2018-2019 / GRBE0303-1

Individual and Collective Psychosocial risks Definition and Evaluation

Duration

40h Th

Number of credits

 Specialised master in risk management and well-being in the workplace4 crédits 

Lecturer

Audrey Babic, Isabelle Hansez, Caroline Iweins

Coordinator

Isabelle Hansez

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

On the first day, Prof. Hansez presents the definition and taxonomies of psycho-social risks, their evaluation methods (e.g. observation, participative approach, focus-group, questionnaires, combined approaches), the benefit of combined quantitative and qualitiative approaches, coaching with regard to company evaluation (analysing demand, monitoring committee, difficulty of moving from diagnosis to intervention).  She also deals with the durability of preventive measures and presents practical cases of psycho-social risks evaluation and reflection on possible intervention.
On the second day, Dr. Iweins deals with various stress models and the adaptation strategy models, the possible effects of psycho-social risks (e.g. stress, burnout, relational suffering at work (including moral harassment, conflict, hyper conflict)), stress and burnout evaluation tools (questionnaires: MBI, OLBI, UBOS, BAT etc.); clinical approach: clinical diagnosis tool etc.). Dr. Iweins also boraches the personal resources influencing the occupational suffering process (e.g. resilience, coping strategies, psychological capital etc.) as well as possible preventive measures.  
On the third day, Prof. Hansez and Dr. Iweins focus on a psycho-social diagnosis method on the basis of the Woccq questionnaire and on the clinical evaluation of burnout.  The analysis of these two case studies is presented.  
The fourth day is devoted to assessing group work projects. Following the presentation of one case of suffering at work, the task consists in identifying and analysing the individual, organizational and group-based components as well as those relating to the task/activity, and highlight the dynamic relationships of these factors.  The students are also invited to reflect on possible prevention (individual, collective, combined) to be promoted, on the agents of prevention and health professionals to involve.  

 

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

The course aims at giving students a command of the notion of psycho-social risks and of their resulting damage (stress, burnout, relational suffering at work etc.) and the various models and tools enabling to identify and evaluate risk factors and resources at the collective and individual level. The students will also have to identify the appropriate and adapted risks identification methods and exchange about their own practice and experience through exercices and work done during the course.  

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course is taught on the basis of slides alternating lectures and illustrative cases.  A group exercice will be proposed through analysing a practical case.   

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)

in-person teaching 

Recommended or required readings

Assessment methods and criteria

The students will have to carry out a group work project aiming at analysing a concrete case on the basis of the models and tools presented in class, and reflect on the individual and collective preventive solutions that could be implemented.  
 
The assessment takes place on the fourth day. 

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Contacts

Lecturer : Prof. Isabelle Hansez Faculté de Psychologie, Logopédie et Sciences de l'Education (FPLSE) Département de Psychologie - Unité de Valorisation des Ressources Humaines (ValoRH) Quartier Agora - Place des Orateurs, 2 (bat. B32) 4000 Liège 1 ihansez@ulg.ac.be   Dr. Caroline Iweins de Wavrans:
Guest lecturer
Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL)
caroline.iweins@uclouvain.be