Psychiatric illness and the workplace: Perspectives for occupational medicine in the military

From: Military Medicine | Date: June 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

In inpatient psychiatric wards and outpatient mental health clinics throughout the military, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals are often faced with patients suffering from emotional distress attributed to occupational stress. There has been scant research into how the routine military work environment affects the mental health status of military employees. This paper provides a review of the occupational medicine literature on the relationship between the work environment and employee mental health. There is a growing recognition that stress resulting from the workplace can ...

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