Being on PAR: Outcomes of a Pilot Trial to Improve Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace With the Promoting Adult Resilience (PAR) Program

Prudence M Millear; P Liossis; I M Shochet; H Biggs; M Donald

doi:10.1375/bech.25.4.215

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Being on PAR: Outcomes of a Pilot Trial to Improve Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace With the Promoting Adult Resilience (PAR) Program

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Being on PAR: Outcomes of a Pilot Trial to Improve Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace With the Promoting Adult Resilience (PAR) Program

Prudence M Millear, P Liossis, I M Shochet, H Biggs and M Donald

Behaviour Change, Vol.25(4), pp.215-228

2008

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1375/bech.25.4.215

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Abstract

CBT

intervention

self-efficacy

depression

stress

work-life

There is an urgent need to find strategies to promote positive mental health in the workplace. The current study presents outcomes of a pilot trial of the Promoting Adult Resilience (PAR) program, an innovative mental health promotion program, which is conducted in the workplace over 11 weekly sessions. The PAR program is a strengths-based resilience-building program that integrates interpersonal and cognitive-behaviour therapy (CBT) perspectives. Pre-, post- and follow-up measures on 20 PAR participants from a resource-sector company were compared with a non-intervention-matched comparison group. At follow-up, the PAR group had maintained significant post-test improvements in coping self-efficacy and lower levels of stress and depression, and reported greater work-life fit than the comparison group. The program appeared to be ecologically valid and treatment integrity was maintained. Process evaluations of PAR program showed that skills were rated highly and widely used in everyday life at both post and follow-up measurement times.

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Title: Being on PAR: Outcomes of a Pilot Trial to Improve Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace With the Promoting Adult Resilience (PAR) Program
Authors: Prudence M Millear (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
P Liossis (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
I M Shochet (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
H Biggs (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
M Donald (Author) - University of Queensland
Publication details: Behaviour Change, Vol.25(4), pp.215-228
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date published: 2008
DOI: 10.1375/bech.25.4.215
ISSN: 0813-4839
Organisation Unit: School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Engage Research Lab; School of Health - Psychology; School of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Legacy
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99449534602621
Output Type: Journal article

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