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Helping Employees With Complex Mental Health Needs: A Manager’s Guide

Anyone can develop a complex mental health condition or experience worsening symptoms of an existing disorder, including your most valued employees. Discover how to support these individuals, reduce health care costs, and build a resilient workforce.

Complex mental health challenges like major depression, bipolar disorder, and substance abuse disorders affect not just employees who are valuable members of an organization, but their employers, too. Without meaningful support, affected employees may miss work, function at a lower level, or leave the organization. Managers are uniquely positioned to see where there may be signs of complex mental health challenges and direct employees to the right clinical support. 

In this guide, you’ll learn:

  • Common hurdles faced by individuals with complex mental health needs
  • How to identify employees who may be struggling
  • How to connect employees with evidence-based mental health resources