Mental health, moral injury – and mandatory psychological assessment?

White, Stuart

doi:10.1111/anae.15447

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“…Such mandatory access and relationship-building with mental health professionals may encourage correctional workers to seek help in confidence more often in the future, possibly before they reach a critical breaking point or become too overwhelmed. Embedded psychological assessments could also serve to normalize treatment-seeking and mental health intervention (see White, 2021).…”

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Improving the Mental Health of Correctional Workers: Perspectives From the Field

Johnston

Ricciardelli

McKendy

2022

Criminal Justice and Behavior

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Researchers illuminate the mental health plight of correctional workers by demonstrating a high prevalence of mental health disorders among the group. Yet, structural barriers persist in preventing correctional staff from accessing treatment and support—barriers that may result in more prolonged and pronounced symptoms. We consider correctional staff perspectives on how mental health policies at the organizational level can foster better well-being outcomes for employees. Data are drawn from open-ended survey responses from provincial and territorial correctional employees ( N = 870) in Canada. Responses collectively highlight the need for a correctional staff mental health paradigm that reflects the sources of stress among correctional workers, including access to specialized mental health services that are easily accessible, immediately available, and comprehensive in nature. Additional aspects of the work environment were identified as venues for important change, including improvements in work and schedule structures, improved manager–staff relations, and changes to the physical environment.

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Improving the Mental Health of Correctional Workers: Perspectives From the Field

Johnston

Ricciardelli

McKendy

2022

Criminal Justice and Behavior

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“…With the pandemic this might have been excessive. Suggestions have been made for compulsory assessment of psychological well being 21. Existing ethical frameworks permit this concept through the prism of virtue ethics.…”

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Pandemic and the human factor

Szawarski

2022

Postgraduate Medical Journal

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As the staffing crisis in the UK deepens, it is time for the policy-makers and professional bodies to rethink the approach to the most vital and yet most fragile component of the healthcare system—the human beings. The austerity measures, combined with pandemic and more recently the vision of a backlog with attached unrealistic expectations of tackling it, have brought the NHS and many other healthcare systems to the brink of a crisis. It is a human factors approach, which emphasises clinician’s well-being as the core aspect of optimising performance that should become our goal. Delivery of healthcare under circumstances of physical, legal or moral threat cannot be optimal and is not sustainable. The pandemic served to highlight this quite clearly. Also, an injured, tired or burn-out healthcare professional cannot be expected to repair the system that has precipitated his or her condition. The approach to changing the culture of medicine may be multifaceted, but ultimately, we should rethink professionalism and the definition of duty of care putting emphasis on the well-being of those delivering the care as the way to assure best possible care.

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Bolin

2023

Refocusing Academic Libraries Through Learning and Discourse

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Mental health, moral injury – and mandatory psychological assessment?

Cited by 5 publications

References 36 publications

Improving the Mental Health of Correctional Workers: Perspectives From the Field

Improving the Mental Health of Correctional Workers: Perspectives From the Field

Pandemic and the human factor

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