Factors affecting mental health professionals' sharing of their lived experience in the workplace: A scoping review

Abstract

Objective: Research has suggested that some mental health professionals (MHPs) continue to hold stigmatized beliefs about persons with emotional distress. These beliefs may be amenable to contact-based interventions with similar peers. To inform future interventions, policy, and research, this scoping review examined existing literature to identify factors that affect disclosure of lived experience by MHPs to colleagues and supervisors. Methods: A systematic search was conducted of four online databases, gray literature, and the reference lists of included articles. Primary research studies of any design conductedwith MHPs with lived experience of emotional distress and their colleagues were..