APSK05115U Elective course - Psychosocial Job Stress and Chronic Disease

Volume 2013/2014
Education
Master Program in Psychology 2010-Curriculum
Content
Psychosocial Job Stress and Chronic Disease  
Can social conditions at work cause disease? What are the mechanisms? How do we assess and quantify social conditions and their effects? How do adverse psychosocial conditions affect the employees? These and other questions are the topics for the course. The course is inter­disciplinary, and will introduce commonly used models of work-related stress, as well as broadly applicable methods for measuring the physiological effects of stress on the body. These methods are useful in understanding the effects of job stress and social stressors on health and wellbeing, with applications for cardiovascular disease (CVD), depression, metabolic illness, musculoskeletal pain, and asthma. The course includes both structured lectures that introduce and review various concepts and methods, and workshops where students are encouraged to engage with fellow students and researchers from the National Research Centre for the Working Environment (NRCWE). These workshops will cover topics such as job stress measurement, cardiovascular monitoring of stress response, and linkages between job stress biomarkers and chronic diseases.
Learning Outcome
The goal of elective courses is an expansion or an additional perspective upon the psychological field. This is achieved through theoretical or empirical engagement in themes within or related to the psychological science. Elective courses can be taken in the Department of Psychology or in other departments.
Spring 2014
Psychosocial Job Stress and Chronic Disease: Wednesday 10-12, Jesper Kristiansen
  • Category
  • Hours
  • Class Instruction
  • 28
  • Total
  • 28
Credit
5 ECTS
Type of assessment
Course participation
Written assignment, one week
Active participation: a minimum of 75 % attendance
Syllabus: app. 500 pages
Final exam: one-week assignment
Extent: max 8 pages for 1 student, 12 sider if you write 2 students together and 14 pages if you write 3 students together.
Exam registration requirements
A minimum of 75% attendance
Marking scale
passed/not passed
Censorship form
No external censorship
Exam period
June
Re-exam
August
Criteria for exam assesment