This book presents a unique theoretical and practical overview of the issues relating to stress and burnout among health care professionals. The theoretical discussions include coverage of models of occupational stress and evaluation of assessment instruments.
List of contributors vii Foreword ix Part One Theories of stress among mental health professionals 3(15) Kathleen Moore Cary L. Cooper Stress in health professions: a review of the research literature 18(14) Sally Hardy Ben Thomas Stress and burnout in student health care professionals 32(12) P. Joe Tobin Vedan Gunnoo Jerome Carson Organizations in the mind: the interaction of organizational and intrapsychic perspectives 44(13) Christopher Rance Caring for health care professionals-with special reference to physicians 57(15) Sydney Brandon Measuring stress, coping and burnout in health care professionals 72(19) Jerome Carson Sally Hardy Part Two The context of caring: facilitating workplace competence 91(15) David Sines Stress in nursing and health visiting: the potential of clinical supervision 106(9) Tony Butterworth In-patient services for sick health care professionals 115(13) Sally Hardy Mike Gill Catherine Adcock Providing support systems for health care staff 128(17) Jan Long The staff support group as a monitor for work-related stress: a personal perspective 145(12) Mark Sutherland Stress management interventions 157(18) Jerome Carson Elizabeth Kuipers Stressed staff: implications for staff selection 175(11) Ben Thomas Personal experiences of stress at work 186(14) Patrick Hopkinson Sally Hardy Jerome Carson Improving care by caring for professional carers 200(9) Sally Hardy Jerome Carson Ben Thomas Index 209
