Work and wellbeing: apply Positive Occupational Health Psychology (POHP) and Mental Fitness. (For HR Specialists)

Description

Objectives

There is a demand in occupational health psychology for a more integrated and comprehensive approach to workplace health. 

This comprehensive approach considers the moon's two sides when dealing with OHP. The dark side seeks to prevent and manage workplace hazards, occupational illness, and disease. The bright side promotes the positive characteristics of the working environment that enhance human vitality, strengths and optimal functioning. Positive occupational health psychology (POHP) and mental fitness address this in knowledge and practice.

This course will present both the dark and the bright side of the moon, introducing the core concepts and techniques underpinning POHP and Mental Fitness.

Participants

HR/HSE manager and specialists.

Program

What is stress

• Early theories
• Contemporary theories
• Interactional theories
• Transactional Theories

What causes stress

• Psychological stressor

How to measure stress

• Psychological outcome
  • Perceived work characteristics
  • Affect and attitudes
  • Health measures
• Physiological measures
• Organizational outcome

• Level of interventions
• Design and implementing interventions
  • Primary intervention
  • Secondary intervention
  • Tertiary intervention
• Evaluating interventions

• The 7 steps of the risk management approach of OHS
• Risk assessment
• Best practices in psychosocial risk management

• What is health
• Individually oriented WHP programme
• Setting-based approach to WHP

From negative to positive

• Negative bias in psychology
• Origin of negative
• Positive psychology

• From burnout to engagement
• Job demand, resources and engagement
• Designing jobs to do good
• Psychological capital
• Job Crafting
• Positive spillover

• Micro interventions
• Macro interventions

• Assumptions of mental health and mental fitness
• The mental fitness P.L.A.N.
• Psychological skills and exercises to address mental health
• Deploy the Mental Fitness Model to the organisation

Documentation

The documentation used in the classroom will be made available for consultation to participants through the huract.online LMS (Learning Management System) for one year from the course date.