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1Chair of Social & Environmental Psychology, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland. awkwiatek@op.pl
Abstract:
The unemployment in Poland has recently achieved, and stabilized at, quite a high level. Therefore, the development of psychotherapeutic tools aimed at supporting the unemployed has become an issue of great importance. The number of persons seeking professional help at outpatient mental clinics due to psychosomatic disorders linked to job loss has been sharply on the rise. These patients present with sleep disorders, dysphoric mood changes, sustained somatic pains, lack of goal and satisfaction in life, and the like. This article shows, as exemplified on individual cases and group therapies, the patient's work-up and also the types of activities from the border of medicine and psychology to support the mental state of the unemployed.
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