A comprehensive and practical guide to recognizing, understanding, preventing, and treating individual and organizational mental health problems in the workplace.
Book Details:
- Author: Jeffrey P. Kahn
- ISBN: 9780787962159
- Year Published: 2003
- Pages: 656
- BISAC: BUS085000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Organizational Behavior
About the Book and Topic:
A comprehensive and practical guide to recognizing, understanding, preventing, and treating individual and organizational mental health problems in the workplace.
At a time when efficiency and employee well-being are more critical than ever to successful organizations, stress, burnout, depression, drug abuse, violence and other mental health problems are costing businesses millions of dollars every year in lost productivity and treatment. This definitive guide to understanding and confronting such problems — updated and totally revised from the original Mental Health in the Workplace (Van Nostrand/Wiley 1993)– represents the latest thinking of expert occupational psychiatrists and is intended not only for clinicians but for the thousands of executives, managers and human resources personnel who must plan for and deal with such problems daily. In the past, on-the-job mental health treatment tended to consider each symptomatic worker as suffering from individual pathology. This new edition, however, presents the more enlightened and progressive view that the organization itself often creates a pathological system, a culture and environment which may have inherent problems which can create distress, anxiety, depression, and other serious mental health problems. Consequently the book focuses on problems which start “at the top” (executive dysfunction), as well as organizational structure, office politics, chronic change, the impact of downsizing and other employment uncertainty, office-wide emotional crises, and organizational development, in addition to basic issues like anxiety, stress, burnout, depression, drug and alcohol abuse, violence, and psychosis. An indispensable guide for clinicians and managers on all levels, this volume brings together occupational psychiatry with cost effective implementation of policies for maximum productivity.
A thoroughly revised and updated edition of a classic book. * A comprehensive and practical guide to recognizing, understanding, preventing, and treating individual and organizational mental health problems in the workplace. * An invaluable guide for executives, managers, and HR personnel to understanding and decreasing the cost in profits and productivity of emotional and psychological problems on the job. * Presents an enlightened and progressive view that the organization itself often creates a pathological system and can create distress, anxiety, depression, and other serious mental health problems.
About the Author
Jeffrey P. Kahn, M.D., is president of WorkPsych Associates, which provides executive assessment, development, coaching, and treatment as well as management, human resource, organizational, and benefits consultation for a wide range of corporations and individuals (www.WorkPsychCorp.com). He also is past president of the Academy of Organizational and Occupational Psychiatry and a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University in Manhattan. Alan M. Langlieb, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., has broad experience in increasing public awareness of mental health issues, especially in business and through the media. He is an assistant professor of psychiatry at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland.