Full Description
From childhood to millennials and beyond, it is essential we take a life-course approach to occupation and work when in pain. Written by experts in the field, Work and pain: A lifespan development approach provides an authoritative summary and analysis of the relationship between all forms of occupation and pain.
Divided into three sections, 'Foundations', provides a critical account of the nature of work and of pain. The next section, 'Investigations', analyses the bi-directional relationships between children living with chronic pain and parents; between being a child in pain and schooling; what it is to be a millennial in pain; the implications of pain which is determined to be occupational in origin; and enabling a life lived well with pain as one ages. The final section, 'Interventions', critically reviews what individuals can change, what workplaces can do, and how governments can innovate to try to maximise workability for people living with pain in the context of current working practices.
Work and pain: A lifespan development approach investigates and guides the reader on understanding how and why people seek to be occupied, and how we can maximise their social and personal involvement when living with ongoing pain, suggesting ways forward in research, practice, and policy.
Contents
Section 1 Foundations
1 Introduction Elaine Wainwright and Christopher Eccleston
2 A socio- historical account of work: Change, continuity, and the consequences Michael Calnan and Tom Douglass
3 Chronic pain across the life span Elaine Wainwright
Section 2 Investigations
4 Parenting in the context of chronic pain Abbie Jordan and Tiina Jaaniste
5 The impact of chronic pain on school functioning in young people Line Caes and Deirdre Logan
6 Emerging adulthood: Millennials, work, and pain Emma Fisher and Christopher Eccleston
7 Workers with occupational pain Jos Verbeek
8 Lives lived longer: Chronic pain, subjective well- being, and occupation Christopher Eccleston
Section 3 Interventions
9 The psychology of pain- related disability: Implications for intervention Michael J. L. Sullivan, Stephania Donayre Pimentel, and Catherine Paré
10 Managing pain- related limitations in the workplace: The role of the employer Chris J. Main and William S. Shaw
11 Pain, employment, and policy Stephen Bevan
12 Discussion Elaine Wainwright and Christopher Eccleston
Index
