Stress in Health Professionals: Psychological and Organisational Causes and Interventions

by JennyFirth-Cozens (Editor), RoyL.Payne (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  1999

  $27.78

  Stress levels in health professionals have been shown to be high in many countries, and in most staff groups. This creates a personal cost to the individuals concerned; a financial cost to the organisations in terms of absence, early retirement, and complaints; and a health cost to patients, in terms of the risk of recieving sub-standard care from stressed or dissatisfied staff. At a time when health organizations worldwide are striving to reduce costs and to increase quality, addressing the psychological well-being of their staff has risen to the top of their agendas. This book reports on the latest research from around the world on the causes of stress in health professionals and on the ways to intervene and reduce stress levels. It takes approaches from organisational and clinical psychology to focus on key staff groups, and considers wider issues such as burn-out, teamwork, training, and counselling. It also investigates the effectiveness of both organizational and individual interventions. Looking at psycho-dynamic, psychophysiological, and organisational approaches to occupational stress in health professionals, this book focuses on each specific professional group - hospital doctors, general practitioners, nurses, mental health/community workers, ambulance drivers/paramedics, and managers.