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Psych injury interventions are "missing the mark"

Rising workplace psychological injury rates are proof that despite increased awareness of mental health risks, employers are still "missing the mark" when it comes to prevention and management efforts, an organisational psychologist says.

Mental health literacy is much higher than it was six or seven years ago, however employers' "competency-based abilities and frameworks" to "stop a little problem from becoming a big one" are lacking, Resilia cofounder and director of psychological services Rachel Clements tells HR Daily.

"We know people don't end up unwell quickly; people go along that wellbeing continuum," from the early stages of being "a little" unwell to becoming "quite" unwell, she says. Then, when they feel like there's "no other option – no one's listening to me, nothing's been done" – they lodge a psychological injury claim...

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