Psych CASC / OSCE · Public and community psychiatry — school and workplace mental health
Advise a school and employer on mental health pathways — CASC communication station
MRCPsych/FRANZCP-style communication station: explain multi-tier school supports, SEYLE/YAM evidence in plain language, workplace psychosocial risks, RTW, disclosure ethics, and crisis red flags.
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Format. Communication station, approximately 7–10 minutes. You are the psychiatry registrar invited to a joint school-industry wellbeing meeting. [1]
Candidate instructions. Explain multi-tier school mental health, what SEYLE implies about universal skills programmes versus screening-only approaches, workplace factors that increase depression risk, how return-to-work should be planned, and when to use emergency services. Avoid jargon overload; check understanding; agree next steps. [1][2][3][4]
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- [1]Wasserman D, Hoven CW, Wasserman C, et al. School-based suicide prevention programmes: the SEYLE cluster-randomised, controlled trial Lancet, 2015.PMID 25579833
- [2]Durlak JA, Weissberg RP, Dymnicki AB, et al. The impact of enhancing students' social and emotional learning: a meta-analysis of school-based universal interventions Child Dev, 2011.PMID 21291449
- [3]Harvey SB, Modini M, Joyce S, et al. Can work make you mentally ill? A systematic meta-review of work-related risk factors for common mental health problems Occup Environ Med, 2017.PMID 28108676
- [4]Nieuwenhuijsen K, Verbeek JH, Neumeyer-Gromen A, et al. Interventions to improve return to work in depressed people Cochrane Database Syst Rev, 2020.PMID 33052607