Understanding Mental Health Treatment-Seeking in High Stress Occupations

Contemporary Occupational Health Psychology: Global Perspectives on Research and Practice

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 57-73

  Britt, Thomas W ^a   McFadden, Anna C ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decisions, in seeking treatment; Employees, refraining from seeking mental health treatment; Employees, seeking treatment; High stress occupations; Individual determinants of treatment seeking; Individual, organizational determinants; Mental health problems; Mental health, and treatment seeking; Resiliency based traits of independence, self reliance; Tripartite models of prevention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886127481     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119942849.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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