Stress management 2: effectiveness of interventions - The second part of our stress special looks at whether some of the interventions introduced by employers in the past few years have been effective, and concludes that: "Much of what is done in the name of stress management has become habitual, kneejerk, uncritical, unquestioning, lacking in innovation and, most importantly, not as helpful as it should be in dealing with real problems employees and organisations face. "