Mental health awareness should be covered by higher education music
courses to prepare students for an industry in which there appear to be
high levels of depression and anxiety, according to a study published by
charity Help Musicians UK.
Report says that ‘the plethora of music education courses, both within
higher education and elsewhere’ have a ‘responsibility as educators’ to
ensure that students are aware of the challenges they might face in the
music industry – ‘the potentially dangerous environment within which
they seek to forge their careers’.
This responsibility should also be shared ‘within and by the
institutions of the music industries’, says the report. ‘We must share
findings such as those contained within this report and others in this
newly emerging area, in order to stimulate a conversation within the
music industries about the dangers those working within it face.’
The report also recommends the institution of a ‘Code of Best
Practice’ for individuals and organisations, and suggests that a support
scheme for musicians to talk about mental health – ‘something like
Musicians Anonymous’, providing access to professional and peer-to-peer
support – might be a useful service.
Help Musicians UK has already launched the Music Minds Matter
campaign. This will fund a 24-hour mental health helpline and service
for musicians, expected to launch later this year, which ‘will combine
listening, advice and signposting with clinical, medical, therapeutic
and welfare support for those who need it’.
The first part of the Can Music Make You Sick? report was published
in November 2016, and is thought to be the largest academic study on the
mental health of music industry professionals in the UK. Of its 2,211
respondees, 71% had suffered from panic attacks or anxiety, and 69% from
depression.
Subsequent interviews suggested that musicians’ precarious financial
positions, as well as various industry norms and working conditions,
were central factors to poor mental health.
More widely, the government-funded Thriving At Work review,publisheed today says that each year 300,000 people with a long term mental health
problem lose their jobs, and that the cost of poor mental health to the
UK economy is between £74bn and £99bn.
Thriving At Work states: ‘We need to move to a society where all of
us become more aware of our own mental health, other people’s mental
health and how to cope with our own and other people’s mental health
when it fluctuates. It is all our responsibilities to make this change.
However in line with the brief we have been given by the prime minister,
employers are perhaps able to have the greatest impact and scope to
make an impact.’
The prime minister, who commissioned the report, said it showed ‘we
need to take action’, and said that, in line with the report’s
recommendations, NHS and Civil Service employees would be guaranteed
‘tailored in-house mental health support’.
‘It is only by making this an everyday concern for everyone that we
change the way we see mental illness so that striving to improve your
mental health – whether at work or at home – is seen as just as positive
as improving our physical wellbeing.’
Thursday, 26 October 2017
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