Occupational Health Psychology Training

职业健康心理培训

• 批准号: 8917017
• 负责人: Vicki J Magley
• 金额: $ 10.88万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT STORRS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-07-01 至 2020-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8917017
• 关键词: Occupational; Health; Psychology; Training

 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.

 项目描述(由申请者提供)：项目摘要A.项目的长期目标和目标康涅狄格大学职业健康心理学(OHP)研究生培训项目旨在招收和培训心理学、公共卫生和护理专业的高素质和多样化的研究生，使他们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。职业趋势(如裁员、临时工、延长工作时间)推动了对职业健康心理学研究的需要，这涉及影响工作生活质量和工人反应的广泛暴露和机制，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，提高工人保护自己安全和健康的能力，同时最大限度地提高他们的效率和福祉。因此，OHP符合NIOSH全员健康倡议的许多战略目标。B.培训计划的主要内容学员学习如何为OHP知识库做出贡献，并成为能力很强的研究人员，他们研究和实施维护和促进工人健康和安全的新方法。OHP集中课程纳入工业/组织(I/O)心理学博士培训计划。因此，培训计划遵循科学家-实践者模式，即学员完成12学分的规定课程作业，3学分的应用领域/实验室研究，硕士和学位论文水平的研究，并参加教职研究实验室。所有学员完成研究生研讨会，涵盖行为科学、人体工程学和流行病学的原理，并需要制定多学科研究计划；该课程由OHP核心教员和医学院的流行病学家授课。此外，学员还需要完成一门流行病学必修课和两门心理学和/或公共卫生的研究生选修课。这一课程内容和应用研究培训相结合的目的是使受训者掌握解决当今职业健康问题的必要技能，并使他们能够引入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。学员：我们主要从心理学系的I/O博士生项目中招聘，以努力将广泛的OHP培训添加到学员更一般的博士生需求中。康涅狄格州大学的I/O项目是新英格兰各州唯一的I/O项目，因此有可能为这一培训招募优秀的学生。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学位论文水平的研究，以及其他研究，以使受训人员在紧张的就业市场中具有竞争力。学员在学术界、工业界、咨询公司和政府机构找到工作。我们每年为大约10名受训人员提供支持(其中两人以全职、为期一年的津贴支持；其余的以参加会议的旅费支持)。I/O计划以外的学生可以完成OHP研究生证书的15学分计划，但没有资格获得助学金支持。