The Unconscious at Work: Individual and Organizational Stress in the Human Services - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415102065 ISBN 13: 9780415102063

Verlag: Routledge, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

Working in the human services has always been stressful, and the current massive changes in the organization of these services, together with dwindling resources and ever greater demands for cost effectiveness, add to the stresses inherent in the work. Even in the best run and best resourced organizations there are pockets of irrationality where unconscious institutional processes undermine both effectiveness and morale.
The contributors to this book use ideas drawn from psychoanalysis, open systems theory, Bion's work with groups, and group relations training to explore the difficulties experienced by managers and staff in a wide range of care settings. Each concept is illustrated with examples from practice to make it recognizable and useful to the reader.
Each chapter develops a theme relating to work with a particular client group or setting (including hospitals, schools, day centres, residential units, community services and many others), or explores aspects of work organization (for example, the supervisory relationship, facing cuts and closure, or intergroup collaboration). By describing both the difficulties and their own feelings and thoughts while consulting to these institutions, the authors offer the reader new ways of looking at their own experiences at work which will be both enlightening and helpful.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0415102065
• ISBN 13: 9780415102063
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 248
• Herausgeber: Obholzer Anton
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