TY  - JOUR
A1  - Muschalla, Beate
T1  - Different work capacity impairments in patients with different work-anxieties
JF  - International archives of occupational and environmental health
N2  - Purpose Persons with work-anxieties are especially endangered for work capacity impairment and sick leave. Work capacity impairment is not directly due to symptoms but due to illness-related capacity disorders. Work capacity impairments can be described on different dimensions (e.g., social interaction, decision making and judgment, endurance, mobility). Understanding the type of work capacity impairment is important for reintegration interventions. This is the first study to investigate work capacity impairment in risk patients with different work-anxieties. Results Patients with different work-anxieties were impaired in different capacity dimensions: Work-related social anxiety went along with clinically relevant impairment in capacity of assertiveness (M = 2.40), anxiety of insufficiency went along with impaired capacity of endurance (M = 2.20), and work-related generalized worrying was accompanied by impairment in the capacity for decision making (M = 1.82). Specific capacity impairment dimensions were related to sick leave duration, while a global work ability prognosis was not. Conclusions The capacity approach is useful to describe work impairment more precisely and beyond symptoms. On this basis, reintegration-focusing interventions such as capacity training (e.g., social interaction training) or work adjustment (e.g., reducing exposure with interactional work tasks) can be initiated.
KW  - Work ability
KW  - Work-anxiety
KW  - Sick leave
KW  - Impairment
KW  - Mental disorders
KW  - ICF
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00420-015-1099-x
SN  - 0340-0131
SN  - 1432-1246
VL  - 89
SP  - 609
EP  - 619
PB  - Springer
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Muschalla, Beate
T1  - Capacity-oriented behavior therapy in mental disorders
JF  - Verhaltenstherapie
N2  - Capacity-Oriented Behavior Therapy in Mental Disorders Mental disorders come along with the impairment of activities and capacities of daily live. Behavior therapy often uses capacity trainings for improving compensatory behavior, beside symptom reduction as such. This article gives an overview on how behavior therapy techniques can be used to improve compensatory behavior in different capacity domains that were conceptually derived from the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) and which are often impaired in mental disorders.
KW  - Capacities
KW  - Capacity disorders
KW  - Mental disorders
KW  - ICF
KW  - Behavior therapy
Y1  - 2014
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1159/000358737
SN  - 1016-6262
SN  - 1423-0402
VL  - 24
IS  - 1
SP  - 48
EP  - 55
PB  - Karger
CY  - Basel
ER  -