1st semester

Learning objectives

By attending the course, students will become familiar with issues of investigating psychosocial and stress factors in the workplace. Generative factors such as automation, boring work, mass production technology. Development of risk assessment strategies as well as stress management. Acquisition of social skills (social skills training).

Issues such as violence and social problems in the workplace, factors that contribute to violence, are presented, ways to reduce violence in the workplace are developed. Reference to burnout (emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, cynical treatment of recipients of services). Social – Causative factors of psychopathological conditions. Organizational environment conditions. Research and data collection methods with questionnaire and interviews. Elements of elaboration and evaluation of social research findings.

Codes of ethics and ethical rules that apply, case studies that describe significant health and safety risks associated with each case. Topics, presentations and discussion are provided.

Course content

The structure of the course in modules that refer to issues related to the organization of workplace, assessment of health risks of employees and the communication methods resulting from it as follows:

• Health, Health Behaviour, Social Work and Social Research
• Ethics in Health & Social Research
• Social Research Methods. Stages of planning Social Research. Population - sample selection
• Questionnaire research (identification of research object, definition of work objectives and hypotheses, sample selection, questionnaire design, coding, analysis of results, writing of research report)
• Attitude measurement scales