Occupational Stress in the Service Professions

Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Contributors......Page 13
CHAPTER ONE Introduction:Context, Theories and Intervention......Page 16
CHAPTER TWO The DISC Model: Demand-Induced Strain Compensation Mechanisms in Job Stress......Page 58
CHAPTER THREE Measurement and Methodological Issues in Work Stress Research......Page 90
CHAPTER FOUR Conventional Wisdom is Often Misleading: Police Stress Within an Organisational Health Framework......Page 118
CHAPTER FIVE Burnout Among Oncology Care Providers: Radiation Assistants, Physicians and Nurses......Page 158
CHAPTER SIX Senior Nurses: Interventions to Reduce Work Stress......Page 184
CHAPTER SEVEN Work Stress and its Effects in General Practitioners......Page 206
CHAPTER EIGHT Teacher Stress......Page 228
CHAPTER NINE Stress in University Academics......Page 252
CHAPTER TEN Prostitution: An Illustration of Occupational Stress in ‘Dirty Work’......Page 276
CHAPTER ELEVEN Social Workers and Human Service Practitioners......Page 296
CHAPTER TWELVE Clergy in Crisis......Page 326
CHAPTER THIRTEEN Stress in Psychological Work......Page 374
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Volunteering Work Stress and Satisfaction at the Turn of the 21st Century......Page 404
CHAPTER FIFTEEN Conclusion......Page 424
Index......Page 432