Should I share or stay silent? New study shows how tackling mental health stigma at work can double employment rates

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Disclosure dilemmas stop many people with mental health problems from getting into work. A new feasibility study suggests that empowering employment specialists to talk openly about stigma and support disclosure decisions can help people find and keep jobs. Embedding these tools in practice could be key to closing the employment gap and reducing reliance on benefits.

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Beating the odds in recovery: does employment support benefit the outcomes of psychological therapy?

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Lucy Chilton and Sarah Watts summarise a case-control study looking at the effectiveness of employment support in combination with psychological therapies within NHS Talking Therapies.

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Introducing the Hope service: we need to provide practical support to men at risk of suicide

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In his debut blog, Michael J. Wilson appraises a qualitative study, which examined service users, staff and stakeholder perspectives on a service helping to prevent suicide in men who are going through a crisis.

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If mental illness excludes us from the labour market, how can we make employment work for all?

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Ian Cummins reviews a Danish population-based cohort study, which finds that all mental health disorders were associated with shorter working life.

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