{"id":2916,"date":"2020-10-07T18:52:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T17:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coachmentoring.co.uk\/articles\/?p=2916"},"modified":"2020-10-07T18:53:53","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T17:53:53","slug":"support-mental-health-during-a-pandemic-using-coaching-and-mentoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coachmentoring.co.uk\/articles\/2020\/10\/support-mental-health-during-a-pandemic-using-coaching-and-mentoring\/","title":{"rendered":"Support Mental Health during a pandemic using coaching and mentoring"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MentalWhat a roller-coaster six months the whole world has experienced. From the stress of moving to working from home, to being on furlough or losing your job, to the pressures of home schooling, isolation and lack of contact or being available online 24\/7. Some has been work-related stress, anxiety about the global pandemic or economic recession, bereavement or grief over losing our old \u2018normality\u2019. People have had to face it all! Our collective mental health has suffered during this period. Let\u2019s explore what impact the pandemic has taken on mental health and how coaching and mentoring can provide support to help people feel emotionally and mentally well as they go forward in this difficult period.<\/p>\n

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The Mental Health impact of the pandemic<\/h2>\n

The Mental Health Foundation<\/a> (in the UK) has found that individuals have gone through a series of mental health issues as the pandemic has progressed. Initially in March 2020, people felt panicked, afraid and unprepared for what was to come. In April, a quarter of adults felt loneliness during lockdown. By May, more than a third of full-time employees in work were worried about losing their jobs and 20% of unemployed people had experienced suicidal thoughts. In July, with lockdown easing, 20% of UK adults still felt hopeless. The Office for National Statistics has found that the rate of depression in adults doubled during June 2020 compared to the start of the lockdown. By August, individual\u2019s mental health responses had not varied much from June.<\/p>\n

A CIPD survey in August, showed that 27% of employees had increased their alcohol intake during lockdown, particularly those with high workloads or caring responsibilities. With so many people working from home, one of the biggest issues has been isolation. Enforced isolation tends to be less easy to tolerate. Although many people have preferred working from home, they like the choice to be their own. A study by the University of Surrey and Brunel University found that a prolonged lack of contact can lead to cognitive decline.<\/p>\n

Now with the strain of further local lockdowns and winter just around the corner, mental health needs to be the number one priority for employers!<\/p>\n

Support employee\u2019s well-being through coaching and mentoring by<\/h2>\n