Citation

Bamber M, McMahon R. Clin. Psychol. Psychother. 2008; 15(2): 96-112.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/cpp.564

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The schema-focused model of occupational stress and work dysfunctions (Bamber & Price, 2006; Bamber, 2006) hypothesizes that individuals with EMS (unconsciously) gravitate toward occupations with similar dynamics and structures to the toxic early environments and relationships that created them. They subsequently re-enact these EMS and their associated maladaptive coping styles in the workplace. For most individuals, this results in ‘schema healing’, but for some individuals with more rigid and severe EMS, schema healing is not achieved and the structures and relationships of the workplace, together with the utilization of maladaptive coping styles, serve to perpetuate their EMS. The model hypothesizes that it is these individuals who are most vulnerable to developing occupational stress syndromes