Occupational Health Psychology Training

 描述（由申请人提供）：项目摘要A。该计划的长期目标和目的康涅狄格大学的职业健康心理学（OHP）研究生培训计划旨在招募和培养高素质和多样化的心理学，公共卫生和护理研究生成为博士。研究人员能够进行多学科和跨学科的研究，重点是职业健康的行为方面。职业趋势（例如，裁员、临时工、工作时间延长等因素的影响，促使有必要对职业健康心理学进行研究，研究影响工作生活质量和工人反应的各种风险和机制，例如个人心理特征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，提高工人保护自身安全和健康的能力，同时最大限度地提高他们的效率和福祉。因此，OHP符合NIOSH全面工人健康倡议的许多战略目标。B。培训计划的关键要素学员学习如何为OHP知识库做出贡献，并成为高能力的研究人员，他们研究和实施维护和促进工人健康和安全的新方法。OHP浓度是整合在工业/组织（I/O）心理学博士培训计划。因此，培训计划遵循科学家实践模式，学员完成12个学分的规定课程，3个学分的应用领域/实验室研究，硕士和论文水平的研究，并参加教师研究实验室。所有学员完成一个研究生研讨会，涵盖行为科学，人体工程学和流行病学的原则，并要求制定一个多学科的研究建议;这门课程是由核心OHP教师和来自医学院的流行病学家授课。此外，受训人员还要完成一门流行病学必修课和两门心理学和（或）公共卫生研究生选修课。这种课程内容和应用研究培训的结合，旨在使学员掌握必要的技能，以解决当今的职业健康问题，并使他们能够引入新的工作组织和工作场所设计概念，以提高工人的健康和生产力，实现跨学科职业健康研究的真正潜力，以满足区域和国家的需求。C.受训人员：我们主要从心理学系的I/O博士课程招聘，以努力为学员的更一般的博士要求增加广泛的OHP培训。康州大学的I/O项目是新英格兰各州唯一的此类项目，这使得招募优秀学生参加这项培训成为可能。培训计划需要大约5年的时间才能完成，在此期间完成硕士和论文水平的研究，以及额外的研究，使学员能够在紧张的就业市场中具有竞争力。受训人员在学术界、工业界、咨询公司和政府机构工作。我们每年支助大约10名受训人员（其中两名获得全年的全职津贴;其余人员获得出席会议的旅费支助）。I/O计划之外的学生可以完成OHP研究生证书的15学分课程，但没有资格获得补助金支持。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Project Summary A. Long-term Goals and Objectives of the Program 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 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. Occupational trends (e.g., downsizing, contingent labor, longer work hours) have propelled the need for studies on occupational health psychology, which concerns 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 and the individual to create healthier workplaces and to improve the capacity of workers to protect their own safety and health, while maximizing their effectiveness and wellbeing. As such, OHP fits many of the strategic goals of the NIOSH Total Worker Health initiative. B. Key Elements of the Training Program Trainees learn how to contribute to the OHP knowledge base and become highly capable researchers, who study and implement new ways of maintaining and promoting worker health and safety. The OHP concentration is integrated within the Industrial/Organizational (I/O) Psychology doctoral training program. As such, the training program follows a scientist-practitioner model in which trainees complete 12 credits of prescribed coursework, three credits of applied field/lab research, master- and dissertation-level research, and participate in faculty research labs. All trainees complete a graduate seminar that covers principles of behavioral science, ergonomics and epidemiology and requires development of a multidisciplinary research proposal; this course is taught by core OHP faculty and an epidemiologist from the School of Medicine. In addition, trainees complete a required epidemiology course and two elective graduate courses in psychology and/or public health. This combination of course content and applied research training is designed to equip trainees with the necessary skills to address today's occupational health problems, and enable them to introduce new concepts of work organization and workplace design for enhancing worker health and productivity, realizing the true potential of trans-disciplinary occupational health research to meet both regional and national needs. C. Trainees: We recruit primarily from and also for the Psychology Department's I/O doctoral program in an effort to add extensive OHP training to trainees' more general doctoral requirements. UConn's I/O program is the only one of its kind in the New England states, making it possible to recruit stellar students for this training. The training program take approximately 5 years to complete, during which master- and dissertation-level research is completed, as well as additional research to enable trainees to be competitive in a tight job market. Trainees get jobs in academia, industry, consulting firms and governmental agencies. We support approximately 10 trainees annually (two supported with full-time, year-long stipends; the remaining with travel support for conference attendance). Students outside the I/O program can complete the 15-credit program for the Graduate Certificate in OHP, but are not eligible for grant support.