Courses on work stress : a growing market, but what about their quality?

The purpose of this book is to present new research on the effectiveness of a variety of job stress intervention programs and applications. The results suggest ways in which individuals, organizations, and policymakers can help prevent stress before it affects mental health and job performance. Part one of the book deals with stress management training. The authors discuss a variety of types of worker training aimed at teaching workers the skills necessary to manage their responses to stressful situations. In part two the central item is coping with stress and unemployment. The object of part three is understanding and treating posttraumatic stress. The second section of this book contains two parts. In the first one the chapters are concerned with interventions at the job and organizational level, such as job redesign and organizational change efforts focusing on reducing or eliminating the source of stress in the work environment. In one chapter a case study is presented of a participatory approach to job redesign and stress reduction in the Dutch metal can industry. The last part of the book deals with policy and legislation concerning occupational stress.