Title:
Mental health and productivity in the workplace : a handbook for organizations and clinicians
Publication Information:
San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass, 2003
ISBN:
9780787962159
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Summary
Summary
Mental Health and Productivity in the Workplace is a comprehensive and practical guide to identifying, understanding, preventing, and resolving individual and organizational mental health problems in the workplace. Originally published as Mental Health in the Workplace (Van Nostrand/Wiley, 1993), this completely revised, updated, and expanded edition represents the most current thinking in the field and contains contributions from an expert panel of organizational and occupational psychiatrists. With fifty percent more chapters, this new edition adds essential material on creating systems and cultures that encourage organizational productivity and employee mental health and on finding cost-effective,quality mental health care. The book focuses on problems that start "at the top" (executive dysfunction) as well as on the effects of organizational structure, office politics, chronic change, downsizing and employment uncertainty, office wide emotional crises, and aspects of organizational development. In addition, this helpful resource includes information about such basic issues as anxiety, stress, burnout, depression, drug and alcohol abuse, violence, and psychosis.
Author Notes
Jeffrey P. Kahn, M.D., is president of WorkPsych Associates
Alan M. Langlieb, M.D., M.B.A., is an assistant professor of psychiatry at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland
Table of Contents
| Figures and Tables | p. xiii |
| Foreword | p. xvii |
| Preface | p. xix |
| Part 1 The Workplace and Mental Health | p. 1 |
| 1 Workplace Mental Health Quality: Effective Recognition, Management, Evaluation, Treatment, and Benefits | p. 3 |
| Recognition, Management, and Referral | |
| Evaluation: Define the Problem to Define the Treatment | |
| Treatment: Techniques of Psychotherapy and Consultation | |
| Assessing Treatment and Consultation Response | |
| Building a Better Benefit: Quality Mental Health Care Guidelines | |
| 2 Mental Health Care Providers and Delivery Systems | p. 28 |
| Providers | |
| Delivery Systems | |
| 3 Cost-Effectiveness, Cost Containment, and Worker Productivity | p. 48 |
| Cost-Benefit and Cost-Effectiveness | |
| Cost-Offset | |
| Cost Containment | |
| Productivity | |
| 4 Mental Health Ethics and Confidentiality in the Organization | p. 60 |
| Medical Ethics | |
| Role of the Physician | |
| Mental Health Referral Situations with Potential for Moral Conflict | |
| Appendix | |
| 5 Psychiatry, Productivity, and Health: A Brief History of Psychiatry in the Workplace | p. 71 |
| Early History | |
| 1920s: Psychiatrists in the Workplace | |
| 1930s and 1940s: War Stress and Initial Academic Efforts | |
| 1950s and 1960s: Increasing Clinical Involvement | |
| 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s: Expanding Psychiatric Horizons | |
| The Third Millennium: New Directions | |
| Part 2 Common Occupational Concerns | p. 89 |
| 6 Executive Development: Assessment, Coaching, and Treatment | p. 91 |
| Executive Assessment | |
| Leadership Development | |
| Executive Coaching | |
| Personal Treatment | |
| Organizational Intervention | |
| Appendix | |
| 7 Executive Distress and Organizational Consequences | p. 113 |
| Narcissism: Patching over the Uncaring World | |
| Competition Gone Awry: Intergenerational Oedipal Conflict | |
| When It Looks Like Character Is Destiny: Rigid Personalities Under Stress | |
| Hiding Away Those Pesky Emotions: Repression of Emotional Distress | |
| 8 Job Loss and Employment Uncertainty | p. 135 |
| The Impact of Impending Job Loss | |
| How the Effect of Job Loss Is Transmitted | |
| An Integrated Model | |
| Assessing the Impact of Impending Job Loss | |
| Impact on Those Who Remain at Work | |
| Intervention | |
| Preventive Interventions | |
| 9 Sending Employees and Families Overseas: Mental Health in the Workplace Abroad | p. 155 |
| Mental Health and Psychosocial Issues in Expatriate Populations | |
| Costs of Overseas Moves and Early Curtailment Rates | |
| Mental Health Services and Legal Issues Overseas | |
| Policy and Procedures to Minimize Disruption from Mental Health Issues | |
| 10 Office Politics: The Good the Bad, and the Ugly | p. 171 |
| Knowing and Understanding Personality Styles | |
| Knowing and Understanding Leadership Styles | |
| Issues in Managing Your Boss | |
| Understanding What Motivates Leaders' Behavior | |
| Attitudes Toward Authority | |
| Organizational Culture | |
| Hidden Agendas | |
| Boundary Issues and Regression | |
| Male-Female Relationships | |
| Competition | |
| Part 3 Common Organizational Issues | p. 203 |
| 11 How Leadership and Organizational Structure Can Create a Winning Corporate Culture | p. 205 |
| What Is Corporate Culture? | |
| Organizational Cultures: The Two Extremes | |
| How the CEO's Style Shapes Culture | |
| How Organizational Structures Affect Culture | |
| Other Factors That Influence Culture | |
| 12 A Comprehensive Overview of Organizational Change | p. 233 |
| Leveraging a Company's Potential | |
| Moving to Action | |
| Forging Psychological Contracts | |
| Managing for Changing Realities | |
| Adapting to Change | |
| The Casualties of Change | |
| Successfully Leading Change | |
| Changing Times: What Is Coming Next? | |
| 13 Organizational Consequences of Family Problems | p. 254 |
| Literature and Research | |
| Family Problems: Cases and Discussion | |
| Interventions | |
| 14 Psychiatric Causes of Workplace Problems | p. 276 |
| Common Work Problems | |
| Causes | |
| Effects on the Employee and the Organization | |
| Assessment | |
| Interventions | |
| Prevention | |
| 15 Emotional Crises in the Workplace | p. 297 |
| Disaster and Emotional Trauma | |
| Traumatic Events at the Work Site | |
| Substance Abuse Emergencies | |
| Suicide | |
| Psychotic Behavior | |
| 16 Violence in the Workplace | p. 314 |
| Defining Workplace Violence and Threat Assessment | |
| Potential Roles for Mental Health Professionals in Threat Assessment | |
| Knowledge Base for Threat Assessment and Violence in the Workplace | |
| Responding to Workplace Threats and Violence | |
| 17 Psychiatric Fitness-for-Duty Examinations | p. 329 |
| Fitness-for-Duty Guidelines | |
| The Sensitive Nature of Psychiatric Information | |
| Appropriate Situations for Psychiatric Examinations | |
| Work Function Assessment | |
| Information Exchange | |
| Administrative Minefields | |
| Appendix A | |
| Appendix B | |
| 18 Disability and Workers' Compensation | p. 347 |
| Workplace Disability Problems and Definitions | |
| The Treating Physician's Role | |
| The Psychiatric Disability Consultative Examination | |
| Determination of Causality | |
| Administrative Medical Review | |
| Adopting the Disability Role: A Psychological Process | |
| Prevention of Disability | |
| Work-Related Impairments and Workers' Compensation | |
| 19 Workplace Forensic Psychiatry: The Americans with Disabilities Act and the Family and Medical Leave Act | p. 369 |
| Understanding the ADA | |
| Family and Medical Leave Act | |
| Appendix | |
| 20 Organizational Ethics in the Company: Beyond Personal, Professional, and Business Ethics | p. 387 |
| Ethics: Definitions, Classification System, and Ethical Perspectives | |
| Commonly Encountered Ethical Issues in Corporations | |
| Organizational Ethics in Action | |
| Two Ethical Perspectives Germane to Organizational Ethics | |
| Systemic Factors with an Impact on Organizational Ethics | |
| Part 4 Common Employee Problems | p. 405 |
| 21 Anxiety and Stress | p. 407 |
| Adjustment Disorder with Anxiety, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and Other Tension States | |
| Panic Disorder: Intense Anxiety and Phobias | |
| Social Anxiety Disorder: Stage Fright and Shyness | |
| Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder | |
| Posttraumatic Stress Disorder | |
| 22 Depression and Burnout | p. 433 |
| Adjustment Disorder with Depressed Mood | |
| Major Depression | |
| Dysthymia and Atypical Depression | |
| Bipolar Disorder | |
| 23 Personality: Personalities, Personal Style, and Trouble Getting Along | p. 458 |
| Obsessive Compulsive: Overinvolved, Underachieving Employees | |
| Histrionic: Overemotional, Overreactive Employees | |
| Antisocial: Criminal or Aggressive Employees | |
| Paranoid: Isolated or Litigious Employees | |
| Borderline: Impulsive or Divisive Employees | |
| Narcissistic: Grandiose or Demanding Employees | |
| Passive-Aggressive: Compliant or Underachieving Employees | |
| 24 Drugs: Abuse and Dependence | p. 481 |
| Possible Causes of Workplace Drug Abuse | |
| Workplace Management and Referral | |
| Drug Use, Drug Abuse, and Addiction | |
| Individual Drug-Dependence Syndromes | |
| Testing for Drug Use | |
| Public Policy and Law | |
| Psychiatric Management | |
| Appendix | |
| 25 Alcohol: Abuse and Dependence | p. 502 |
| Workplace Recognition and Referral | |
| Causes and Effects of Alcoholism in the Workplace | |
| Psychiatric Management | |
| Return to Work | |
| 26 Psychosis: Peculiar Behaviors and Inflexible Bizarre Beliefs | p. 517 |
| Delusional Disorders | |
| Affective Disorders with Psychotic Features | |
| Substance-Induced Psychotic Disorder | |
| Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders | |
| 27 Emotion and Illness: The Psychosomatic Interface | p. 540 |
| Somatoform Disorders: Physical Symptoms of Emotional Origin | |
| Factitious Disorders and Malingering: Falsely Reported Symptoms | |
| Psychiatric Disorders with Frequent Physical Symptoms | |
| Controversial Medical Illnesses: Functional Somatic Syndromes | |
| Emotional Aspects of Physical Disease | |
| Organic Behavioral Syndromes | |
| About the Editors | p. 569 |
| About the Contributors | p. 571 |
| Name Index | p. 579 |
| Subject Index | p. 587 |
