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China is in the social transition, the various contradictions and conflicts led to different types of psychological problems. Among them, the weight of psychiatric patients over more than 1600 million, with a much larger number of mental disorders. Recently, the Foxconn case so that the whole community concerned about mental health issues. However, the psychological problems alone are not enough psychiatrists, but also the whole community to establish a sound mechanism for psychological intervention. Starting from this issue, this edition will be launched, "mental health concern" series of reports.

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"80 after" staff resistance to frustration and less

"a company employee, in such a short period of time, so frequently jump House of suicide reveals the business transformation of the staff psychological crisis. "Head of Capital University of Medical Humanities, psychology professor SUN said.

her analysis of the enterprise itself from Foxconn, enterprises have not really established the management concept of humanity, paid insufficient attention to the building of enterprise culture. "In the monotonous assembly line work, it is easy to produce burnout, coupled with a high degree of process and standardization of management so that employees feel the work is a machine." In her view, such a corporate culture can not meet "After 80", "90 after" the psychological needs of young employees.

against the business too low to enable a new generation of young workers into deep despair and commit suicide in order to seek relief. AQ (Adversity Quotient) full name of the Adversity Quotient, or called the adversity quotient to predict the human ability to resist setback. It is when people react in a way the face of adversity, in the face of setbacks, off the hook and the ability to overcome difficulties. From rural to urban gap, the gap between the family to society, the ideal to the reality of a gap so that these young people at a loss, there is no way in the business outlet, leading to series of jumping events.

Chinese staff chief specialist mental health project, Gansu Provincial Water Conservancy and Hydropower Survey and Design Institute of deputy party secretary Li Baofu that in social transformation, a profound impact on all pressures employees of the psychology and behavior. Foxconn jump from a building, Foshan Honda workers strike in the event directly reflects the reality of social conflict or refraction pressure, not only those involved in the emotional, psychological cause serious damage and distortion of personality, but also on the community caused by the psychological and behavioral adverse effects or even negative induction.

depression is the most common psychological problems

Beijing laboratory in a hospital emergency department nurses Xiao, and once to a patients blood, for fear of crying children, their mother would open cursed Xiao, since Xiao unhappy at work. Described in a few months time, still more than tears.

water system of a unit on Mental harmony of specialized workers conducted a questionnaire survey. Survey shows that 33.85% of people think they are always in depressed mood, and 10.59% of people consider themselves often in a boring mood among the 7.49% of people think they are often in irritable mood.

Li Baofu said employees of workplace exposure to stress, social pressure and individual pressure groups more than others, so long in fatigue, irritability, depressed mental state.

breadwinning wages paid unreasonable pressure, relationship pressure, the pressure of busy work, and a variety of on-site security for the formation of the Safety for the safety of pressure, etc., are all occupational stress; to Since the family pressure, personal values, self-generated one-sided stress, etc., belong to the individual pressure. With social pressure, three kinds of pressure differences are also closely linked both with each other, interactions in employees can lead to a series of adverse reactions.

First, psychological changes, most notably mood and memory changes in thinking, anxiety, irritability, tension, depressed, depression, despair, attention and memory loss, severe depression tend to last develop into a depression, or obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety disorder, fear psychosis. According to related statistics, the domestic career employees is the most common psychological problems of depression tendency.

followed by the physical changes, headache, hypertension, heart disease, stomach ulcers, insomnia, cancer and a series of psychosomatic illnesses. Related research institutions from the United States showed 90% of human health problems are closely related with the pressure.

Finally, behavioral changes, manifested as increased frequency of smoking, drinking drowned their sorrows, no reason to throw a tantrum, do not care about children and their families, low efficiency, turnover, absenteeism, lateness, absenteeism, total to Toilet, overeating, drug abuse and suicide.

SUN said: "In modern society, almost without exception, all sectors of the employees feel the pressure. One's own inner strength is strong enough, social support network is good, is to judge a people against the business level, will the key to psychological problems. "

staff psychological problems may affect the efficiency and effectiveness, corporate management of psychological problems may lead to serious consequences of wrong decisions, special industry employees psychological problems can even give social and environmental disaster.

a mental health professional burnout dead

China Human Resources Development Network, "China" Burnout Index "survey" found that 70% of respondents appear burnout; "China Staff mental health "survey results show that 25.04% of respondents have a degree of mental health problems.

However, in our country, the staff were less concerned about the psychological problems. Chinese Mental Health Project staff said Wang Wei, Executive Director, staff loyalty, compliance and effort in exchange for job stability as a condition is no longer the case, some employees no longer work as before, began to burnout, low in spirits. The mental health of corners, he was many of us are "people oriented", "employee first" neglected.

Since 2007, SUN led the team in Beijing Millennium Monument Hospital, Shijingshan Hospital, Xuanwu Hospital medical staff have to implement a free employee assistance program. But SUN find more access to services for nurses, doctors with low seniority, managers are often unaware of the importance of the implementation of employee assistance programs.

"This is where the concept of cultural factors, but also economic factors." Hong Sun said. It is generally agreed that mental illness mental illness, is a shameful thing. In addition, some of the community to provide Employee Assistance Program services to organizations asking price is high, there is no certain economic strength of enterprises and institutions would not put in too much. In fact the United States survey, one U.S. dollar invested enterprises as employees, can save operating costs 5-16 dollars.

Recently, the Chinese staff mental health project launched. The project is a foreign-based employee assistance program, combined with China's national conditions and development of a mental health care system engineering staff. Engineering Psychology expert team will provide services to enterprises and institutions contract depth. Today, China has signed and Mental Health Project more than 600 mental institutions, mental workers, thousands of people signing. Hundreds of companies as contract customers, primarily related to communications, finance, sales, IT, metallurgy and other industries.

80s of last century, the internationally recognized Employee Assistance Program by the United States to China, from 2001, some enterprises paying attention to the domestic psychological training, but small, very scattered. SUN believes that leadership should be strengthened staff awareness of mental crisis, people with psychological problems to correct misperceptions, increase their involvement in professional psychological workers, while also addressing the issue of localization of Employee Assistance Programs.