Acute Stress at Work

International Handbook of Work and Health Psychology, Third Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 269-291

  Kleber, Rolf J ^a   Van Der Velden, Peter G ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Institute for Psychotrauma   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acute stress and nature of stressor playing a dominant role; Acute stress at work; Adequate psychosocial crisis management; Core beliefs or basic assumptions illusions being shattered; Extreme experiences in work and confrontations with violence or accidents; Intervention programme for victimized employees; Long term disturbances; Process of coping with acute stress; Scientific approaches to job stress; Self Rating Scale for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (SRS PTSD)

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957868146     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470682357.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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