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mental health guru can help your organisation to appropriately manage mental health issues and reduce associated productivity losses
Brief training for all staff
Information and how to get help
Interactive myth busting
Practical advice
Responsibilities of supervisor
Approximately 1 in 5 people in the UK, Canada, USA and Australia will experience a mental health problem every year.
Mental illness creates high costs for employers due to absenteeism, presenteeism, compensation claims and turnover.
Employers have legal obligations in relation to the management of mental illness in the workplace.
Decreasing stigma
Increasing knowledge
Improving help-seeking
Improving management of mental health problems within the workplace.
mental health guru delivers brief online training for workplaces, in two modules which are completed in order. These include information, interactive exercises, videos and quizzes with personalised feedback.
Negative attitudes to mental disorders can prevent people from seeking appropriate help and can lead to worse outcomes. Stigma can also lead to mismanagement of issues within the workplace.
mental health guru busts common myths about depression and anxiety, and educates users so that workplace issues can be managed appropriately.
mental health guru has been evaluated in a randomised controlled trial, which showed use of the program improved employee knowledge and decreased employee stigma about depression and anxiety, and these effects were sustained after six months.
Griffiths, K.M., Bennett, K., Walker, J., Goldsmid S., Bennett, A. Effectiveness of MH-Guru, a brief online mental health program for the workplace: A randomised controlled trial. Internet Interventions 2016; 6: 29-39.
Mental Health Guru (MH-Guru) is an online training program designed for use by all employees within a workplace. The program has a depression module and an anxiety module. MH-Guru is designed to improve employee awareness and encourage help seeking for these and other mental health issues.
Each module takes approximately 20 minutes to complete, and are comprised of:
After completing the program, staff should have:
MH-Guru is intended for all employees within an organisation, from the most senior managers to junior and new staff.
Yes. A pilot study of the MH-Guru program within an Australian organisation showed that employees who accessed MH-Guru improved their knowledge, exhibited less stigma, and increased their intentions to seek help for depression and anxiety. These outcomes are likely to translate into less suffering for the employee, and increased productivity and reduced absenteeism.
More recently these findings have been confirmed in a ‘gold standard’ randomised controlled trial of the program in a different Australian organisation. You can access the research paper here: KM Griffiths, et al. Effectiveness of MH-Guru, a brief online mental health program for the workplace: A randomised controlled trial. Internet Interventions 2016; 6: 29-39.
MH-Guru was originally developed and evaluated over four years by researchers at the Australian National University. The research and development team was led by Professor Kathy Griffiths, an internationally recognised leader in e-mental health and stigma research.
The development and delivery of MH-Guru is now undertaken by e-hub Health – an ANU spin-off company managed by the senior members of the original team. e-hub Health is committed to the ongoing development of quality resources which make a measurable impact in the wellbeing of users.
Yes. e-hub Health commissioned me2 accessibility to conduct an Accessibility Audit on the MH-Guru website. On 7 February 2020 me2 accessibility certified that the MH-Guru website satisfied all Level A and AA Success Criteria of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 specification.
