title: Workplace mental health: developing an integrated intervention approach.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Mental health problems are prevalent and costly in working populations. Workplace interventions to address common mental health problems have evolved relatively independently along three main threads or disciplinary traditions: medicine, public health, and psychology. In this Debate piece, we argue that these three threads need to be integrated to optimise the prevention of mental health problems in working populations.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  To realise the greatest population mental health benefits, workplace mental health intervention needs to comprehensively 1) protect mental health by reducing work-related risk factors for mental health problems; 2) promote mental health by developing the positive aspects of work as well as worker strengths and positive capacities; and 3) address mental health problems among working people regardless of cause. We outline the evidence supporting such an integrated intervention approach and consider the research agenda and policy developments needed to move towards this goal, and propose the notion of integrated workplace mental health literacy.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  An integrated approach to workplace mental health combines the strengths of medicine, public health, and psychology, and has the potential to optimise both the prevention and management of mental health problems in the workplace.
authors.affiliation: Population Health Strategic Research Centre, School of Health & Social Development, Deakin University, Burwood, VIC, Australia. tony.lamontagne@deakin.edu.au.
authors.forename: Anthony D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: LaMontagne
authors.forename: Angela
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.forename: Kathryn M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Page
authors.forename: Nicola J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Reavley
authors.forename: Andrew J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Noblet
authors.forename: Allison J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Milner
authors.forename: Tessa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Keegel
authors.forename: Peter M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008603:Mental Health; D012307:Risk Factors; D040242:Risk Reduction Behavior; D017132:Workplace / Q000523:psychology*