The Positive Side Of Occupational Health Psychology
by Marit Christensen /
2017 / English / PDF
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This book serves as an introduction to the Nordic approach to
Occupational Health Psychology and illustrates how this perspective
can be transferred to a global audience. It discusses a joining of
attitudes from Positive Psychology accompanied by experiences drawn
from the Nordic work/life context. Over the decades, Nordic
countries have gathered a great deal of experience on the
meaningfulness of work, work engagement, presenteeism, absenteeism,
job crafting, work family balance, intervention and reorganization.
These experiences are explained and offered as a different
approach to Occupational Health Psychology, while avoiding the more
traditional detrimental topics such as stress, conflict burnout and
poor well-being. Instead the authors discuss subjects such as
engagement, healthy change, prosperity and welfare and are applied
to the current ideas on Occupational Health Science. This book
shows that using interdisciplinary observations can help our
understanding of modern worker health. It offers gives readers an
opportunity to consider how a combination of good work and good
health can be stimulated in theory and in practice.
This book serves as an introduction to the Nordic approach to
Occupational Health Psychology and illustrates how this perspective
can be transferred to a global audience. It discusses a joining of
attitudes from Positive Psychology accompanied by experiences drawn
from the Nordic work/life context. Over the decades, Nordic
countries have gathered a great deal of experience on the
meaningfulness of work, work engagement, presenteeism, absenteeism,
job crafting, work family balance, intervention and reorganization.
These experiences are explained and offered as a different
approach to Occupational Health Psychology, while avoiding the more
traditional detrimental topics such as stress, conflict burnout and
poor well-being. Instead the authors discuss subjects such as
engagement, healthy change, prosperity and welfare and are applied
to the current ideas on Occupational Health Science. This book
shows that using interdisciplinary observations can help our
understanding of modern worker health. It offers gives readers an
opportunity to consider how a combination of good work and good
health can be stimulated in theory and in practice.