psychosocial factors affecting managers and their employees

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photo by Rob Kall,
taken immediately after Keynoting at AAPB

Töres Theorell is Scientific counselor with Stockholm University Stress Research Institute. He is an emeritus Professor in Psychosocial Environmental Medicine, especially Occupational Medicine at the Carolinska institute. He was director of Sweden's National Institute for Psychosocial Factors in Health, under the Swedish Ministry of Healthcare.  www.stressforskning.su.se

Dr. Theorell reported on a series of studies which looked at the effect of training managers and how that training affected employees, in terms of numerous psychosocial factors, stress hormone levels, sick leave and myocardial infarction (MI) risk.

This is a big deal affecting worker risk of death and employer bottom line.

Authors Bio:

One theme has run through my work for the past 40 plus years-- a desire to play a role in waking people up, raising their consciousness and empowering them.
I was the organizer founder of the Winter Brain, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology and StoryCon Meetings and president of Futurehealth, Inc., with interests in Positive Psychology as well as being involved in the field of biofeedback/neurofeedback since 1972.
see my more detailed bio, reflecting my work in biofeedback, here.

In 2003 I founded www.OpEdNews.com , where I've written over 1800 articles and have published over 100,000 other people's writings, with the goal of raising people's consciousness in political and activist ways.