CHAPTER 5

Mental and Behavioral Health

Organizations are increasingly recognizing the importance of supporting not just physical health, but mental and behavioral health as well. By emphasizing these aspects of health, not only can services be made available to struggling people, but issues that often snowball into larger problems are caught early. Ideally, employees have access to the resources and services they need to manage through difficulties in life and rebound before declining into depression, severe anxiety, substance abuse, or other unhealthy coping behaviors.

It’s clear that comorbidity between mental and physical health issues is high, and while the direction of causality isn’t always clear, better mental health improves physical ...

Get Uniquely Great now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.