“PSICOPATOLOGÍAS LABORALES”

Abstract

Today, hundreds of workers within an organization are faced with multiple work situations that can lead to stress and maladaptive behaviors that have negative effects on one's personal and professional lives. The demands of modern life and the labor market in recent years have been consuming the physical-mental energy of the employee, which has the effect of minimizing performance and commitment to perform the functions of the job. Many studies show the relationship between the psychosocial conditions and the mental health of the worker, especially when the combination of low control in the subject and high labor demands carry a series of mental illnesses. Mental disorders such as depression and anxiety turn out to be very influential negatives as to impede the quality of life and disrupt the required functional capacity at work. The objective of this article is to define the most frequent mental illnesses or psychopathologies, explaining each one, for which the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" (DSM) and other studies have been used. Contributed relevant information for the realization ofthis article. It was found to offer healthy jobs with growth benefits for the individual as well as for the company itself.