The workplace can be protective of a person's mental health if the work has quality features. However, empirical evidence shows that there are significant psycho-social risks associated with the workplace that affect our mental health - the content of work, the workload and pace of work, working time, the mindset and the way the organisation operates, interpersonal relationships at work, career development, or even violence and intimidation at work.
Through the Day Centre for Employee Support we seek to address these risks in order to enhance the mental health, wellbeing and resilience of employees.
We aim to support all employees from every workplace! In particular, through awareness and prevention actions we address all those issues that workers face today - work stress, burnout, communication issues, workplace bullying.
A special target of the Day Centre are the self-employed and employees of small and medium-sized enterprises, who are often faced with specific issues such as higher levels of insecurity and higher risk-taking behaviours, loss of work-life balance and following high levels of conflict and finally, chronic stress due to exhausting work, social isolation and economic pressures they experience.
For the effective provision of the mental health services of the Day Centre, we cooperate with the Athens Chamber of Commerce, the institutional body representing small and medium-sized businesses and self-employed professionals of the Athens region.
In addition, the Institution collaborates with the Panhellenic Association for Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Vocational Reintegration - PEPSAEE in order to offer scientific experience, supervision and know-how for the organization and operation of the services of the Day Centre.
The Day Centre's psychosocial care to the community embraces the principles of Community Psychiatry to provide integrated, sectored, multidimensional and interconnected health services.
In particular, the Day Centre is addressed to employees who request support for:
enhancing their mental health and well-being,
the treatment of mental disorders,
assessing and addressing psychosocial risks in their workplace,
changing the organisational culture in their workplace,
support for social-welfare issues,
liaison/referral to social and health institutions.
Reception services
- Secretarial Support & Information Provision
- Reception and transmission of requests
- Monitoring & managing meetings
Occupational health services
- Assessing the suitability and competence of workers
- Assessment of psychosocial needs and health risks
- Individualised counselling intervention
- Systematic medical monitoring (follow-up)
Psychological services
- Needs assessment, conducting psychometric tests
- Development and implementation of personalised care and support plans
- Therapeutic interventions (counselling support for empowerment and strengthening the mental resilience of employees - individual therapeutic intervention for employees facing mental disorders - therapeutic groups - specialised programmes such as therapeutic exercise, drama therapy, dance therapy, music therapy - peer to peer support groups)
- Systematic monitoring (follow-up)
Psychiatric services
- Diagnostic assessment and needs assessment
- Development and implementation of personalised care and support plans
- Therapeutic intervention
- Systematic medical monitoring (follow-up)
Social service
- Reception, organisation and management of requests
- Social needs assessment
- Information and support on social-welfare issues
- Operation of the referral protocol
- Organisation and operation of groups of interconnected actors
- Advisory support
Specialised mental health services
- Therapy assisted with virtual & augmented reality tools
- Operation of specially designed spaces for the discharge, relaxation and activation of the beneficiaries.
- Telephone support
- Crisis café
Community education actions
- Networking and cooperation with services/bodies
- Conducting workshops, events, communication campaigns
- Mental health prevention & promotion groups
- Personalised workplace counselling and support
Research & development activities
- Evaluation and field research, case studies
- Development of specialised programmes for the prevention & promotion of mental health
- Development of methodological tools, guidelines and dissemination of good practices
- Dissemination of good practices
The Day Centre for Family Support is implemented within the framework of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan Greece 2.0 with funding from the European Union - NextGenerationEU.
Contact details
Address: 23 Vissis Street, Monastiraki - D. Athens
Phone 1: 210 33 14 603
Phone 2: 698 04 97 320
Email: employees@thalpos.org.gr
Contact details
Address: 23 Vissis Street, Monastiraki - D. Athens
Phone 1: 210 33 14 603
Phone 2: 698 04 97 320
Email: employees@thalpos.org.gr
