Robert S. Weiss

Bringing Work Stress Home

Work is the sector of life most productive of stress for middle-aged men in administrative and managerial occupations. Although marital problems and troubles with children can produce stress as intense as any stress produced at work, marriage and parenthood only infrequently give rise to stress at all. Administrative and managerial work, in contrast, foster stress so regularly that most men doing such work report at least one experience at work within the preceding month that led to persisting preoccupation and irritability, and many report at least one in the preceding year that resulted in difficulties in sleeping.

Principles underlying a manual for parents whose children were killed by a drunk driver.

The idea of the therapeutic manual is introduced. Principles are offered for writing material which may foster movement toward recovery among individuals who have experienced traumatic loss. An example of the application of these principles is provided in the form of a booklet for parents of children killed by drunken drivers.