Handbook of Return to Work: From Research to Practice by Izabela Z. Schultz (Eng

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This comprehensive interdisciplinary synthesis focuses on the clinical and occupational intervention processes enabling workers to return to their jobs and sustain employment after injury or serious illness as well as ideas for improving the wide range of outcomes of entry and re-entry into the workplace. Information is accessible along key theoretical, research, and interventive lines, emphasizing a palette of evidence-informed approaches to return to work and stay at work planning and implementation, in the context of disability prevention. Condition-specific chapters detail best return to work and stay at work practices across diverse medical and psychological diagnoses, from musculoskeletal disorders to cancer, from TBI to PTSD. The resulting collection bridges the gap between research evidence and practice and gives readers necessary information from a range of critical perspectives. Among the featured topics:Understanding motivation to return to work: economy of gains and losses.Overcoming barriers to return to work: behavioral and cultural change.Program evaluation in return to work: an integrative framework.Working with stakeholders in return to work processes.Return to work after major limb loss.Improving work outcomes among cancer survivors.Return to work among women with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome. The Handbook of Return to Work is an invaluable, unique and comprehensive resource for health, rehabilitation, clinical, counselling and industrial psychologists, rehabilitation specialists, occupational and physical therapists, family and primary care physicians, psychiatrists and physical medicine and rehabilitation as well as occupational medicine specialists, case and disability managers and human resource professionals. Academics and researchers across these fields will also find expert guidance and direction in these pages. It is an essential reading for all return to work and stay at work stakeholders.

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This comprehensive interdisciplinary synthesis focuses on the clinical and occupational intervention processes enabling workers to return to their jobs and sustain employment after injury or serious illness as well as ideas for improving the wide range of outcomes of entry and re-entry into the workplace. Information is accessible along key theoretical, research, and interventive lines, emphasizing a palette of evidence-informed approaches to return to work and stay at work planning and implementation, in the context of disability prevention. Condition-specific chapters detail best return to work and stay at work practices across diverse medical and psychological diagnoses, from musculoskeletal disorders to cancer, from TBI to PTSD. The resulting collection bridges the gap between research evidence and practice and gives readers necessary information from a range of critical perspectives. Among the featured topics: Understanding motivation to return to work: economy of gains and losses. Overcoming barriers to return to work: behavioral and cultural change. Program evaluation in return to work: an integrative framework. Working with stakeholders in return to work processes. Return to work after major limb loss. Improving work outcomes among cancer survivors. Return to work among women with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome. The Handbook of Return to Work is an invaluable, unique and comprehensive resource for health, rehabilitation, clinical, counselling and industrial psychologists, rehabilitation specialists, occupational and physical therapists, family and primary care physicians, psychiatrists and physical medicine and rehabilitation as well as occupational medicine specialists, case and disability managers and human resource professionals. Academics and researchers across these fields will also find expert guidance and direction in these pages. It is an essential reading for all return to work and stay at work stakeholders.

Author Biography

Dr. Izabela Z. Schultz is Professor of Rehabilitation Psychology and Director of Graduate Program in Vocational Rehabilitation Counselling in the Department of Educational and Counselling and Special Education at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Schultz is doubly board certified as diplomate in clinical psychology, American Board of Professional Psychology and as diplomate of the American Board of Vocational Experts. She has received international awards for her innovative research on prediction of occupational disability and professional leadership awards for major contributions to medico-legal aspects of rehabilitation psychology. She has published several books and numerous seminal papers and book chapters in the field of occupational disability and rehabilitation. She is an editor of the Work and Disability Section of Springer's Psychological Injury and the Law and a founding member of this international journal. Recently, she completed, with Dr. Sally Rogers, thepioneering Work Accommodation and Retention in Mental Health (Springer). Dr. Schultz is also a co-chair of the American Psychological Association's Task Force on Assessment and Treatment of Persons with Disabilities. She has been leading development of best-evidence-informed practice guidelines in early musculoskeletal pain interventions, in work accommodation and retention in mental health, and in assessment and treatment of persons with disabilities.Dr. Robert Gatchel is the Nancy P. & John G. Penson Endowed Professor of Clinical Health Psychology and the Chairman of Psychology, College of Science at the University of Texas at Arlington. He also holds two other positions: clinical research director at the Eugene McDermott Center for Pain Management at the University of Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, and director of biopsychosocial research at the University of North Texas Health Science Center. He is the author 23 books, 106 book chapters and 318 scientific research articles. His clinical research, most of it in the areas of the etiology, assessment and treatment of pain and disability, has been continuously funded over the past 30 years from grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He also received a prestigious Research Scientist Award from NIH and has been honored with awards from various organizations such as the American Psychological Association, the American Pain Society, the American Academy of Pain Management, the International Association for Dental Research, the International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine, the North American Spine Society, to name a few.

Table of Contents

Preface.- Impairment, Disability and Return to Work.- Current Models of Return to Work.- Concept of Margin of Maneuver in Return to Work.- Understanding Motivation to Return to Work: Economy of Gains and Losses.- Readiness to Return to Work and Self-efficacy.- Social Organization of Return to Work at the Workplace.- Health System Coverage, Benefit Design and Return to Work.- PART 2: MEASUREMENT AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES: TOWARDS TRANSDISCIPLINARITY.- Integrative Conceptual Framework for Barriers and Facilitators in Return to Work Intervention Planning.- Measurement of Return to Work and Stay at Work Outcomes.- Measurement and Assessment Challenges in Risk Identification and Prediction of Return to Work.- Methodological Issues in Return to Work Intervention Research.- Program Evaluation in Return to Work.- Functional Assessment and Measurement of Work Limitations.- PART 3: EVIDENCE-BASED RETURN TO WORK APPROACHES.- Integration of Clinical and Occupational Interventions.- Early Intervention.- Work Accommodations.- Workplace-Based Interventions.- Working with the Stakeholders: Multisystem Interaction.- Participatory Ergonomics.- Cognitive- Behavioral Approach in Return to Work.- Motivational Interviewing and Return to Work.- Disability Management.- Organizational Policies and Practices.- PART 4: BEST RETURN TO WORK INTERVENTIONS AND PRACTICES IN KEY DIAGNOSES.- Return to Work in Musculoskeletal Disorders.- Return to Work among Women with Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.- Return to Work in Cancer.- Return to Work in Depression and Anxiety.- Return to Work in Serious Mental Illness.- Return to Work in Mild Cognitive Disorders.- Return to Work in Moderate to Severe Brain Injury.- Return to Work in Spinal Cord Injury.- PART 5: RESEARCH, POLICY AND PRACTICE DIRECTIONS.- Future Research, Policy and Practice Directions.

Long Description

This comprehensive interdisciplinary synthesis focuses on the clinical and occupational intervention processes enabling workers to return to their jobs and sustain employment after injury or serious illness as well as ideas for improving the wide range of outcomes of entry and re-entry into the workplace. Information is accessible along key theoretical, research, and interventive lines, emphasizing a palette of evidence-informed approaches to return to work and stay at work planning and implementation, in the context of disability prevention. Condition-specific chapters detail best return to work and stay at work practices across diverse medical and psychological diagnoses, from musculoskeletal disorders to cancer , from TBI to PTSD. The resulting collection bridges the gap between research evidence and practice and gives readers necessary information from a range of critical perspectives. Among the featured topics: Understanding motivation to return to work: economy of gains and losses. Overcoming barriers to return to work: behavioral and cultural change. Program evaluation in return to work: an integrative framework. Working with stakeholders in return to work processes. Return to work after major limb loss. Improving work outcomes among cancer survivors. Return to work among women with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome. The Handbook of Return to Work is an invaluable, unique and comprehensive resource for health,rehabilitation, clinical, counselling and industrial psychologists, rehabilitation specialists, occupational and physical therapists, family, primary care physicians, psychiatrists and physical medicine and rehabilitation as well as occupational medicine specialists, case and disability managers and human resource professionals. Academics and researchers across these fields will also find expert guidance and direction in these pages. It is an essential reading for all return to work and stay at work stakeholders.

Feature

Vast and disparate literature of global clinical, social and economic interest which has not yet been integrated No book devoted to return to work currently exists in the international literature Outcome-oriented and evidence-based best practice and policy recommendations provided

Details ISBN1489978178 Pages 721 Year 2016 ISBN-10 1489978178 ISBN-13 9781489978172 Format Paperback Publication Date 2016-08-23 Imprint Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Subtitle From Research to Practice Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Edited by Robert J. Gatchel DEWEY 613 Short Title Handbook of Return to Work Language English Series Number 1 AU Release Date 2016-08-23 NZ Release Date 2016-08-23 US Release Date 2016-08-23 UK Release Date 2016-08-23 Author Robert J. Gatchel Narrator Paul Panting Birth 1945 Affiliation Georgia Institute of Technology Position Kranzberg Professor Qualifications J.D. Publisher Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Edition Description Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016 Series Handbooks in Health, Work, and Disability Alternative 9781489976260 Audience Professional & Vocational Illustrations XVIII, 721 p. We've got this

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