Graduate Training in Occupational Health Psychology

Details

• Personal Author:
  Hammer LB ; Yang L-Q
• Description:
  The graduate training program at Portland State University addresses a currently under-represented discipline of Occupational Safety and Health, namely, Occupational Health Psychology (OHP). OHP involves the application of psychological principles to improving the quality of work life and promoting the safety, health, and well-being of people at work. Our goal for the program is to serve as a national model for an OHP training program that successfully balances science and practice perspectives while remaining multidisciplinary in nature. In 2002, the Portland State University-Occupational Health Psychology (PSU-OHP) program received the first National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Training Program Grant (TPG) in the area of OHP (for the 02/03, 03/04, and 04/05 academic years). We offer a Ph.D. in Applied Psychology with a minor in OHP. In the first three years of the original grant, we constructed a fully-functioning program that produced 2 doctoral graduates in 2005. Our TPG was renewed in 2005 for five years. During that five-year period we graduated another 5 OHP doctoral students, hiring new faculty in the area, expanding our expertise in occupational safety, and obtaining significant research funding of studies with strong OHP foci. In 2010 we were renewed for another five years and during that time we graduated 13 more students for a total of 20 PhD graduates from our program and almost all are employed in related fields using their OHP knowledge and skills. In 2015 we were renewed for another five years and during that time we graduated 11 more students for a total of 31 PhD graduates from our program and almost all are employed in related fields using their OHP knowledge and skills. In addition, we currently have 14 students in our program. Our OHP trainees are prepared for jobs in industry, academia, public service, community health, or consulting, and have expertise in worker health, safety, and well-being. Specific examples of areas of practice for OHP include behavioral preventative medicine, accident and injury prevention, workplace violence reduction, executive coaching, behavioral management consulting, behavioral epidemiology, and health and safety policy development. Drs. Liu Qin Yang and Leslie Hammer oversee administration of the OHP program. Drs. Hammer and Yang are Industrial/Organizational Psychologists, trained in applying psychological principles to understanding individual behavior in work organizations with emphasis on issues related to OHP. Dr. Hammer served as Program Director until January 2020 at which time Dr. Liu-Qin Yang took over as Director. Dr. Yang is in charge of all administrative structures related to the training program including internal curricular issues, student recruitment, retention, advising, and supervision of student theses, dissertations and internships. Dr. Hammer now serves as Associate Director of the program and assists Dr. Yang with all facets of program administration and student supervision. Both Dr. Yang and Dr. Hammer maintain regular contact with all Supporting faculty, as well as with the OHP Advisory Board. We currently have 7 core faculty (Yang, Hammer, Fritz, Martinez, Dimoff (on leave), Mohr and Crain (hired this year)) in the area and 7 additional faculty who support the area across multiple disciplines and universities. Dr. Truxillo, our former Associate Director has retired and we hired Dr. Tori Crain who will be joining the faculty this Fall. Dr. Crain will be teaching our required Occupational Health Psychology course and our required seminar in Occupational Safety and Health, alternating with Drs. Fritz and Yang. Our students also take courses in the joint Portland State University, Oregon Health & Science University School of Public Health. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Education Mental Health Nervous System Occupational Health Preventive Medicine Public Health Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Mental Health Occupational Health Programs Occupational Psychology Preventive Medicine Public Health Training Worker Health Work Organization
• Series:
  Grant Final Reports
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Final Grant Report
• Place as Subject:
  Oregon ; OSHA Region 10
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OEP - Office of Extramural Programs
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-16
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20063201
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2022-100324
• Citation:
  Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, T03-OH-008435, 2020 Oct; :1-16
• Contact Point Address:
  Liu-Qin Yang, PhD, Department of Psychology, Portland State University, P.O. Box 751 (PSY) Portland, OR 97207-0751
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2021
• Performing Organization:
  Portland State University
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• End Date:
  20250630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:0480977c0258694d55a90e3060c74d10c417cfd8d17bbaec586290a3388a507f15a291ed2c36027acf43b7ec1e1ed4a417b7061f5b369999698a9942f44508cc
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/219069/cdc_219069_DS1.pdf
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