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1. Health Promotion In The Workplace by Michael P.
O'Donnell, Thomson Delmar Learning
This comprehensive academic text covers the importance
of health promotion programs; the process of designing,
managing and evaluating programs; the positive effects
such programs can have on employees and the workplace;
the physical and emotional services these programs can
offer; and major issues, such as factors affecting older
workers and retirees and the emerging global
perspective, impacting the health promotion field. Ideal
as a text for students in undergraduate and graduate
level health promotion programs or as a reference for
managers and consultants in the health promotion and/or
human resource fields. Includes chapters on fitness,
nutrition, tobacco control and cessation, stress
management, medical self care, and social/spiritual
health. .
2. Mental Health and Productivity in the Workplace: A
Handbook for Organizations and Clinicians by Jeffrey P.
Kahn, Alan M. Langlieb, Hardcover, Jossey-Bass
A comprehensive and practical guide to identifying,
understanding, preventing, and resolving individual and
organizational mental health problems in the workplace.
This edition represents the most current thinking in the
field and contains contributions from an expert panel of
organizational and occupational psychiatrists. The book
focuses on problems that start "at the top" (executive
dysfunction) as well as on the effects of organizational
structure, office politics, chronic change, downsizing
and employment uncertainty, office wide emotional
crises, and aspects of organizational development. In
addition, this helpful resource includes information
about such basic issues as anxiety, stress, burnout,
depression, drug and alcohol abuse, violence, and
psychosis.
3. Managing Health at Work: A Guide for Managers and
Workplace Health Specialists, by Carol Wilkinson,
Hardcover, Publisher: E & FN Spon
Reviewing recent developments in the field of workplace
health from a practical point of view, this book
provides essential guidance in managing health at work,
and gives specific examples of good practice.
4. Handbook of Mental Health in the Workplace, by Jay
C. Thomas, Hardcover, SAGE Publications
Explores how psychological disorders impact the ability
to work and recommends treatments and their likely side
effects. It is designed to give the mental health
clinician, I/O psychologist, and human resources manager
the information they need to determine the employee's
fitness for work and what, if any, accommodations may be
needed. Graduate students and professors in psychology
and management will also find this a valuable reference.
5. Protecting Youth at Work: Health, Safety, and
Development of Working Children and Adolescents in the
United States, by Committee on the Health and Safety
Implications of Child Labor, Hardcover, National
Academies Press
Takes a look at what is known about work done by
children and adolescents and the effects of that work on
their physical and emotional health and social
functioning. Discusses special issues for minority and
disadvantaged youth, young workers in agriculture, and
children who work in family-owned businesses. For policy
makers, teachers, legislators, and parents.
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