Occupational therapists commonly work with children with autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit disorder, learning disabilities, and other developmental disorders. Although many of these children have difficulties with sensory integration, they also may have trauma or attachment disorders that may or may not be formally identified. Early childhood trauma includes early loss or lack of cons...

Occupational stress is a known health risk for a range of psychological, behavioral, and medical disorders and diseases. Organizations and individuals can mitigate these disorders through preventive stress management and enhanced wellbeing. This article addresses, first, the known health risk evidence related to occupational stress; second, the use of preventive stress management in organizatio...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that poor material standard of living is independently associated with the prevalence of the common mental disorders after adjusting for occupational social class, and to estimate the population impact of poor material standard of living on the prevalence of these disorders. DESIGN Cross sectional survey. Prevalence of the common mental disorders was ass...

background: cotton is the main agricultural export product in benin. cotton dust is thus present in the air during the handling and processing of cotton. this dust contains a mixture of substances including ground up plant matter, fibres, bacteria, fungi, soil, pesticides, noncotton matter, and other contaminants. while cotton processing is decreasing in industrialized countries, it is increasi...