Product Description: In Work and the Evolving Self, Steven Axelrod begins to remedy this serious oversight by setting forth a comprehensive psychoanalytic perspective on work life. Consonant with his analytic perspective, Axelrod sets out to illuminate the workplace by examining the psychodynamic meaning of work throughout the life cycle...read more

Product Description: Continuous activity and high job demands surround corporate environments. These demands are considered to be key triggers for workers' stress-related symptoms and poor health. It has been estimated by the American Institute of Stress (AIS) that US$ 300 billion/year are spent on conditions related to excessive stress levels...read more

Product Description: If you have depression, do you persevere or do you risk telling your manager? If you are a manager, what can you do to support the employee and ensure the job is done? Figures suggest that more than ten percent of people in the workforce struggle with depression...read more

Product Description: This book introduces some of the specific contexts in which today's counsellors and psychotherapists find themselves working. It draws upon the experience of counsellors active in their field and uses relevant examples of the potential pitfalls and rewards of counselling in diverse institutional settings...read more

This text provides students and professionals with the knowledge they need to treat work-related psychopathology and contribute to this new and growing aspect of clinical practice.

Product Description: How can organisations defend their employees against psychological trauma? Post-traumatic stress is a topical subject of increasing importance. Yet much of the writing on this subject so far has concerned stress suffered by people exposed to serious turmoil such as war and ethnic conflict...read more

Since 1990, we have learnt a lot from occupational psychology about workplace culture and, in particular, stress in the workplace. This book provides a plan for tackling workplace stress from within. It allows organizations to identify and then seek solutions to its own specific problems.

Product Description: In Fisher's view, corporate sin occurs when leaders have no moral compass to follow, leading to breakdowns in companies, governments and religious organizations. Here he proposes new guidelines to follow.

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Product Description: The new federal guidelines to help employers understand how the Americans with Disabilities Act applies to employees with an emotional disorder make it imperative that occupational psychologists and front line managers identify those workers who have an emotional disorder and distinguish them from those workers who are lazy or have a bad attitude...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Identifies ways employers can identify potential mental health risks and behavioral problems in order to minimize future risks (view table of contents)

Product Description: Originally published as Cities of Peasants, this highly acclaimed account of the expansion of capitalism in the developing world has now been extensively reworked and updated. The book links contemporary differences in the political and economic structure of developing countries to the historically-specific way in which these have become part of the world economy...read more

Product Description: `An excellent introduction.... Readers of this journal looking for a brief but comprehensive introduction to the field of stress management will find this book to be more than adequate for this purpose. Perhaps the book's greatest strength is the way it has managed to combine insights and research from both occupational psychology and clinical psychology to tackle workplace stress...read more

Product Description: This unique book examines how mental health issues impact the workplace, and explores ways to create more mentally healthy work environments. Kemp shows how a mentally healthy workplace can enhance productivity, satisfaction, attendance, and longevity in employment and how companies should comply with federal laws including the 1990s Americans with Disabilities Act...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This theory-based book demonstrates the importance of work and the work environment while examining common psychological hurdles to occupational happiness. In this systematic treatment of the topic, the author examines current literature and proposes a new, clinically useful taxonomy of diagnosis for work-related dysfunction. Numerous case examples illustrate the main areas of the taxonomy and the psychotherapeutic techniques most promising for successful intervention. Several broad areas of work dysfunction are examined, including overcommitment and burn-out, undercommitment and fear of success and failure, work-related anxiety and depression, and personality disorders in the workplace. The book also offers guidance for the unique problems faced by artists, writers and others in the creative professions. This guide is designed to educate therapists to emerging themes in a critical new area of intervention.

Product Description: This book is designed for the clinical psychiatrist who wants to translate his or her current knowledge and skills to the occupational setting. It provides a comprehensive overview of the practice of psychiatry in the workplace. "Psychiatric Consultation in the Workplace" details several professional opportunities available to psychiatrists in the world of work...read more

Product Description: Here is a challenging study on the effects of work and unemployment on mental health. Examined in this comprehensive study are issues such as why some people are more harmed by unemployment than others; why certain job transitions are more difficult; and what we mean by "mental health" and how we can measure it...read more