Back on Track: Return to work toolkit Simon Gilbody, Dean McMillan and Isabel Berwick
Event details
Long-term sickness absence results in significant costs to individuals, their employers and society at large.
Simon Gilbody, founder of the Behavioural Therapeutics Lab at the University of York, and clinical psychologist Dean McMillan discuss a toolkit to help those experiencing long-term sickness absence back into work. From planning ahead to introduce positive reinforcement and address avoidance, to the need for employers to critically examine the organisation’s environment and culture, they'll reveal what works and what is cost effective in tackling depression and anxiety.
Join Simon and Dean, leaders in the field of mental health interventions, in conversation with journalist Isabel Berwick, who leads the Financial Times' Working It brand.
This event will take place live on Zoom Webinar. You will receive a link to join a couple of days before the event and a reminder an hour before. During the event, you can ask questions via a Q&A function, but audience cameras and microphones will remain muted throughout.
Find out more about the Behavioural Therapeutics Lab at the University of York.
About the speakers
Isabel Berwick leads the Financial Times' Working It brand, covering the workplace, leadership and the future of work, across audio, video and a weekly newsletter. She is author of The Future-Proof Career which will be published in paperback later this year.
Simon Gilbody is a Professor of Psychological Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of York and the Hull York Medical School. Simon is a practicing NHS psychiatrist and cognitive behavioural therapist. Unusually he is also a Professor of Epidemiology and is among the top 1% of most highly cited scientists in the world. During the pandemic his team led the largest ever trial to tackle loneliness at scale. The results are useful in thinking how we can prevent loneliness in the post-pandemic workplace.
Dean McMillan is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of York. He is interested in developing and evaluating psychological interventions that can be delivered at scale for common mental health problems. He has worked on a number of randomised trials of such interventions, including those focusing on depression, anxiety and loneliness.
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