CBT for Occupational Stress in Health Professionals: Introducing a Schema-Focused Approach

by Bamber; Martin R.

• ISBN13: 9781583918524
• ISBN10: 1583918523
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781135446611
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2006-06-23
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

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 Professionalsgoes 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 Biography

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

List of figures and tables	x
About the author	xii
Notes on contributors	xiii
Preface	xv
Acknowledgements	xviii
PART I Introduction
1 Defining and conceptualizing stress	3	(12)
MARTIN BAMBER
2 A cognitive behavioural model of occupational stress	15	(10)
MARTIN BAMBER
PART II Standard interventions for occupational stress	25	(122)
3 Assessment and treatment strategies for occupational stress	27	(14)
MARTIN BAMBER
4 Organizational strategies for managing stress at work	41	(16)
ALISTAIR OSTELL
5 Secondary level cognitive and behavioural interventions for normative levels of occupational stress	57	(13)
MARTIN BAMBER
6 Tertiary level cognitive behavioural interventions for work-related anxiety	70	(12)
MARTIN BAMBER
7 Cognitive behavioural therapy for other work-related anxiety syndromes	82	(10)
MARTIN BAMBER
8 Cognitive behavioural therapy for work-related depression and other occupational stress syndromes	92	(12)
MARTIN BAMBER
9 Theresa: A case of performance anxiety	104	(14)
MARK LATHAM
10 Patrick: A case of depression linked to perfectionism	118	(15)
PAUL BLENKIRON
11 Colin: A case of health anxiety	133	(14)
MARK LATHAM
PART III A schema-focused approach to occupational stress	147	(73)
12 A schema-focused model of occupational stress	149	(13)
MARTIN BAMBER AND JASON PRICE
13 Work dysfunctions and their associated early maladaptive schemata and coping styles	162	(15)
MARTIN BAMBER
14 A schema-focused approach to treating work dysfunctions	177	(14)
MARTIN BAMBER
15 Conceptualizing and treating a case of workaholism and burnout using the schema-focused approach	191	(12)
MARTIN BAMBER
16 Occupation as re-enactment: Adaptive or maladaptive?	203	(11)
JASON PRICE
17 Discussion and conclusions	214	(6)
MARTIN BAMBER
References	220	(33)
Index	253