The Stress check Program is a mandatory government policy for mental health at the workplace, which requires all workplaces with 50 and more employees to practice at least once a year.
The challenge for HR in each organization, however, is to find a strategic program or actions after screening potential sufferers of mental distress among their organizations.
The resilience program based on the SPARK model by Dr Ilona Boniwell was conducted across several organizations, which was proposed in a series of the Stress check Program as a counteraction to promote employees’ mental health.
It is the program that is short enough, three hours at the longest, easy to practice during the daily work hours, which response to the workplace conditions in the general Japanese companies.
Analysis of the quantitative and qualitative data after the sessions could offer one possible and practical intervention suiting the Japanese workplace conditions to practitioners and human resource professionals to prevent and promote mental health in the organizations.