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Stress in Health Professionals

Stress in Health Professionals

Payne
Firth-Cozens

Paperback

Medical ReferenceGeneral PsychologySelf-Help

ISBN10: 0471998761
ISBN13: 9780471998761
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: Dec 28 1999
Pages: 286
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.18
Language: English
Stress levels in health professionals have been shown to be high inmany countries and in most staff groups. This creates a personalcost to the individuals concerned, a financial cost to theorganisations in terms of absence, early retirement and complaints, and a health cost to patients in terms of the risk of poorerquality care that is received by patients from stressed ordissatisfied staff. At a time when health organisations worldwideare striving to reduce costs and to increase quality, addressingthe psychological well-being of their staff has necessarily risenhigh on their priorities. Stress in Health Professionals reports onthe latest research from around the world on the causes of stressin health professionals and on ways to intervene to reduce stresslevels. In doing this, it takes approaches from organisational andclinical psychology to focus on key staff groups. It considerswider issues such as burn-out, teamwork, training and counsellingservices and investigates the effectiveness of both organisationaland individual interventions. Written by experts from a broad rangeof areas, the chapters include:

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