An Employee Assistance Programme improves Workplace Mental Health

With the Mental Health Foundation concluding that workplaces have a responsibility to improve wellbeing, organisations must find effective ways to provide the necessary duty of care, in order to prevent the onset of mental health problems before they occur and support good mental health for all. One such way is through an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), a long-established workplace intervention tool that can help employees with personal or work-related problems – and more specifically, offer the different preventative approaches required towards improving workplace mental health.

Gone are the days when an Employee Assistance Programme was simply a helpline stuck to the notice board with slightly negative connotations. Now it’s an active and vibrant support system that provides a wide array of information, advice, counselling and services for health and wellbeing.