In this chapter, we first present two background premises:(a) there is a high prevalence of
mental health problems and disorders in the working population, and (b) working conditions
are important and modifiable risk and protective factors for these problems. Workplace
interventions to address common mental health problems have evolved relatively
independently along three main threads or disciplinary traditions: medicine, public health,
and psychology. The remainder of the chapter presents in detail our proposition that …

An integrated approach to workplace mental health encompasses three main areas of
activity:(i) protecting mental health by reducing work-related and other risk factors for mental
health problems,(ii) promoting mental health by developing the positive aspects of work as
well as worker strengths and positive capacities, and (iii) responding to mental health
problems as they manifest at work regardless of cause (work-related or otherwise). This
represents an effort to distil what is a complex issue warranting a correspondingly complex …