Industrial Health category: 2135 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
This peer-reviewed series promotes theory and research in the expanding area of occupational stress, health and well-being. Each volume of this series focuses on a particular topic, allowing authors and readers in that area to critically explore the cutting edge work from their discipline. Interest...
by Ricky Greenwald
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
A practical guide to learning and using EMDR
Trauma is a potential source of most types of emotional or behavioral problems. Extensive research has shown EMDR to be an effective and efficient trauma treatment. EMDR Within a Phase Model of Trauma-Informed Treatment offers mental health professionals...
Sustainable Working Lives
Managing Work Transitions and Health throughout the Life Course
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
The purpose of this volume is to describe the impact of the increased demand for flexibility on employees and its impact on their individual work life trajectories and health. The volume offers concrete examples of interventions aimed to find innovative ways of sustainable work careers for today's...
by Harold Zeliger
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
In this important reference work, Zeliger catalogs the known effects of chemical mixtures
on the human body and also proposes a framework for understanding and predicting their
actions in terms of lipophile (fat soluble) / hydrophile (water soluble) interactions. The
author’s...
by PhD, Melissa Farley
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2004
Prostitution, Trafficking, and Traumatic Stress offers the reader an analysis of prostitution and trafficking as organized interpersonal violence. Even in academia, law, and public health, prostitution is often misunderstood as sex work. The book’s 32 contributors offer clinical examples, analysis, and original research that cou
American Therapy
The Rise of Psychotherapy in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
From Freud to Zoloft, the first comprehensive history of American Psychotherapy
Fifty percent of Americans will undergo some form of psychotherapy in their lifetimes, but the origins of the field are rarely known to patients. Yet the story of psychotherapy in America brims with colorful characters,...
The Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Book
Preventing and Treating CTS
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2009
Explains how Carpal Tunnel Syndrome--nerve damage in the wrists from performing repetitive tasks--is developed; how computer users, assembly-line workers, and others can reduce the risk of injury; how to recognize symptoms; and more.
Workplace Well-being
How to Build Psychologically Healthy Workplaces
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Workplace Wellbeing is a complete guide to understanding and implementing the principles of a psychologically healthy workplace for psychologists and other practitioners.
Grounded in the latest theory and research yet filled with plenty of case studies and proven techniques
Introduces the core...
Job Demands in a Changing World of Work
Impact on Workers' Health and Performance and Implications for Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
This book examines the new ways of working and their impact on employees’ well-being and performance. It concentrates on job demands and flexible work emanating from current economic and organizational change, and assesses impact on workers’ health and performance. The development of issues such...
Preventing Stress, Improving Productivity
European Case-Studies in the Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
In a representative study made of European workers, twenty-eight per cent of employees reported that stress affects their health and their performance at work. Occupational stress is a serious problem for the performance of individuals, organisations and as a consequence, for national economies. Preventing...
Derailed Organizational Interventions for Stress and Well-Being
Confessions of Failure and Solutions for Success
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Providing an overview of researchers' and practitioners’ “confessions” on the fascinating phenomenon of failed or derailed organizational health and well-being interventions and contextualizing these confessions is the aim of this innovative volume. Organizational intervention failures,...
by Toon W. Taris
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
What motivates us to do a good job? When does the pressure of work impact upon our health and well-being? How can employers choose the right candidates?
The Psychology of Working Life shows how, whether we like it or not, the way we work, and our feelings about it, play a fundamental role in...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) as a harmful influence on the health of nonsmokers has been a controversial topic since the early 1980s. The International Conference on Indoor Air Quality held in Tokyo examined in great detail the relationship between passive smoking and lung cancer as revealed...
Trauma-Centered Group Psychotherapy for Women
A Clinician's Manual
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Learn effective PTSD group treatment
The awareness of psychological trauma has grown exponentially in the past decade, and clinicians in many areas have increasingly found themselves confronted with the need to provide trauma-related services to clients. Still, there remains a serious lack...