Industrial Health category: 2135 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Continuous activity and high job demands surround corporate environments. These demands are considered to be key triggers for workers’ stressrelated 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...
The Handbook of Stress
Neuropsychological Effects on the Brain
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
The Handbook of Stress: Neuropsychological Effects on the Brain is an authoritative guide to the effects of stress on brain health, with a collection of articles that reflect the most recent findings in the field.
Presents cutting edge findings on the effects of stress on brain health
Examines...
by Harlan D. Platt
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Since its publication in 1998, this indispensable text has been the only systematic examination of corporate renewal, offering a rational approach for dealing with financially distressed companies. It contains the first logical and orderly discussion of a number of modern business issues including...
Burnout at Work
A psychological perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
The psychological concept of burnout refers to long-term exhaustion from, and diminished interest in, the work we do. It’s a phenomenon that most of us have some understanding of, even if we haven’t always been affected directly. Many people start their working lives full of energy and enthusiasm,...
by Rudy Nydegger
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Although most people go to work Monday through Friday, few stop to think about the central role work plays in our lives. Besides allowing us to provide for the material needs of ourselves and our families, having a job or career can help us to meet new people and stay socially connected, to increase...
Risk Savvy
How to Make Good Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
An eye-opening look at the ways we misjudge risk every day and a guide to making better decisions with our money, health, and personal lives
In the age of Big Data we often believe that our predictions about the future are better than ever before. But as risk expert Gerd Gigerenzer shows, the...
Psychology, Emotion and Intuition in Work Relationships
The Head, Heart and Gut Professional
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Psychology, Emotion and Intuition in Work Relationships: The Head, Heart and Gut Professional highlights the increasing importance of human relations in professional life. In modern society, all those who work with or provide services to others are increasingly called upon to be not just technical...
Creating Organizational Value through Dialogical Leadership
Boiling Rice in Still Water
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
This book demonstrates Dialogical Leadership which is the workplace application of the Dialogical Self Theory, first developed by Dutch psychologist Hubert Hermans in the 1990s. It encourages scientists and science-practitioners interested in leadership issues to discuss the power of dialogue in solving...
Activity Groups in Family-Centered Treatment
Psychiatric Occupational Therapy Approaches for Parents and Children
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Get the tools for practical family-based interventions for children or adolescents with mental illness
Providing parent-child occupation-based interventions can be one of the most important therapeutic services offered to children or parents with mental illness and their families. Activity...
Forgotten Feng Shui
Buried Treasure
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Forgotten Feng Shui is an engaging, entertaining and in-depth explanation of the foundation level ideas upon which all feng shui systems are built. The true meanings of these ideas have been almost entirely lost in recent years, obscured by a flood of over-simplified and often confusing one-size-fits-all...
Holding Fast
The Struggle to Create Resilient Caregiving Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
How can caregivers remain both caring and strong enough to withstand the stress of their work?
How can caregiving organizations effectively improve their management and practice?
Increasing pressure on caregiving organizations to serve more people with fewer resources means that epidemics of...
Coaching Creativity
Transforming your practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
Creativity and coaching are two of the buzzwords of the twenty-first century and yet little is known about how to coach creativity. In business, education, health and many other fields there is an increasing acknowledgement of the importance of innovation and recognition of what is lost when creativity...
Pastoral Care for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Healing the Shattered Soul
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Provide effective care for the members of your congregation suffering with PTSD!
This vital book is an overview of the nature of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It examines the causes, manifestations, and problems of PTSD as they relate to a person socially, spiritually, emotionally,...
Organizational Justice
International perspectives and conceptual advances
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Organizational justice – the perception of workplace fairness – can bring important benefits not only to the health and well-being of individual employees but also to the productivity of organizations themselves. This timely new collection, with contributions from leading researchers from around...