Overview

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Offerings

MURDOCH-S2-FACE2FACE-2025-ONGOING

Requisites

Exclusion

Enrolment rules

Enrolment in M1238 Master of Applied Psychology (Professional)

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Learning activities

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Learning outcomes

1.
Have an understanding of the experience and psychology of people at work and in organisations as these relate to well-beig.
2.
Understand the role Psychologists can have in improving the quality of work life and organisational outcomes.
3.
Have a psychology-informed understanding of the issues of employee health, safety, human factors and well-being in occupational settings.
4.
Have an understanding of the methodological issues of conducting research within the field of worker well-being including, ethical considerations relating to data collection/access and observation, comparability, contamination and variability and the criterion problem.

Assessments

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Additional information

Unit content:

Core topics covered in this unit include:

  • The Significance of Work
  • Work Stress 
  • Mental Health and Counselling in the workplace: Bullying, Substance abuse, Counselling & Coaching
  • Working as a psychologist in schools
  • Working with disability
  • Workplace Health and Safety.  Health and Safety Legislation and Accident Causation: Human Error
  • Safety culture and systems
  • Trauma Interventions
  • Work and Life Balance
  • Work Transitions and Cessation

UN Sustainable Development Goals

This curriculum aligns with the following UN Sustainable Development Goals:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being