1. Accommodation Part II: Mental Health and Addiction 3:00 4:00 pm Dec 7th, 2010Infonex951 Whitehorse By Chris Hylton, MA CG Hylton & Associates Inc.800 449-5866[email_address]

2. Agenda

Defining mental health and mental disability

Identifying problems with addiction: know the early warning signs

Psychological disability management process: identification, assessment, treatment

K ey indicators of substance abuse

EAP,D&A Testing

Guarding Minds

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Do you have any workplace issues we can try and solve for you in this session?

4. What is Mental Health?

World Health Organizationdefines mental health as "a state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to his or her community

5. What is Mental Health?

People learning and be able to cope with:

• Stress

• Changes in life and the workplace

• Demands in the workplace

• Home life

• Work life

6. Freud Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness http://www.freud.org.uk/ 7. and you wonder why we work?

No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as the emphasis on work; for his

work at least gives him a secure place

in a portion of reality ,

in the human community

8. But on the other hand 9. Therein we have one of the fundamental paradoxes we face today: Work is good for your mental health and work can make you crazy Out of the Shadows at Last: Transforming Mental Health, Mental Illness and Addiction Services in Canada (2006),Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology, Honourable Michael J. L. Kirby, Chair 10. Why does this matter toCanadian employers? Making the case 11. 12. Stress in the Workplace - 3 in 10 at risk SectorSerious Concerns Significant Concerns Total % Reporting Risk Manufacturing 5% 33% 38% Public Administration3% 29% 32% Health Care and Social Assistance4% 28% 32% Retail Trade 4% 24% 28% Finance and Insurance 2% 22% 24% 13. Mental Health Overlapped by Addictions

25% of adults in a year have anxiety, phobias, panic attacks, depression, bipolar/manic depression, OCD, ADHD, schizophrenia, or suicide, with half having multiple MH conditions at same time

45% of mental health cases have medical conditions pain, heart disease, COPD, diabetes, asthma, hypertension, cancer, sleep problems

1 in 3 mental health cases also have substance or other addiction problems at the same time

14. Abusers in Past Year as Percentage of Adults (Canada)

20 19

15 142

Alcohol Tobacco Medications MarijuanaIllicit Drugs

Source: Attridge & Wallace (2009), MacMillan et al. (2009)

15. Behavioural Addictions Increasing Addiction Rate in Adult Population Historical Trend Gambling 5% problem; 2% pathological Increasing Sex 3% to 6% Increasing Food / Eating 5% women,