Post-traumatic stress disorder, work-related

The DSM-IV-TR manual (American Psychiatric Association 2000) uses anxiety as a general term for a range of more specific anxiety disorders, which includes panic attacks, generalized anxiety disorder, specific phobias, social phobias, obsessive compulsive disorder and post traumatic stress disorder. However there is currently no literature applying these criteria to work and career anxiety, and nothing in the DSM-IV-TR which relates these disorders specifically to the work situation. Thus, the present chapter extrapolates the existing classifications of anxiety to the workplace from other settings. 

Cross-situational anxiety differs from the situation-specific anxiety described in the previous chapter, in that it involves multiple anxieties and worries that affect performance across a wide range of work and non-work-related situations and tasks. Examples of cross-situational anxiety include disorders such as uncued panic attacks, agoraphobia, generalized social phobia and generalized anxiety disorder (American Psychiatric Association [APA] 2000). The treatment of panic attacks and phobias was discussed in the previous chapter. This chapter thus focuses on the formulation and treatment of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). GAD warrants specific attention since it requires quite a different CBT treatment approach from the other forms of anxiety already mentioned. Two other anxiety syndromes which have been found to be particularly prevalent among health workers, namely post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and health anxiety, are also discussed in this chapter. 

There are two other work-related anxiety syndromes which have been found to be particularly prevalent among health workers. These are post-traumatic stress disorder and health anxiety. The rest of this chapter looks at the cognitive behavioural treatment of these two anxiety syndromes. 

I. Work-related psychological disorders include a heterogeneous mix of diagnoses. Of these, post-traumatic stress disorder and mass psychogenic... 

In addition to those directly affected, work colleagues and other witnesses of any serious work-related injury are proven to be susceptible to a number of related physiological disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). 

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