Job stressors and mental health : a proactive clinical perspective / Karen Belkić, Čedo Savić

The title of this book reflects the fundamental aim: to explore the relation between exposure to job stressors and mental health. This is done with the primary intention of developing a new clinical approach, one which takes a proactive stance, emphasizing the need for creating work conditions that are more in harmony with the needs of the human being. Pivotal to this endeavor is to provide an integrative and comprehensive methodology, for assessing work stressors and ameliorating them whenever possible. This methodology, the Occupational Stressor Index, the OSI, was developed by the authors, who have successfully applied the OSI over the years in the context of prevention-oriented clinical practice within neurology and psychiatry, as well as within cardiology, oncology and other medical disciplines. The OSI is grounded in cognitive ergonomics and brain research. The authors, as clinicians, have a special interest in and affinity with their colleagues, their fellow physicians. Consequently, the working conditions and mental health of physicians are strongly emphasized throughout the book. Gender considerations are also woven into the entire book. This book will be of value to readers at many levels and interests. It is written in such a way that a non-expert can learn a great deal about the topics. Readers at all levels can reflect on their own work situation and how it could be improved within the framework of enhanced mental health. For health professionals, particularly psychiatrists, occupational medicine specialists, clinical psychologists as well as physicians involved in primary care and rehabilitation, this book will represent a sorely-needed paradigm shift which will help them address a main source of their patients' mental distress. It will be thought-provoking and yet also practical. Part I of the book provides the multi-faceted, scientific justification for this new clinical approach. The authors, as clinicians themselves, speak the clinical language and guide the reader step-by-step as to how this approach can be applied in practice.

Medienart:

E-Book

Erscheinungsjahr:

c2013

Erschienen:

Singapore Hackensack, N.J: World Scientific Pub. Co ; c2013

Reproduktion:

Online-Ausg.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Belkić, Karen, 1952- [Sonstige Person]
Savić, Čedo [Sonstige Person]

Links:

search.ebscohost.com [lizenzpflichtig]

ISBN:

978-981-4525-56-5

981-4525-56-1

978-981-4525-57-2

981-4525-57-X

Themen:

Burn out (Psychology)
Burnout, Professional
Case Reports
Case studies
Electronic books
HEALTH & FITNESS ; Diseases ; General
Job Satisfaction
Job satisfaction
MEDICAL ; Clinical Medicine
MEDICAL ; Diseases
MEDICAL ; Evidence-Based Medicine
MEDICAL ; Internal Medicine
Mental Disorders
Mental health
Mental illness
Mental illness ; Etiology
Occupational Diseases
Occupational diseases
Occupational diseases ; Prevention
Stress, Psychological
Stress (Psychology)
Work
Work ; Psychological aspects

Anmerkungen:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-372) and index

Umfang:

Online Ressource (xxviii, 376 p.) ; ill.

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

805056041