European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology
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The European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology (EA-OHP) is a pan-European organization that was established in 1999. It is the first organization of its kind in the world that is devoted to occupational health psychology
.
The activities of the EA-OHP are centered on research, practice, and education. The Academy organizes a major international conference on OHP every two years. The EA-OHP publishes the journal Work & Stress
. The Academy has developed a number of other initiatives. It publishes a newsletter, The Occupational Health Psychologist, three times per year to keep the membership abreast of developments in the field The EA-OHP runs regional workshops to benefit its members and other professionals. Beginning with an agreement in 2008, the Academy coordinates member benefits and international conferences with the Society for Occupational Health Psychology
, a U. S. organization.
In 1997 representatives from the University of Nottingham and the departments of Occupational Medicine at two Danish universities, Skive Syghus and Herning Syghus, wrote an enabling document that laid the foundation for an organizing committee, the purpose of which was to create a European organization dedicated to supporting “research, teaching and practice” in OHP. The EA-OHP came into existence in 1999.
The organization operated out of the Institute of Work, Health & Organisations, at the University of Nottingham, under the leadership of Dr. Cox and "actively supported by a pan-European team of individuals and institutions." The organization developed working groups in research, teaching, and practice.
The EA-OHP’s leading activity was organizing annual conferences that facilitated the sharing of research findings and educational and practice information. Attendance at the Academy’s conferences increased steadily. By 2006, the EA-OHP conference series became biennial. By way of an agreement reached in 2008 with their U.S. counterparts in the Society for Occupational Health Psychology
(SOHP), the EA-OHP now coordinates its conference series with the APA/NIOSH/SOHP Work, Stress, and Health conference series.
The first EA-OHP conference was attended mainly by academics, but the conference series increasingly attracted practitioners and graduate students as well as occupational safety and health practitioners. In 2000, the journal Work & Stress became associated with the Academy. Other publishing activities include the publication of conference proceedings and a book series. A more detailed history of the EA-OHP was published in 2009.
Occupational health psychology
Occupational health psychology emerged out of two distinct applied disciplines within psychology, health psychology and industrial/organizational psychology, and occupational health. OHP is concerned with the psychosocial characteristics of workplaces that contribute to the development of...
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The activities of the EA-OHP are centered on research, practice, and education. The Academy organizes a major international conference on OHP every two years. The EA-OHP publishes the journal Work & Stress
Work & Stress
Work & Stress is a peer-reviewed academic journal published four times per year by the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology covering a broad range of research in occupational health psychology...
. The Academy has developed a number of other initiatives. It publishes a newsletter, The Occupational Health Psychologist, three times per year to keep the membership abreast of developments in the field The EA-OHP runs regional workshops to benefit its members and other professionals. Beginning with an agreement in 2008, the Academy coordinates member benefits and international conferences with the Society for Occupational Health Psychology
Society for Occupational Health Psychology
The Society for Occupational Health Psychology is a learned society with as focal point the "generation, dissemination, and application of scientific knowledge in order to improve worker health and well-being." The goals of the society are threefold. First, SOHP promotes psychological research on...
, a U. S. organization.
Historical development
In 1987 Tom Cox of the University of Nottingham (UK) founded the journal Work & Stress, the first scientific journal devoted to OHP. With the advent of the journal as well as with the first APA/NIOSH conference on Work, Stress, and Health in Washington, DC in 1990, OHP was gaining adherents. Dr. Cox pursued the idea of founding a professional organization around which OHP researchers, teachers, and practitioners could coalesce.In 1997 representatives from the University of Nottingham and the departments of Occupational Medicine at two Danish universities, Skive Syghus and Herning Syghus, wrote an enabling document that laid the foundation for an organizing committee, the purpose of which was to create a European organization dedicated to supporting “research, teaching and practice” in OHP. The EA-OHP came into existence in 1999.
The organization operated out of the Institute of Work, Health & Organisations, at the University of Nottingham, under the leadership of Dr. Cox and "actively supported by a pan-European team of individuals and institutions." The organization developed working groups in research, teaching, and practice.
The EA-OHP’s leading activity was organizing annual conferences that facilitated the sharing of research findings and educational and practice information. Attendance at the Academy’s conferences increased steadily. By 2006, the EA-OHP conference series became biennial. By way of an agreement reached in 2008 with their U.S. counterparts in the Society for Occupational Health Psychology
Society for Occupational Health Psychology
The Society for Occupational Health Psychology is a learned society with as focal point the "generation, dissemination, and application of scientific knowledge in order to improve worker health and well-being." The goals of the society are threefold. First, SOHP promotes psychological research on...
(SOHP), the EA-OHP now coordinates its conference series with the APA/NIOSH/SOHP Work, Stress, and Health conference series.
The first EA-OHP conference was attended mainly by academics, but the conference series increasingly attracted practitioners and graduate students as well as occupational safety and health practitioners. In 2000, the journal Work & Stress became associated with the Academy. Other publishing activities include the publication of conference proceedings and a book series. A more detailed history of the EA-OHP was published in 2009.
See also
- Journal of Occupational Health PsychologyJournal of Occupational Health PsychologyThe Journal of Occupational Health Psychology is a peer-reviewed academic journal published quarterly by the American Psychological Association...
- Occupational health psychologyOccupational health psychologyOccupational health psychology emerged out of two distinct applied disciplines within psychology, health psychology and industrial/organizational psychology, and occupational health. OHP is concerned with the psychosocial characteristics of workplaces that contribute to the development of...
- Society for Occupational Health PsychologySociety for Occupational Health PsychologyThe Society for Occupational Health Psychology is a learned society with as focal point the "generation, dissemination, and application of scientific knowledge in order to improve worker health and well-being." The goals of the society are threefold. First, SOHP promotes psychological research on...
- Work & StressWork & StressWork & Stress is a peer-reviewed academic journal published four times per year by the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology covering a broad range of research in occupational health psychology...