Stress management at work: By whom, for whom, and to what ends?

Reynolds, Shirley and Briner, Rob B. (1994) Stress management at work: By whom, for whom, and to what ends? British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 22 (1). pp. 75-89. ISSN 1469-3534

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Abstract

A critical overview is presented of workplace stress-management interventions. It is suggested that they have so far failed to deliver what they have promised. Evaluation studies fail to distinguish between the aims and objectives of primary prevention interventions, such as stress-management training, where potential benefits can only be assessed in terms of long-term outcomes, and secondary and tertiary interventions, such as counselling, where existing disorders are treated. Stress-management interventions are based on inadequate and oversimplistic theories which obscure the many conflicting interests of employees, employers and researchers, and ignore empirical evidence which suggests that individual well-being, attitudes to work, and work behaviours are minimally linked. It is suggested that alleviating the problems that people experience at work will remain elusive unless the conceptual problems in occupational stress are more fully acknowledged.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Psychological Sciences (former - to 2018)
Depositing User:	EPrints Services
Date Deposited:	25 Nov 2010 11:12
Last Modified:	16 Apr 2024 14:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/14566
DOI:	10.1080/03069889408253667

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