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Day treatment of patients with severe work-related complaints
A day treatment program was developed for patients suffering with severe work-related complaints who were unable to function at work because of this. The program consisted of a number of treatment modalities, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, protocolized nonverbal therapies, and activation....
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Dove Medical Press
2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3378180/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22715319 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/PRBM.S31032 |
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author | Meesters, Ybe Horwitz, Ernst H van Velzen, Carol JM |
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description | A day treatment program was developed for patients suffering with severe work-related complaints who were unable to function at work because of this. The program consisted of a number of treatment modalities, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, protocolized nonverbal therapies, and activation. The main objective of all these therapies was to analyze participants’ personal qualities and vulnerabilities when functioning at work and to teach them new coping strategies and social skills to reduce their vulnerability in stressful situations. The results of the program were assessed in terms of scores on a number of self-rating questionnaires and hours spent at work. In a follow-up assessment one year after the original program had finished, we found a significant reduction in complaints and an increase in the number of hours spent on the job. At the start of the program, patients worked 25.2% of their contracted hours; a year later, this had increased to 77.3%. Even though this natural field study has its limitations, the results of the day treatment program seem very promising. |
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spelling | pubmed-33781802012-06-19 Day treatment of patients with severe work-related complaints Meesters, Ybe Horwitz, Ernst H van Velzen, Carol JM Psychol Res Behav Manag Original Research A day treatment program was developed for patients suffering with severe work-related complaints who were unable to function at work because of this. The program consisted of a number of treatment modalities, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, protocolized nonverbal therapies, and activation. The main objective of all these therapies was to analyze participants’ personal qualities and vulnerabilities when functioning at work and to teach them new coping strategies and social skills to reduce their vulnerability in stressful situations. The results of the program were assessed in terms of scores on a number of self-rating questionnaires and hours spent at work. In a follow-up assessment one year after the original program had finished, we found a significant reduction in complaints and an increase in the number of hours spent on the job. At the start of the program, patients worked 25.2% of their contracted hours; a year later, this had increased to 77.3%. Even though this natural field study has its limitations, the results of the day treatment program seem very promising. Dove Medical Press 2012-05-31 /pmc/articles/PMC3378180/ /pubmed/22715319 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/PRBM.S31032 Text en © 2012 Meesters et al, publisher and licensee Dove Medical Press Ltd. This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Research Meesters, Ybe Horwitz, Ernst H van Velzen, Carol JM Day treatment of patients with severe work-related complaints |
title | Day treatment of patients with severe work-related complaints |
title_full | Day treatment of patients with severe work-related complaints |
title_fullStr | Day treatment of patients with severe work-related complaints |
title_full_unstemmed | Day treatment of patients with severe work-related complaints |
title_short | Day treatment of patients with severe work-related complaints |
title_sort | day treatment of patients with severe work-related complaints |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3378180/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22715319 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/PRBM.S31032 |
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