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This chapter provides an overview of the stakeholders in return to work processes and explores opportunities for multisystem interactions of persons and their organizations to support successful work resumption and transition. The current evidence and literature is briefly synthesized to elaborate on what is known about the stakeholder participation in return to work and the different types of interactions used among organizations and across systems to enact return to work processes for workers with injuries. In this chapter, five actions are offered to guide stakeholders in moving beyond the challenges of return to work and into collaborative interactions and implementing targeted solutions. Opportunities to advance a more transdisciplinary approach may serve to support occupationally just processes in the management of complex return to work.
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Shaw, L. (2016). Working with Stakeholders in Return to Work Processes: Multisystem Interactions. In: Schultz, I., Gatchel, R. (eds) Handbook of Return to Work. Handbooks in Health, Work, and Disability, vol 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7627-7_18
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