Occupational Health Psychology: Work Organization
and Health
CHS-278: Spring 2002
Mondays 1 to 4 beginning April 1, 2002 - June 3, 2002
The impact of work on physical and psychological health
is explored in the context of a newly emerging discipline. The
focus is on psychosocial stressors, measurement (including hands-on
experience), contextual factors (gender, ethnicity, social class),
and how work stressors can be ameliorated.
Faculty participants:
Judith Siegel, Department of Community Health Sciences,
UCLA School of Public Health
Peter Schnall, Department of Medicine, UCI, and Department of
Community Health Sciences, UCLA School of Public Health
Karen Belkic, Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Research, University of Southern California
Paul Landsbergis, Departments of Cardiology and Community and
Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
SYLLABUS
SESSION 1: INTRODUCTION
TO OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY: A SOCIAL EPIDEMIOLOGICAL APPROACH
TO THE WORKPLACE AND HEALTH OUTCOMES
SESSION 2: CONCEPTUAL
AND THEORETICAL MODELS FOR OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY: OPERATIONALIZATION,
MEASUREMENT, AND ASSESSMENT
SESSION 3: TAKING
A WORK HISTORY WHICH WHICH INCLUDES PSYCHOSOCIAL STRESSORS: AN
APPROACH INFORMED BY INSIGHTS FROM COGNITIVE ERGONOMICS &
BRAIN RESEARCH
SESSION 4: PSYCHOSOCIAL
WORKPLACE FACTORS AND PHYSIOLOGICAL MECHANISMS AFFECTING THE CARDIOVASCULAR
SYSTEM
SESSION 5: WOMEN
AND WORK
SESSION 6: PSYCHOSOCIAL
WORKPLACE FACTORS AND HEALTH OUTCOMES
SESSION 7: CESSATION
OF WORK: JOB LOSS AND RETIREMENT
SESSION 8: STRESS
MANAGEMENT AT THE WORKPLACE
SESSION 9: MODELS
FOR INTERVENTION: PRIMARY AND SECONDARY PREVENTION. PROGRAMS AND
POLICIES FOR REGULATION OF WORKPLACE STRESSORS; COURSE WRAP-UP
AND CONCLUSIONS
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