Employee well-being outcomes from individual-level mental health interventions: Cross-sectional evidence from the United Kingdom, 2024, William J. Fle

Employee well-being outcomes from individual-level mental health interventions: Cross-sectional evidence from the United Kingdom
William J. Fleming

Initiatives that promote mental well‐being are formally recommended for all British workers, with many practices targeting change in individual workers' resources. While the existing evidence is generally positive about these interventions, disagreement is increasing because of concerns that individual‐level interventions do not engage with working conditions.

Contributing to the debate, this article uses survey data (N = 46,336 workers in 233 organisations) to compare participants and nonparticipants in a range of common individual‐level well‐being interventions, including resilience training, mindfulness and well‐being apps. Across multiple subjective well‐being indicators, participants appear no better off. Results are interpreted through the job demands–resources theory and selection bias in cross‐sectional results is interrogated.

Overall, results suggest interventions are not providing additional or appropriate resources in response to job demands.

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When this is what mental health is reduced to:

You should expect that:

Because it simply ignores reality. The mental health evidence-based medicine approach is a top-down model that doesn't bother with reality, simply tries to push the same old solutions regardless of the problem. Why they expect this to work I truly have no idea, but it has never stopped them from doing the same things over and over and over again expecting the same fake results, because they've simply always fudged the results.

This:

Is exactly the same thing as with the biopsychosocial approach to chronic illness. In countries that have gone all-in implementing it, the outcomes are the same as in countries that don't do anything. Because it does absolutely nothing, so the outcomes are equally bad.

But they still go ahead and do the same thing over and over and over again while expecting the same fake results. It has somehow worked very well for mental health practitioners for several decades by now. For everyone else? Not so much. For the companies, they can simply boast about promoting mental health and not bother with doing anything else.

This is what the evidence-based approach to mental health has become:



Now get in the booth and be merry. Or don't, just fill in the questionnaire saying so and that's good enough for them.