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Application of a Systems Approach to the Rehabilitation Assessment of Clients with an Occupational Stress-Related Injury

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 August 2015

Leonie Nowland
Leonie Nowland*
Affiliation:
Commonwealth Rehabilitation Service
*
OH&S Unit, Commonwealth Rehabilitation Service, GPO Box 9848, Sydney NSW 2001, Australia.
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Abstract

Occupational stress has become a critical issue for many organisations and individuals in terms of costs to productivity and health. Effective rehabilitation intervention can markedly reduce these costs, yet a successful return to work is often fraught with difficulty due to the plethora of issues contained under the heading of occupational stress. An approach to case analysis and individual assessment has been developed in New South Wales, Australia to assist case managers employed by the Commonwealth Rehabilitation Service in the provision of efficacious rehabilitation programs, with the focus on return to work, for individuals with occupational stress.

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The Australian Journal of Rehabilitation Counselling , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , 1997 , pp. 9 - 20
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

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