Roles of Psychiatrists and Psychosomatic Physicians in the Mental Health Support to Workers(Preventive Activities for Mental Health of Workers : From the Perspective of Psychosomatic Medicine)

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  • 精神科医・心療内科医の勤労者メンタルヘルス支援における役割(勤労者のメンタルヘルスに関する予防活動-心身医学的な視点から-,2011年,第52回日本心身医学会総会ならびに学術講演会(横浜))
  • 精神科医・心療内科医の勤労者メンタルヘルス支援における役割
  • セイシンカイ ・ シンリョウナイカイ ノ キンロウシャ メンタル ヘルス シエン ニ オケル ヤクワリ

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There have been more than thirty thousand suicides annually in Japan since 1998, and the background for this is considered to be the global economic structural reform due to the information and telecommunication (IT) revolution. This reform has brought about substantial changes in the mode of work, sense of values, the way communication ought to be and the like of workers, so that mental health problems of wage earners have become diversified. Mental health problem-related costs have also increased and become an important issue for the management. Present-day mental health care is not merely confined to the care of workers bearing mental health problems, but has to be pro-actively grappled with as a task of the organization, under the purview of mental health management. Industrial physicians concerned with mental health are required to have broad interests in various pertinent aspects and a perceptive insight about personnel labor relations management, operations, contents of service, corporate social responsibility (CSR), laws and regulations. Such an approach from multiple viewpoints is the starting point of psychosomatic medicine, and psychosomatic medicine and occupational mental health profoundly overlap with each other in essence. Thus, much is anticipated for psychiatrists and psychosomatic physicians.

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