[Prevention and treatment of mental disorders in the workplace: staged spectrum of care].

Mental disorders connected with work stress are of growing importance for the health care system. Following a heated debate on burnout in Germany, at present various approaches on how to prevent the development of burnout syndromes, how to ensure a need adapted treatment for employees with a manifest disorder and how the process of returning to work already addresses aspects of secondary prevention are under discussion. This leads to different fields of activities for company health management and the health care system and structural improvements are essential.