Orga­ni­sa­tio­nal resi­li­ence

In order to impro­ve men­tal health care on a sus­tainable basis, more resour­ces are nee­ded for pre­ven­ti­on and bet­ter coor­di­na­ti­on of all rele­vant actors. Within the frame­work of an inter­di­sci­pli­na­ry initia­ti­ve in the Pala­ti­na­te, which has taken up the cau­se of pro­mo­ting the topic of resi­li­ence in the Pala­ti­na­te regi­on and also chan­ging public opi­ni­on on this topic, the ITA is loo­king into how men­tal health and in par­ti­cu­lar the con­cept of indi­vi­du­al resi­li­ence can be trans­fer­red from employees to orga­ni­sa­ti­ons. If this trans­fer is suc­cessful, i.e. if orga­ni­sa­tio­nal resi­li­ence can also be built up, then cri­ses or times of high pres­su­re to chan­ge can not only be sur­vi­ved, but also be used for the fur­ther deve­lo­p­ment of an orga­ni­sa­ti­on in the direc­tion of impro­ved sus­taina­bi­li­ty in terms of growth/strengthening.

In the field of men­tal health, the need for chan­ge towards more pre­ven­ti­on is par­ti­cu­lar­ly evi­dent. A look at the cur­rent dis­cus­sions on (men­tal) stress at the work­place and its con­se­quen­ces shows that the solu­ti­on to the social pro­blems that are coming to light can only suc­ceed if all rele­vant groups and sub­sys­tems are taken into account. A health care sys­tem geared purely to "repair" is overta­xed by this.
On the basis of the­se fin­dings, the initia­ti­ve "Die Pfalz macht sich/dich stark — Wege zur Resi­li­enz" was foun­ded in the Pala­ti­na­te. The initia­ti­ve is hea­ded by the "Pfalz­kli­ni­kum"; many dif­fe­rent actors are invol­ved, e.g. repre­sen­ta­ti­ves of the Insti­tu­te for Tech­no­lo­gy and Labour e.V. in Kai­sers­lau­tern, the Uni­ver­si­ty of Koblenz-Land­au and the Insti­tu­te for Jour­na­lism and Com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on Rese­arch in Hano­ver. The experts joi­n­ed forces in order to streng­then the pre­ven­ti­on of men­tal ill­nesses in the Pala­ti­na­te in the future, i.e. to impro­ve health care sus­tain­ab­ly and sys­te­mi­cal­ly.

From the team's point of view, the key to this is the pro­mo­ti­on of resi­li­ence. This is the abili­ty to deal well with chan­ge and the ups and downs of life and to deve­lop even under adver­se con­di­ti­ons. A key dif­fe­rence to other resi­li­ence approa­ches is con­vic­tion: It is not only for indi­vi­du­als that streng­thening fac­tors need to be built up and risks redu­ced — orga­ni­sa­ti­ons (com­pa­nies, schools, etc.) and com­mu­ni­ties or cities can also pro­mo­te and cul­ti­va­te resi­li­ence — with posi­ti­ve impli­ca­ti­ons not only for indi­vi­du­als but also for the respec­ti­ve over­all sys­tem. The team's visi­on is a resi­li­ent regi­on in the year 2025.

The alli­ance is curr­ent­ly working on con­cre­te acti­vi­ties and net­works in the fields of "Theo­ry and The­ra­py", "Orga­niza­ti­on and Work" and "Com­mu­ni­ty and Public Health". Alre­a­dy today, the­re is a wide ran­ge of acti­vi­ties, pro­jects to impro­ve men­tal health at the work­place, in the regi­on. In order to bring about a tru­ly sus­tainable chan­ge in the health sys­tem and socie­ty as well as in public opi­ni­on on the sub­ject of men­tal health and pre­ven­ti­on, the group coope­ra­tes with the Frame­Works Insti­tu­te, a com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on rese­arch orga­niza­ti­on from the USA. The lat­ter will deve­lop a clear com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on stra­tegy aimed at chan­ging public opi­ni­on in order to reach citi­zens as well as decis­i­on-makers in busi­ness and poli­tics and to steer the dis­cour­se in a pro­duc­ti­ve direc­tion.
In a few years, atti­tu­des and struc­tures regar­ding men­tal health in the Pala­ti­na­te will have chan­ged noti­ce­ab­ly and mea­sur­a­b­ly and pre­ven­ti­ve and health-main­tai­ning mea­su­res will have been expan­ded.

To the web­site of the initia­ti­ve: www​.resi​li​enz​-pfalz​.de