The unconscious at work : individual and organizational stress in the human services

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Label

The unconscious at work : individual and organizational stress in the human services

Title remainder

individual and organizational stress in the human services

Statement of responsibility

by the members of the Tavistock Clinic "Consulting to Institutions" Workshop ; edited by Anton Obholzer and Vega Zagier Roberts

Contributor

• Obholzer, Anton, 1938-
• Tavistock Clinic "Consulting to Institutions" Workshop
• Roberts, Vega Zagier, 1948-

Editor

• Roberts, Vega Zagier, 1948-
• Obholzer, Anton, 1938-

Subject

• System theory
• Electronic books
• Group relations training
• Group relations training
• Health Personnel
• Health Personnel [MESH]
• Helfender Beruf
• Hulpverlening
• Human services personnel -- Job stress
• Human services personnel -- Job stress
• Human services personnel -- Psychology
• Human services personnel -- Psychology
• Institutional Practice
• Institutional Practice [MESH]
• Organisationspsychologie
• Organizational Culture
• Organizational Culture [MESH]
• Personnel Management
• Personnel Management [MESH]
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Social Work
• Stress
• Stress
• Stress, Psychological
• Stress, Psychological [MESH]
• System theory

Language

eng

Summary

"Working in the human services has always been stressful, and the current massive changes in the organization of these services in Britain and elsewhere have added to the stresses inherent in the work. The Unconscious at Work explores the difficulties experienced by managers and staff in a wide range of care settings, and investigates the unconscious processes that add greatly to the stress inevitable in caring work." "The authors, all past or present members of the Tavistock Clinic Consulting to Institutions Workshop, make use of ideas from psychoanalysis, open systems theory, Bion's work with groups, and group relations training. Drawing on their experience of consulting to individuals, teams and organizations, they distil what they have learned about institutional processes, and present this in an accessible and practical way. Each concept is introduced in as non-technical a way as possible, with examples from practice to make them recognizable and useful to the reader. Individual chapters develop themes relating to work with a particular client group or in a particular setting - including hospitals, schools, day centres, residential units, therapeutic communities and community care agencies. They also explore aspects of work organization - for example, the supervisory relationship, facing cuts and closure, and intergroup collaboration. In each situation the authors describe both the difficulties for which consultation was requested and their own feelings and thoughts while consulting to these institutions." "The Unconscious at Work is designed for people managing and working in the human services, and it offers readers new ways of looking at their own experiences of stress at work. It will greatly increase their understanding of the processes which can undermine effectiveness and morale, and will also be of value to consultants, trainers, and students of organizational behaviour."--Jacket

Member of

• Ebook Central Academic Complete

Cataloging source

MT4IT

Dewey number

361.3/01/9

Index

index present

Language note

English

LC call number

HV40.35

LC item number

.U53 1994eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

NLM call number

WM172

NLM item number

OBH