Admission requirements
Master’s students Occupational Health Psychology
Description
This course focuses on the role of workplace factors in employee health and well-being. Both the potential negative consequences, i.e. mental and physical health problems, and the positive consequences, i.e. engagement, personal growth/learning, will be addressed.
A series of introductory lectures introduces students to the most important psychosocial stress models (e.g., Job-Demand-Control-Support model, Effort-Reward Imbalance model, Person-Environment fit model). Empirical research regarding the impact of work factors on mental and physical health (e.g. burnout, cardiovascular disease) is discussed.
After these lectures, sessions will be dedicated to presentations on a contemporary issue in the work and stress field prepared by the students themselves. Regarding the topic of the presentation, students may put forward own suggestions, or choose a topic from an existing list (e.g. work-family conflict, impact of shift work on health, determinants of burnout, the experience of ‘flow’). In order to ensure active involvement and participation in the presentations and ensuing discussion, all students will read provided key publications on the topics at hand before each presentation session.
At the end of the course students will write a short paper related to the topic of their presentation.
Course objectives
Students will
acquire scientific up-to-date knowledge on the area of occupational stress
be familiar with the most prominent occupational stress models
be able to prepare and give a presentation in English on an occupational stress topic
be able to write a short paper on an occupational stress topic based on up-to-date scientific literature
Timetable
Work and Stress (2010-2011):
Mode of instruction
Lectures (4)
student presentations and discussion (6 sessions)
individual feedback on draft of presentation and paper
Assessment method
Oral presentation, individual paper, attendance and active participation
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Blackboard
Information on blackboard.leidenuniv.nl
Reading list
Recent key publications on contemporary topics
Registration
Introduction and enrolment for courses of the first semester will take place on 2 September 2010. Introduction and enrolment for courses of the second semester will take place on 27 January 2011. More information will be available at the website of the Institute of Psychology.
Contact information
Dr. M. van der Doef
Room 2B34
Tel.: +31 (0)71 527 3987
E-Mail: doef@fsw.leidenuniv.nl