Occupational Health Psychology Training Program

描述(由申请者提供)：康涅狄格大学职业健康心理学(OHP)研究生培训计划旨在招聘和培训心理学、公共卫生和护理领域的高素质和多样化的研究生，使其成为能够进行多学科和跨学科研究的博士研究员，重点关注职业健康的行为方面。研究生培训方案遵循科学家-实践者模式，受训人员完成15学分的职业健康心理学研究生证书，其中包括核心教师讲授的研究生研讨会、流行病学研究生方法必修课程、OHP由教师监督的实地或实验室研究，以及心理学和/或公共卫生的两个选修研究生课程。研究和专题课程包括人员/组织心理学、人类因素/人体工效学、公共卫生研究生课程和流行病学，由来自心理学和医学院的5名受过专门培训的教员讲授，使受训人员掌握技能，不仅使他们能够研究当今的职业健康问题，而且开发和应用工作组织和工作场所设计的新概念，以提高工人的健康和生产率，超出目前的预期，从而实现跨学科职业健康研究的真正潜力，满足地区和国家的需求。由于每年有8名全日制受训人员得到研究金的支持，预计在5年的资助期内，将有15名积极进取的受训人员毕业时获得博士学位和OHP证书。一些职业趋势，如裁员、临时工和更长的工作时间；远程工作，以及工作场所自动化水平的提高，推动了对职业健康心理学研究的需要。OHP关注影响工作生活质量和工人反应的各种暴露和机制，例如个人心理属性如何与工作内容和工作组织以及组织政策和做法相互作用。OHP的研究和实践探索了针对工作环境和个人的干预措施，以创造更健康的工作场所和组织，并提高工人保护其安全和健康的能力，并最大限度地提高他们的整体效力和幸福感。

DESCRIPTION (Provided by Applicant): The Occupational Health Psychology (OHP) graduate training program at the University of Connecticut is designed to recruit and train highly qualified and diverse graduate students from areas of psychology, public health and nursing to become Ph.D. researchers capable of conducting multi-disciplinary and trans- disciplinary research focusing on the behavioral aspects of occupational health. The graduate training program follows a scientist-practitioner model in which trainees complete a 15-credit graduate certificate in occupational health psychology consisting of a graduate proseminar taught by core faculty, a required graduate methods course in epidemiology, faculty-supervised field or lab research in OHP, and two elective graduate courses in psychology and/or public health. The research and topical curriculum includes personnel/organizational psychology, human factors/ergonomics, public health graduate courses and epidemiology taught by 5 specially trained faculty from both Psychology and the School of Medicine to equip trainees with the skills that will not only enable them to conduct research on today's occupational health problems, but also to develop and apply new concepts of work organization and workplace design for enhancing worker health and productivity beyond current expectations, thus realizing the true potential of trans-disciplinary occupational health research to meet both regional and national needs. With eight full-time trainees supported by fellowships each year, the expectation is that 15 motivated trainees will graduate with a combination of a Ph.D. and the OHP certificate over the 5-year grant period. Relevance A number of occupational trends, such as downsizing, contingent labor and longer work hours; telework, and increasing levels of automation in the workplace have propelled the need for studies on occupational health psychology. OHP is concerned with the broad range of exposures and mechanisms that affect the quality of working life and the responses of workers, such as how individual psychological attributes interact with job content and work organization as well as organizational policies and practices. OHP research and practice explores interventions targeting the work environment as well as the individual to create healthier workplaces and organizations, and to improve the capacity of workers to protect their safety and health and also to maximize their overall effectiveness and sense of wellbeing.