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 2025 Conference
The 16th annual international Work, Stress, and Health (WSH) Conference will take place July 8-11, 2025, in Seattle, Washington. Worker wellbeing and workforce 5.0 is a key focus of this conference. Please follow this link for more information about the 2025 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 elected as Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
In January 2024, Dr. Liu-Qin Yang was elected as the Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), a US-based global organization representing professionals from all over the world. More about the SIOP and networking opportunities can be found here.
Dr. Liu-Qin Yang serves as the President of the Society for Occupational Health Psychology
In January 2024, Dr. Liu-Qin Yang started her 2-year presidency for the Society for Occupational Health Psychology (SOHP), a US-based global organization representing professionals from 40 + countries. More about the SOHP, occupational health and safety-related resources, and networking opportunities can be found here.
Dr. Cynthia Mohr (and Colleagues) Received the 2023 Best APA Member Poster Award
Dr. Cynthia Mohr and colleagues received the best APA member poster award, for their work on supportive leadership training and loneliness. Read more about their work in this reprint 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.