Student Work

Breaking Barriers, Changing Lives: Investigating Mental Health and Well-Being Among Victorian Women in Emergency Services

Public

Downloadable Content

open in viewer

This investigation provides the Emergency Services Foundation (ESF) of Melbourne, Victoria with information on the barriers preventing women in emergency services from seeking mental health support.This project included introductory interviews, a survey, and focused interviews and discussion groups. The main finding of this project was that to improve work culture, the biggest inhibitor of mental health and well-being of women in the emergency services, focus is needed towards bettering mental health literacy and interpersonal intelligence for line managers.

  • This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.
Creator
Publisher
Identifier
  • E-project-051420-223306
Keyword
Advisor
Year
  • 2020
Center
Sponsor
Date created
  • 2020-05-14
Resource type
Rights statement

Relations

Items

Items

Permanent link to this page: https://digital.wpi.edu/show/v692t8696