WORK PLACEMENT ASSIGNMENT 17 17 WORK PLACEMENT ASSIGNMENT Name of the University Author Name

Running head: WORK PLACEMENT ASSIGNMENT
THE WORK PLACEMENT ASSIGNMENT
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author note

WORK PLACEMENT ASSIGNMENT1
Table of Contents
Task 1...................................................................................................................................2
Part A...............................................................................................................................2
1. Description...............................................................................................................2
2. Research information...............................................................................................2
3. Program objectives..................................................................................................3
Part B...............................................................................................................................4
1...................................................................................................................................4
2...................................................................................................................................4
3...................................................................................................................................4
4...................................................................................................................................5
Part C...............................................................................................................................5
Part D...............................................................................................................................5
Task 2...................................................................................................................................6
Part A...............................................................................................................................6
Part B...............................................................................................................................6
Part C...............................................................................................................................7
Part D...............................................................................................................................7
Part E...............................................................................................................................8

WORK PLACEMENT ASSIGNMENT2
Part F................................................................................................................................8
Task 3...................................................................................................................................9
Part B.........................................................................................................................10
Task 4.................................................................................................................................11
References..........................................................................................................................14

WORK PLACEMENT ASSIGNMENT3
Task 1
Part A
1. Description
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (2018), more than 45% Australians
agreed to the fact that they suffered from mental illness at some time point of their career. This
assignment will be discussing Depression as the mental health concern at workplace that affects
maximum employees at the workplace ranging from 18 to 65 years of age (Brohan et al., 2012).
Depression has been chosen for the discussion because despite being common, its traits are
unrecognizable and the affected person loses self-esteem, confidence and develops nervousness,
irritability and restless ness. Social discrimination, less access to support service and
unavailability to medication are also responsible for selection of this mental health issue for
discussion (Jorm, 2012).
2. Research information
According to the data provided by the WHO (2018), more than 300 million people
worldwide are suffering from depression currently and maximum of it are due to the emergence
of negative work environment. The survey conducted by WHO worldwide determined that the
anxiety and depression symptoms in workplace is responsible for $1 trillion every years with
respect to productivity. while discussing the demographic of depression is Australia, it should be
mentioned that more than 14% Australians suffer from anxiety and depression every year and
within that 3% develop psychotic illness such as schizophrenia, dementia and so on. In the
overall population of mentally ill patients, only 35% reach to healthcare experts and 90% of them
lead to violence or self-harm such as suicide (WHO, 2018).