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As a society, we have gone to great lengths to see that the citizens of our society receive at least a basic education in reading, communications, and mathematics. These efforts are an attempt to assist our citizens in becoming better adjusted and productive members of society. Yet we have spent considerably less time and effort in helping our citizens develop a far more basic skill, the ability to cope with everyday life, especially the pressure associated with earning a living. The National Conference on Health Promotion Programs in Occupational Settings sponsored by the U.S. Public Health Service in 1979 recommended that occupational stress-management programs should be an integral part of any occupational health-promotion endeavor. The purpose of this discussion is to review the concept of occupational stress and to offer a basic framework for the development of occupational stress-management programs.
Even the most cost-conscious society should recognize that money spent on human capital is the single most important investment it can make.
Newsweek, October 18, 1982
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Everly, G.S. (1989). Occupational Stress and Its Management. In: A Clinical Guide to the Treatment of the Human Stress Response. The Plenum Series on Stress and Coping. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0741-9_18
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