The occupational stress index : approach derived from cognitive ergonomics and brain research for clinical practice / / Karen Belkic

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910826493703321
• Autore: Belkic Karen <1952->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, : Cambridge International Science Pub., 2003
• ISBN: 1-280-36121-2; 9786610361212; 1-904602-39-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (299 p.)
• Disciplina: 158.7
• Soggetti: Job stress; Job stress - Testing
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: The Need for the Occupational Stress Index-An Approach Derived from 1. Cognitive Ergonomics and Brain Research for Clinical Practice -- 2. The Impact Of Stressful Work On Health -- The Job Strain Model -- The Effort Reward Imbalance Model -- Hypertension -- Repetitive Motion Injury/Musculo-Skeletal Disorders -- Adverse Mental Health Outcomes -- Occupations With Evidence of Risk for Adverse Stress-Related Health Outcomes -- Professional Drivers -- Health Care Professionals -- Teachers -- Air Transport Professionals -- 3. How Can Insights From Cognitive Ergonomics And Brain Research Inform Our Assessment Of The Work Environment? -- How we handle Information: A Neurophysiologic View -- Knowledge-Based versus Skill-Based Information Processing -- Threat Avoidant Vigilance -- The Conflict Dimension -- Physically Aversive Exposures -- 4. Occupation-Specific versus Generic Self-Report Measures To Assess Workplace Exposures -- The Occupational Stress Index: An Additive Burden Model To Help Bridge The Gap -- The Organization of the OSI -- 5. The Occupational Stress Index In Clinical Practice -- Preparing A Narrative Occupational History, which includes Psychosocial Stressors As This Informs A Work-Related Diagnostic And Management Plan -- An Approach to taking a Work History which includes Psychosocial Stressors, Based upon the OSI ; -- Part I: Occupational Histories Based upon the OSI: -- Physician Narrative History derived from the OSI for Physicians -- Narrative Occupational History: Derived from the Computer OSI -- Part II: Clinical Cases Based upon the OSI-derived Occupational Histories -- A. A 54-Year Old Neurologist-Psychiatrist Working In A Public Hospital -- B. A 43 Year-Old Male Long-Route Truck Driver.; C. A 51-Year Old Clerical Assistant To The Director Of A University Cancer Research Division -- D. 47 year-old Male Auto Assembler -- Assessment And Approach To Management: Answers To Questions From The Cases -- A. A 54-Year Old Neurologist-Psychiatrist Working In A Public Hospital -- B. 43 Year-Old Male Long-Route Truck Driver -- C. A 51-Year Old Adminstrative Assistant At A University Cancer Research Division -- D. 47 year-old Male Auto Assembler -- 6. The Revised OSI Questionnaires and Score Sheets -- REVISED GENERIC OSI SCORE SHEET -- Revised Version of the OSI for Professional Drivers 2002-2003 -- REVISED DRIVER OSI SCORE SHEET: 2002-2003 -- THE WORKING CONDITIONS OF PHYSICIANS -- THE WORKING CONDITIONS OF TEACHERS -- OSI FOR TEACHERS SCORE SHEET -- 7. Conclusions and Future Perspectives -- BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES.
• Sommario/riassunto: Of interest to occupational health psychologists, industrial hygienists, ergonomists, as well as to labor and management, inter alia, the Occupational Stress Index can also be integrated with objective measurements and expert observer assessment of job characteristics. In particular, the OSI could detect areas for which in-depth observational analysis is needed, especially with a view to possibilities for practical improvements in the work environment.