industrial psychiatry

industrial psychiatry
the branch of psychiatry concerned with the diagnosis and prevention of mental illness in the work setting, including aspects of absenteeism, accident proneness, personnel policies, occupational fatigue, substance abuse, vocational adjustment, retirement, interpersonal relations, and related phenomena.

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