ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Psychology for Clinical Settings
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1576278
This article is part of the Research TopicNovel Intervention Models Transcending Borders for Stress Management - Volume IIIView all 11 articles
Giving Justice to Listening: Exploring the Impact of a Novel Dialogical Approach to Mental Wellbeing on Healthcare Staff
Provisionally accepted
Isaac Kwabena Akoto Nsiah1*
Connie Junghans Minton1*
Henock Taddese1
Anna Dentschuk2Amanda Bueno de Mesquita3Matthew Ball4- 1Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- 2Wellington Health Centre, North-West London, London, United Kingdom
- 3Community North West London Health Trust, London, United Kingdom
- 4Humane Clinic Australia, Adelaide, Australia
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• The burden of stress on mental health in healthcare workers is significant, resulting in sickness absence and poor patient care• Dialogical and relational approaches therapeutic in nature such as active listening are evidenced to result in better wellbeing, better patient outcome and a better workplace climate.• Just Listening is a novel relationally therapeutic approach to mental wellbeing that was shown to improve mental wellbeing of members of the community and volunteers in Australia.• This study demonstrates that JL can lead to improved mental wellbeing among a variety of healthcare professionals in the UK
Keywords: Just Listening, Mental Health, wellbeing, Health workers, Mental health training
Received: 13 Feb 2025; Accepted: 22 Jul 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Nsiah, Junghans Minton, Taddese, Dentschuk, Bueno de Mesquita and Ball. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Isaac Kwabena Akoto Nsiah, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Connie Junghans Minton, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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