Work, personality and mental health

Mental Health and Work : Mental Health and Work: Norway

Executive summary Assessment and recommendations Chapter 1. Mental health and work challenges in Norway Chapter 2. Reconsidering Norwegian sickness absence policies Chapter 3. Revising disability benefit assessment procedures and eligibility criteria in Norway Chapter 4. Enhancing the effectiveness of Norway’s vocational rehabilitation system Chapter 5. Involving mental health care in Norway in...

Mental Health and Social Work

Personality disorder and public mental health.

The diagnosis of personality disorder often appears to tell as much about the diagnoser as the diagnosed. For many it describes those who are deemed personally offensive, and as such it is not so much a diagnosis as a value judgment, the product of a negative interaction between two people that is given spurious respectability by a medical label. It is argued that these attitudes constitute a d...

Personality and Mental Health of Psychiatry Residents

The clinician-patient relationship is more intense in the field of psychiatry than in other specialities of medicine. In this context, an understanding of the personality assets and liabilities of a psychiatrist takes on special significance. In the present comparative cross-sectional study, the personality profile, positive mental health characteristics and empathy were studied in two groups o...

Personality traits and mental health treatment utilization.

Recent theory and research suggest a relation between five-factor model personality traits and mental health treatment utilization, even after controlling for psychiatric disorders and global functioning. The current report further tests this hypothesis in a large clinical sample, using a wider array of treatment modalities than has been previously studied. Overall, results were limited and inc...