Mental well-being interventions in the military: The ten key principles.
Erin G LawrenceN JonesN GreenbergN T FearS WesselyG MichaelSean Taylor-BeirneA SimmsPublished in: BMJ military health (2021)
Organisations including the United Kingdom Armed Forces should seek to implement mental health interventions to increase the psychological well-being of their workforce. This editorial briefly presents ten key principles that military forces should consider before implementing such interventions. These include job-focused training; evaluating interventions; the use of internal versus external training providers; the role of leaders; unit cohesion, single versus multiple session psychological interventions; not overgeneralising the applicability of interventions; the need for repeated skills practice; raising awareness and the fallibility of screening.