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An expert in retirement issues, aging, and social work shows how workaholics who have been downsized, forced into retirement, or burned out on their current jobs can remain actively engaged in meaningful projects and maintain their happiness.
A practical guide for workers who have been downsized or forced to take retirement before they're ready,
Retirement for Workaholics: Life after Work in a Downsized Economy explains workaholic behavior, why it develops, and what can be done about it. Rather than taking a negative approach to work addictions, the book provides a sympathetic and logical way of understanding and coping.
Organized around research explaining work addictions and the problems workaholics have coping with retirement, the book also includes numerous personal stories from workaholics and case studies of work-addicted individuals. These stories illustrate the effects of work addiction on self, friends, and loved ones, as well as how people have dealt with the overwhelming need to work. More positively, it offers concrete suggestions for dealing with postretirement issues, such as loneliness, boredom, and substance abuse, and for finding satisfaction and fulfillment whether through volunteer activities, a new career, or the pursuit of previously shelved passions.
List of contents
PrefaceI. Understanding Work-Addicted Behavior1 Introduction: Hard Worker or Workaholic?
2 Descriptions of Workaholics
3 The Physical and Emotional Impact of Work Addiction
4 The 10 Irrational Ideas That Get Workaholics into Emotional Difficulty
II. Preretirement Planning5 Are You Ready to Retire?
6 Developing a Preretirement Plan
III. The Retirement Decision7 Involving Family Members in Retirement Decisions
8 The Decision to Retire
IV. After Retirement: Repairing the Impact of Work Addiction on Physical and Mental Health9 Loneliness
10 Anxiety and Depression
11 Substance Abuse
12 Health
V. After Retirement: Repairing Personal Relationships with Family and Loved Ones13 Repairing Intimate Relationships
14 Repairing Relationships with Family and Friends
VI. After Retirement: Work Opportunities and Dealing with Leisure Time15 Cycling Back to Work and Dealing with Leisure Time
VII. Changing Work-Addicted Behavior16 Professional Help to Treat Work Addictions
17 Final Words
IndexAbout the Author
About the author
Morley D. Glickenis on the faculty at Arizona State University in Phoenix, AZ, and is the executive director of the Institute for Personal Growth, a training, research, and practice cooperative in Prescott, AZ, where he lives and works.
