Focuses on the clinical and occupational intervention processes enabling workers to return to their jobs and sustain employment after injury or serious illness as well as ideas for improving the wide range of outcomes of entry and re-entry into the workplace. Information is accessible along key theoretical, research, and interventive lines, emphasizing evidence-informed approaches to return to work and stay at work planning and implementation, in the context of disability prevention. Condition-specific chapters detail best return to work and stay at work practices across diverse medical and psychological diagnoses, from musculoskeletal disorders to cancer, from TBI to PTSD. 

Featured topics include: Understanding motivation to return to work: economy of gains and losses; Overcoming barriers to return to work: behavioural and cultural change; Program evaluation in return to work; Working with stakeholders in return to work processes; Motivational interviewing for enhanced return to work; Return to work after major limb loss; Improving work outcomes among cancer survivors; Return to work in serious mental illness; Return to work among women with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome.