutely stressful events at work
- Violence, threats or a stressful treatment situation
- You need space to describe and process your feelings, impressions and worries
The crisis counselors will support you in coping with stressful situations.
You can find more information on the intranet (link can only be opened internally).
Contact:
Dr. Christian Bock
Telephone (internal): -5802
The risk assessment of mental stress is a procedure prescribed by the Occupational Health and Safety Act to assess working conditions and, where possible, to achieve improvements. This is done through anonymous surveys, workshops or observation interviews. In contrast to the "classic" risk assessment, working conditions are not assessed from the outside, but by the employees at the respective workplaces themselves. Employees and executives are involved in every phase of the risk assessment of mental stress.
Further information can be found on the intranet (link can only be opened internally).
Contact:
Dr. Christian Bock
Telephone (internal): -5802
All MHH employees have the option of notifying the employer of an overload of work. The Occupational Safety Department receives all overload reports that you send us.
Describe in the overload report what caused the overload and what hazards were involved. Reporting a short-term overload situation can already provide you with legal protection.
If the overload persists for a longer period of time, it is possible to conduct an overload procedure. In a calm setting, you can discuss what is putting a strain on your day-to-day work. In an overload procedure, solutions are discussed with your superiors that can relieve you or the team. This gives you the opportunity to concentrate on the content, while we provide a good, respectful framework. The overload procedures are also supported by HR management and the Staff Council.
After sending an overload report with a request for a procedure, there is always a preliminary meeting with us to discuss the next steps.
Further information can be found on the intranet (link can only be opened internally).
Contact:
Ms. Peggy Meier-Wiedenstriet
Telephone (internal): -19305
The chaplains at the MHH see themselves not only as discussion partners for patients and their relatives, but also for employees.
They provide guidance and support regardless of denominational affiliation, religious affiliation, orientation or nationality.
- Time for discussions
- An open ear for topics such as stress and strain in the professional and private environment
- Support in times of upheaval, phases of reorientation and crises
- Memorial services for deceased employees and team members
The chaplains are independent of the hospital system and accompany you in complete freedom and confidentiality. They are bound to secrecy in all matters.
Further information and contact details can be found on the pastoral care flyer.
The Addiction Counseling Service of Hannover Medical School supports and informs
- affected employees and staff
- superiors
- colleagues
- trainees
with questions and/or problems in dealing with alcohol, medication, illegal drugs and behavioral addictions such as excessive internet use and gambling addiction. We provide contacts to internal and external counseling facilities and further therapeutic treatments.
Further information and contact details can be found here.
As part of the holistic health program "Fit for Work and Life" (FWL ), you can participate in the following courses:
Resilience
- Methods and techniques to strengthen your own resilience
- Stress management
- Increasing well-being
- The aim is to remain physically and mentally healthy, even in the face of persistently high stress levels
Communications
- Communicating successfully
- Communications in crises and conflicts
- Conducting conversations in a targeted and solution-oriented manner
- The aim is to reflect on and optimize your own methods and techniques in conducting conversations
Values and life
- Increasing the ability to deal flexibly with difficult life situations or unpleasant experiences
- Developing value systems
- Develop strategies for dealing with internal and external blockages
- The aim is to find out what a life that you can experience as satisfying and fulfilling would look like
Progressive muscle relaxation
- Relaxation method for successful stress management
- Positive influence on the psyche through the muscles
- The aims of PME can also be to relieve tension, improve body awareness and regulate heart rate, breathing, blood pressure and metabolism
Contact person:
Claudia Tabrizi (course instructor)
Luisa Huwe (FWL coordinator)
- MHH Spirit: how do I achieve a good inner attitude for daily workloads?
- Counseling for overstress and conflicts, e.g. burnout counseling
Further information on the services and contact details of the Occupational Health Service can be found here.
The MHH's continuing education program offers courses and training on topics such as resilience, stress management, Qi Gong and yoga - as face-to-face events and eLearnings.
You can find the range of courses on the Human Resources homepage.
On the YouTube channel of the Patient University you will find expert lectures on topics such as mental health, anxiety and depression.
Tip: Enter "depression" in the channel's search field to access the relevant videos.
external
- Tel: 0800 111 0 111 or 0800 111 0 222
- Daily around the clock, free of charge, anonymous
- Mail and chat advice: www.online.telefonseelsorge.de
- Depression information hotline: 0800 334 45 33
- MO, DIE, DO 13:00-17:00; MI, FR 08:30-12:30
- Mail advice: www.deutsche-depressionshilfe.de
- Tel: 089 215 298 31
- FR 8:00-12:00
- Mail advice: www.angstselbsthilfe.de
- Tel: 116 016
- daily around the clock, free of charge, anonymous, in 18 languages
- Mail and chat advice : www.hilfetelefon.de
- daily 12:00-20:00
- Tel: 0800 22 55 530
- MO, MI, FR 09:00-14:00; DIE, DO 15:00-20:00
- Mail advice: www.hilfe-telefon-missbrauch.online
- Mail and chat advice: www.frag-nach-demenz.de
- Tel: 030 259 37 95 14
- Mon-Thu 9:00-18:00, Fri 9:00-15:00
- Mail advice: www.deutsche-alzheimer.de
- Area search: www.deutsche-depressionshilfe.de/
- Area search: www.mut-atlas.de
Mental Health Action Alliance: https: //www.seelischegesundheit.net/service/notfallkontakte/