{"id":2995,"date":"2015-05-26T14:45:14","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T06:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.appliedpsyj.org\/journal\/?p=2995"},"modified":"2015-05-26T14:45:25","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T06:45:25","slug":"occupational-health-psychology-opportunities-and-challenges-for-psychologists-in-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appliedpsyj.org.tw\/journal\/?p=2995","title":{"rendered":"Occupational Health Psychology: Opportunities and Challenges for Psychologists in the 21st Century"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peter Y. Chen<\/strong>
\nDepartment of Psychology Colorado State University USA
\nYueng-Hsiang Huang<\/strong>
\nLiberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety\u00a0USA
\nSarah DeArmond<\/strong>
\nDepartment of Psychology Colorado State University USA<\/p>\n

To address ways of reducing human and financial losses due to occupational stress, illness, and injuries, occupational health psychology (OHP) has emerged over the past several decades as a specialty within psychology. Its goals are to understand and improve the quality of work life and to build healthy work places. OHP is not simply a discipline merged from industrial\/organization (IO) psychology and health psychology. Instead, it is an interdisciplinary specialty which blends different types of psychology (e.g., IO, health, clinical, cognitive) with other occupational health disciplines (e.g., ergonomics, epidemiology, industrial hygiene, occupational medicine). In the current paper, we first present the historical roots of OHP, followed by its definition, a survey of OHP research and practices, and an explanation of the role of psychologists in OHP. In addition, the training programs in North America and Europe and different OHP communities are briefly described. Finally, future challenges for OHP as a field are discussed.<\/p>\n

Keywords: occupational health psychology, safety and health, stress<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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