Stress in Health Professionals: Psychological and Organisational Causes and Interventions
Jenny Firth-Cozens
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Description for Stress in Health Professionals: Psychological and Organisational Causes and Interventions
Paperback. This 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. Editor(s): Payne, R.L.; Firth-Cozens, Jenny. Num Pages: 286 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: MBNH9; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 444.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
Number of Pages
286
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780471998761
SKU
V9780471998761
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Ref
99-50
About Jenny Firth-Cozens
Jenny Firth-Cozens is an occupational and clinical psychologist and Professor Emeritus of Clinical Psychology who has worked at all levels of the health service and within academia. She has published numerous reports and several books, both academic and popular, including Stress in Health Professionals: Psychological and organizational causes and interventions and Nervous Breakdown: What is it? What causes it? Who ... Read more
Reviews for Stress in Health Professionals: Psychological and Organisational Causes and Interventions
"... 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 "The book can be recommended as a resource for health providers, managers researchers involved in the field of ... Read more