Description
Book SynopsisThis important book reports on the latest research from around the world on the causes of stress in health care professionals, as well as the latest intervention techniques for reducing stress levels among those professionals.
Trade Review"The book can be recommended as a resource for health providers, managers researchers involved in the field of work stress..." --Int. Jnl of Adolescent Medicine Health, Vol 12, 2000 "this is an excellent book to have in your library and many of the chapters should be required reading for professional, strategic and operational line managers concerned with designing effective work environments." --Clinical Child Psychology & Psychiatry, January 2001
Table of ContentsISSUES IN STUDYING STRESS.
Stress at Work: A Conceptual Framework (R. Payne).
Burnout (W. Schaufeli).
Individual Differences in the Job Stress Process of Health CareProfessionals (P. Spector).
Psychological and Physiological Aspects of Stress (J.Herbert).
Fallibility, Uncertainty and the Impact of Mistakes and Litigation(C. Vincent).
THE PROFESSIONS AND THEIR STRESS.
The Psychological Problems of Doctors (J. Firth-Cozens).
Nursing (P. Baldwin).
Health Service Managers (C. Borrill & C. Haynes).
Stress in Ambulance Personnel (K. Young & C. Cooper).
Child Protection Workers (T. Cresswell & J.Firth-Cozens).
INTERVENTIONS FOR STRESS.
Organisational Interventions to Reduce Stress in Health CareProfessionals (L. Murphy).
Stress and Interventions for Stress in General Practitioners (J.Howie & M. Porter).
Stress in the Nursing Department: Learnings from an Executive TeamRetreat (L. Hirschhorn & L. May).
Sharing the Burden: Teamwork in Health Care Settings (A. Carter& M. West).
Getting Things Right for the Doctor in Training (F. Moss & E.Paice).
Doctors in Trouble (R. Hale & L. Hudson).
Setting Up a Workplace Counselling Service (T. Wykes & R.Whittington).
Psychotherapeutic Interventions for Work Stress (G. Hardy & M.Barkham).
Index.
