Thriving at Work While Living with Mental Illness
This interactive webinar will highlight the conditions necessary for thriving at work among individuals living in challenging mental health situations. We will emphasize fairness as the foundation to thriving and the importance of (re)storying multiple perspectives, centering decent work as a basic human right, and identifying the psychological, social, and structural systems necessary for thriving. We will highlight the specific needs of Black, Indigenous, and Other People of Color (BIPOC) and Transgender individuals with lived experience.
Dr. Uma Chandrika Millner (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in Psychology at the Department of Natural and Applied Sciences at Bentley University and licensed psychologist in Massachusetts. Prior to Bentley, she worked as a researcher at Boston University and taught as part-time faculty in the graduate program in mental health counseling program at Boston College and as full-time faculty at the undergraduate program in the Department of Psychology and Applied Therapies at Lesley University. Her overall professional approach is grounded in social justice and multiculturalism. Dr. Millner’s research focuses on work and wellness for marginalized and minoritized communities including individuals with psychiatric disabilities and Asian Americans.
Making Sense of Employment Research (MSER) highlights employment research published in the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal. Each webinar will be designed to discuss a recently published study in a clear and relevant way, even if you know little or nothing about research.
MSER webinars are also available as podcasts on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube Music
This event was supported by funding from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research. NIDILRR is a Center within the Administration for Community Living (ACL), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The contents of this project do not necessarily represent the policy of NIDILRR, ACL, HHS, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.
