Occupational Health Psychology- Total Worker Health®
Welcome to Occupational Health Psychology-Total Worker Health (TWH)!
Occupational Health Psychology is a rapidly expanding interdisciplinary field that focuses on the science and practice of psychology in the promotion and development of workplace health- and safety-related initiatives.
Announcements
Work, Stress, and Health 2023 Conference
The 15th annual international Work, Stress, and Health (WSH) Conference took place virtually on November 8-11, 2023. Mental health was a focus of this year's conference. Please follow this link for more information about the 2023 WSH conference.
Protecting Worker Health in Hazardous Occupations
The Fall 2023 PSU-OHSU Symposium, which took place on October 27th 2023, addressed the unique challenges that employees who are in hazardous occupations may face, populations who are at a high-risk for these challenges, and methods of fostering a total health culture. Please see the event's homepage for more information. For recordings and more information about recent symposia, please follow this link.
Dr. Liu-Qin Yang Received the Sigma Xi Outstanding Researcher Award in Behavioral and Social Sciences (Columbia-Willamette Chapter)
Dr. Liu-Qin Yang was selected for the Sigma Xi Outstanding Researcher Award in Behavioral and Social Sciences (Columbia-Willamette Chapter). Read more about the Sigma Xi here.
Dr. Liu-Qin Yang elected as a President-Elect of the Society for Occupational Health Psychology
Dr. Liu-Qin Yang was recently elected and now serves as the President-Elect of the Society for Occupational Health Psychology (SOHP), joining the executive leadership team with Dr. Gwen Fisher (President), among others. More about the SOHP, occupational health and safety-related resources, and networking opportunities can be found here.
Dr. Leslie Hammer and Dr. Ellen Kossek Received the 2020 Ellen Galinsky Generative Researchers Award
This award recognizes a work-family researcher or research team who has/have contributed break-through thinking to the work-family field via theory, measures, and/or data sets that led to expansive application, innovation, and diffusion, including the sharing of research opportunity in the spirit of open science.
Dr. Liu-Qin Yang (Co-I) and Dr. Christina Nicolaidis (PI) awarded grant to devise measurement tools to assess autistic adults
An interdisciplinary team (Dr. Christina Nicolaidis-PI, Dr. Liu-Qin Yang-co-I, among others) was recently awarded a 5-year grant by the National Institute of Mental Health, to create and validate a package of measurement tools to assess the health, function and social well-being of adults on the Autism spectrum. More about this project can be found here.