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Thursday, March 27, 2008
Drs. Tammy Allen and Paul Spector (Psychology) and Teri Albrecht and Yehia Hammad (Public Health) have created an interdisciplinary concentration in OHP bridging coursework in psychology and public health. The psychology coursework includes a graduate seminar in OHP and a graduate seminar in careers; public health coursework consists of a course in risk communication and an elective. The current purpose of the program is to provide OHP training for students in psychology (mainly clinical and industrial/organizational), public health, and other fields.
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Dr. Jo-Ida Hansen directs the Occupational Health Psychology emphasis in the psychology department. The curriculum has an interdisciplinary focus, and courses may be drawn from psychology, environmental and occupational health, speech communications, industrial relations, human resources, educational psychology, and kinesiology. The Vocational and Occupational Health Psychology course provides an introduction to the psychology component and the psychological perspective within the field of occupational health. The Vocational and Occupational Health Psychology Research Seminar offers an opportunity to explore the OHP research literature in depth. The Career and Occupational Health Psychology Assessment Seminar provides an overview of instruments used by vocational and OHP psychologists. For those interested in applied practice, there are courses in therapeutic theories, interventions, ethics, and cultural diversity.
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008
University of Connecticut
Rob Henning (I/O Psychology), Vicki Magley (I/O Psychology), and Nick Warren (Ergonomics Technology Center, University of Connecticut Health Center) have established a new doctoral training program in "Work Organization and Health Psychology." This scientist-practitioner model of training within Industrial/Organizational Psychology includes a graduate certificate consisting of an OSH proseminar, field methods, lab or field research plus elective courses such as ergonomics and organizational stress. In addition to financial support from the I/O Division, students receive fellowship support to engage in OSH research over summer. Multidisciplinary research themes include the macroergonomics of hazard management and musculoskeletal disorders, gender discrimination and workplace civility, rest break schedules during computer-mediated work, health psychophysiology of work teams, and utility analyses for OSH programs.
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University of Houston
Drs. Lois Tetrick and Barbara Ellis will lead the initiative to establish a specialty area of graduate study in OHP in the psychology department. They are currently developing a survey course in OHP for graduate students and individuals holding a doctorate in psychology who want additional training in OHP. Additionally, they are coordinating a series of lectures and workshops for faculty and graduate students to provide the basis for the development of an OHP methodology course. Faculty in industrial engineering and the Health Law and Policy Institute will collaborate with the psychology department to support the training program.
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Monday, March 24, 2008
Tulane University Drs. Michael Burke and Sue Ann Sarpy are directing the development and implementation of two interdisciplinary courses in OHP, including a survey course on OHP principles and a course on the principles and techniques of health and safety training. The development of the courses are intended to lead to the development of an interdisciplinary Master of Science degree program in OHP and an interdisciplinary Ph.D. degree program in OHP, respectively. Courses will be offered to those in the psychology department, as well as programs in environmental health sciences, industrial hygiene, occupational health and safety management, and health systems management. University of California at Los Angeles Drs. Judith Siegel, Rena Repetti and Peter Schnall have developed a course titled "Work and Health" (CHS 278). The course is intended to be the first in new minor introducing graduate students in the SPH and ERC (NIOSH Education Research Center) to issues regarding the role of work organization, and psychosocial factors in the development of mental and physical health problems of working people. The current course introduces students to the latest psychosocial stress models (e.g., job strain), documents their impact on mental and physical health (e.g., hypertension) and provides students through a practicum with hands-on skills at worksite assessment to identify the presence of these putative risk factors. This course is part of a larger initiative being conducted by the Southern California Centers for Occupational and Environmental Health on Psychosocial factors in the work environment titled STEP (for surveillance, training and early prevention). See www.workhealth.org for more details.
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Saturday, March 22, 2008
Kansas State University Kansas State University (KSU) has fully implemented a graduate certificate in OHP. The four three-credit hour courses that are required for the completion of the certificate are offered online in a distance format. Students can enroll for each class at their convenience and will be granted the certificate upon completion of the four-course sequence. This involves a proseminar survey of the field, a seminar on key topics, a review of relevant research methods, and a practicum/internship in OHP. Portland State University Leslie Hammer and Bob Sinclair are co-directing the OHP program at Portland State. The OHP minor consists of a survey course that provides students with an introduction to the field of OHP, a course on Work and Well-Being, as well as an overview survey course on Occupational Safety and Health. In addition to these required courses, students take an Organizational Psychology course and two electives in the area. Finally, students complete a required OHP internship and a dissertation in an area of OHP. This program is supported by an advisory board made up of experts in the fields of Occupational Health and Safety, Psychology, and Labor Education.
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Thursday, March 20, 2008
Clemson University Dr. James McCubbin is heading an interdisciplinary faculty effort to develop graduate training in OHP at Clemson University. The psychology department has organized an OHP minor for students in their I-O PhD program. Training in OHP is also available as a concentration in their MS program in Applied Psychology. An integral part of those programs is the Survey of OHP course that utilizes problem based learning and realistic case studies to develop disciplinary knowledge and problem solving skills in OHP. Colorado State University Supported by the American Psychological Association and National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety, the CSU psychology department established an Occupational Health Psychology concentration for graduate students in 2001. The concentration consists of two critical and unique components: science and practice, with the mission of training graduate students in different areas (e.g., ergonomics, clinical psychology, work psychology, etc.) to master research, theory, and practice in OHP. Two OHP courses (Prevention of occupational illness and injuries, and Occupational health psychology) have been developed and are offered every other year since 2002. Several funded interdisciplinary OHP projects are conducted by faculty and students. Any inquiry about OHP courses or research projects can be directed to Professor Lorann Stallones or Peter Chen.
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Funds provided by a five-year cooperative agreement between NIOSH and the APA have enabled several universities to initiate the development of curriculum in OHP. University programs are at various stages in the development and implementation of their course offerings. Interested students should contact the primary faculty of the universities for additional information. Bowling Green State University Drs. Carlla Smith and William O’Brien of the psychology department have developed a graduate minor in OHP as part of the existing I/O and clinical psychology programs. The minor will consist of coursework, research, and supervised practicum experiences. Bowling green’s psychology department is collaborating with the Environmental Health Program in the College of Health and Human Services.
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Monday, March 17, 2008
In the period 1990-1999, NIOSH and the APA launched a series of initiatives to promote the new field of OHP. Four international conferences on work, stress and health were convened and the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology was founded in 1996. Of special importance, a program has been implemented to support both post-doctoral and graduate level training in OHP at major universities. These programs have strong interdepartmental linkages which expose psychology students to topics and methods in occupational safety and health, and provide opportunities for practical, or internships in actual workplaces. The core curriculum in these training programs usually includes coursework addressing the following topics: * Survey of occupational safety and health * Job stress theory and mechanisms * Organizational risk factors for occupational stress, injury, and illness. * Health implications of stressful work, including physical and psychological health, and social and economic outcomes. * Organizational interventions (e.g., work redesign) and programs (e.g., employee assistance programs, work-family programs) for reduction of occupational stress, illness and injury. * Research methods and practices in public/occupational health and epidemiology.
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Friday, March 14, 2008
Many psychologists have argued that the psychology field needs to take a more active role in research and practice to prevent occupational stress, illness, and injury. This is what the new field of Occupational Health Psychology (OHP) is all about. Although research and practice in OHP may cover a wide range of topics, NIOSH has urged that this new field give special attention to the primary prevention of organizational risk factors for stress, illness, and injury at work. This viewpoint is expressed in the NIOSH-proposed definition of OHP: OHP concerns the application of psychology to improving the quality of work life, and to protecting and promoting the safety, health and well-being of workers. The notion of health "protection" in this definition refers to intervention in the work environment to reduce worker exposures to workplace hazards, while health "promotion" refers to individual-level interventions to equip workers with knowledge and resources to improve their health and thereby resist hazards in the work environment. Although both of these types of interventions can be defined as primary prevention, the NIOSH-proposed definition places priority on health protection. OHP is especially concerned with the dramatic transformation of work and employment that has been underway in industrial economies since the 1980s (e.g., flexible employment and production processes), and how changing organizational structures and processes are influencing the health and well-being of workers and their families. Refer to the articles listed under the OHP Bibliography for a more extensive discussion of this emerging field.
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