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Regular mental health checkups can offer support and therapeutic benefit.
Given the highly stressful and intense nature of public safety work, personnel are at elevated risk for mental health concerns. However, stigma and fear of job-related consequences inhibit some employees from seeking mental health services. A preventative approach can help employees to maintain wellness and resilience and assist in avoiding problems that may impair job performance and break down the barriers to seeking such services. Wellness visits are such an approach.
These visits aim to provide a convenient, confidential, and consistent way to promote early identification of possible mental health issues; to provide education and resources to promote wellness and resiliency; and to normalize the experience of speaking to a mental health professional. They are intended to provide a confidential setting in which an employee can slow down and reflect on work situations, explore reactions to them, plan self-care strategies, and identify work or personal issues needing attention to prevent stress overload.
The goals of such visits are to maintain wellness and resilience and promote positive coping strategies by discussing:
- Common reactions to difficult cases or stressful events in public safety work.
- Behavioral and psychological signs of stress overload.
- Effective methods of stress tolerance.
- Concerns related to the interaction of work stress, family stress, or peer stress.
These visits are supportive and therapeutic in nature — they are not fitness for duty evaluations and have no evaluative component.
Your next step
This resource developed by the League of Minnesota Cities human resources team answers your commonly asked questions about providing mental health checkup programs.
—View Q&A on Preventive Mental Health Checkups for Public Safety Employees