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CBT for occupational stress in health professionals : introducing a schema-focused approach
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Hove, East Sussex : Routledge, 2006
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9781583918524
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The costs of occupational stress in terms of sickness absence, ill-health-related retirement, litigation and lost productivity are increasing, putting strain on economies across the world. The fact that health care work is inherently more stressful than many other occupations makes it vital that the problem of occupational stress among health professionals is addressed.

CBT for Occupational Stress in Health Professionals goes beyond simply defining the problem and fills a gap in the current literature by providing clear and concise individual treatment interventions. In three parts, the book covers:

an overview of stress in the occupational context the standard CBT approach to assessment, formulation and treatment a new schema-focused approach to treating occupational stress.

The schema-focused approach presented here provides powerful tools for treating a range of work-related problems for which standard CBT approaches are ineffective. Case studies are presented throughout the book to illustrate the therapeutic approaches described.

This book will be of huge benefit to clinical and organizational psychologists, psychiatrists, mental health workers, counsellors and anyone else involved in treating occupational stress. It will also have much to offer those who manage people suffering from stress, human resource workers and those who are experiencing work-related stress.


Author Notes

Martin R. Bamber is a chartered consultant clinical psychologist. He presently holds the post of Head of the Primary Care and Adult Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Sections of Selby and York NHS Primary Care Trust Psychological Therapies Department. He is also a teaching fellow at the University of York and is founder and Director of MRB Clinical Psychology Services, a private practice based in York


Table of Contents

Martin BamberMartin BamberMartin BamberAlistair OstellMartin BamberMartin BamberMartin BamberMartin BamberMark LathamPaul BlenkironMark LathamMartin Bamber and Jason PriceMartin BamberMartin BamberMartin BamberJason PriceMartin Bamber
List of figures and tablesp. x
About the authorp. xii
Notes on contributorsp. xiii
Prefacep. xv
Acknowledgementsp. xviii
Part I Introductionp. 1
1 Defining and conceptualizing stressp. 3
2 A cognitive behavioural model of occupational stressp. 15
Part II Standard interventions for occupational stressp. 25
3 Assessment and treatment strategies for occupational stressp. 27
4 Organizational strategies for managing stress at workp. 41
5 Secondary level cognitive and behavioural interventions for normative levels of occupational stressp. 57
6 Tertiary level cognitive behavioural interventions for work-related anxietyp. 70
7 Cognitive behavioural therapy for other work-related anxiety syndromesp. 82
8 Cognitive behavioural therapy for work-related depression and other occupational stress syndromesp. 92
9 Theresa: A case of performance anxietyp. 104
10 Patrick: A case of depression linked to perfectionismp. 118
11 Colin: A case of health anxietyp. 133
Part III A schema-focused approach to occupational stressp. 147
12 A schema-focused model of occupational stressp. 149
13 Work dysfunctions and their associated early maladaptive schemata and coping stylesp. 162
14 A schema-focused approach to treating work dysfunctionsp. 177
15 Conceptualizing and treating a case of workaholism and burnout using the schema-focused approachp. 191
16 Occupation as re-enactment: Adaptive or maladaptive?p. 203
17 Discussion and conclusionsp. 214
Referencesp. 220
Indexp. 253