Description
Springer Stress Management For Primary Health Care Professionals by Usha R. Rout, Jaya K. Rout
This book is the first one to examine stress in primary health care professionals in the UK - the professionals who are in the frontline of medical care in a rapidly changing society. It is a detailed literate review of stress in general and includes the results of studies on primary health care professionals. It contains extensive material from face-to-face interviews with each profession and practical advice on how they can manage stress.
1. Introduction and Background.
2. What is Stress?
3. Occupational Stress.
4. The Individual and Stress.
5. Consequences of Stress.
6. Potential Sources of Stress Amongst Primary Health Professionals.
7. Stress Management: Individual Strategies.
8. Stress Management: Organisation-Level Strategies.
9. The Way Forward. References.
Useful Services.
About the Authors.
Index.