Stress in Health Professionals

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 will help?, which was a book club choice for many years. In addition she has contributed articles to most leading newspapers and magazines and for 10 years was agony aunt for Good Housekeeping and The Yorkshire Post. Roy L. Payne graduated in psychology at Liverpool University and has spent most of his career as a researcher and teacher in business schools and psychology departments in the UK. He is currently Professor of Organizational Psychology at Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia. His work has led to publications in major international journals on organizational structure and climate/culture, and he has also published extensively in the occupational stress area. These remain active areas of interest, as well as more recent work on trust in organizations.

"... 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 work stress...." (International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health, Vol 12, 2000)

• ISSUES IN STUDYING STRESS. Stress at Work: A Conceptual Framework (R. Payne). Burnout (W. Schaufeli). Individual Differences in the Job Stress Process of Health CareProfessionals (P. Spector). Psychological and Physiological Aspects of Stress (J.Herbert). Fallibility, Uncertainty and the Impact of Mistakes and Litigation(C. Vincent). THE PROFESSIONS AND THEIR STRESS. The Psychological Problems of Doctors (J. Firth-Cozens). Nursing (P. Baldwin). Health Service Managers (C. Borrill & C. Haynes). Stress in Ambulance Personnel (K. Young & C. Cooper). Child Protection Workers (T. Cresswell & J.Firth-Cozens). INTERVENTIONS FOR STRESS. Organisational Interventions to Reduce Stress in Health CareProfessionals (L. Murphy). Stress and Interventions for Stress in General Practitioners (J.Howie & M. Porter). Stress in the Nursing Department: Learnings from an Executive TeamRetreat (L. Hirschhorn & L. May). Sharing the Burden: Teamwork in Health Care Settings (A. Carter& M. West). Getting Things Right for the Doctor in Training (F. Moss & E.Paice). Doctors in Trouble (R. Hale & L. Hudson). Setting Up a Workplace Counselling Service (T. Wykes & R.Whittington). Psychotherapeutic Interventions for Work Stress (G. Hardy & M.Barkham). Index.