Health, Age and Work

Code:

P817

Acronym:

SIT

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Psychology

Instance: 2011/2012 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Psychology
Course/CS Responsible:	Integrated Master Psychology

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIPSI	26	Official Curricular Structure 2007/2008	4	-	6	54	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

- To know and to understand the dynamic inter relations between health, age and work. To show the ability of the different theorical and methodical contributions, to show integration ability of the different theorical and methodological contribution, explained in the theorical exposition and in the practical and theorical practice, and also in the moments of the valuation.

- To organize your argument with clarity, precision, logic and epistemological vigilance and also to justify the assumed methodological and theorical options in all different situations.

Program

1. Theorical and methodological development in the aging study at work
2. Social worries in the study of work aging
- Some elements of demography of working population
- Work evolutions and its connection with age
- Observation and aging anticipation documents
3. The biological aging and work
- Biological bases
- Aging effects in the central nervous system
- Sensory functions aging
- Motor functions aging
- Cardiovascular and Respiratory system aging
- The regulation of sleep and vigil
4. The cognitive aging and work
- Cognitive mechanisms of base and experience
- Work and age organization
- The role of experience
5. Expertise and management of the risk at work

Mandatory literature

Marquié Jean Claude 340; Working with age. ISBN: 0-7484-0785-5
Falzon P. 340; Ergonomia
Gonon, O., Delgoulet, C., & Marquié, J.-C. (2004). ; Âge, contraintes de travail et changements de postes : le cas des infirmières., Le Travail Humain, 67, 2, 115-133.
Gonon, O., Delgoulet, C., & Marquié, J.-C. (2004). ; Âge, contraintes de travail et changements de postes : le cas des infirmières., Le Travail Humain, 67, 2, 115-133.
Ramos, S. & Lacomblez, M. (2005); Envelhecimento, trabalho e cognição: 80 anos de investigação., Laboreal, 1, (1), 52-60. http://laboreal.up.pt/revista/artigo.php?id=48u56oTV65822342746:64:472
Actes du séminaire Vieillissement et Travail, 2007
Barros Carla, Cunha Liliana ; INSAT 2010 Inquérito Saúde e Trabalho: outras questões, novas relações, Laboreal, 6, (2), 19-26, 2010
Actes du séminaire Expérience professionnelle et gestion de la sécurité au travail, 2010

Teaching methods and learning activities

1. Contact activities:
Lecture;
Group discussion and at a theme classroom;
To attend the development in the working field;
Discussion of the presented report;
2. Autonomous activities
To search for information sources;
To read and to analyse the documentary and written sources;
To execute data collect in the field;
To make a report;
To reflect about the developed work

keywords

Social sciences > Psychological sciences > Psychology
Social sciences > Psychological sciences > Psychology

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Eligibility for exams

Assiduity is not a requisite for success in the course.

Calculation formula of final grade

In the evaluation the following items will be considered:
1. Written test (50%)
2. Group written report (50%)
The classifications of each component and the final classification will be communicated to students in a scale of 0 to 20 marks.
The classifications of each components and the final classification will be qualified in a 0-20 scale mark. If a valuation component is not done it will have a 0 marks valuation. The minimum demand classification is:
- 25% in written text
- 25% in the group written report

Examinations or Special Assignments

Unforeseen

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

The final classifications of the students with a special status (working students, high-competition athletes, etc.) concern the same evaluation components of the other students. The work will be guided by the rules of functioning of all students.

Classification improvement

The improvement will be limited to the repetition of the written text.
The recourse of partial classifications is possible through new works if equivalent to those which classifications are being the object of recourse.
The recourse will be limited to the components that can be, by nature, subject to repeating and for that it will permit to redefine the initial classification.

Observations

Special situations will be discussed with the teaching team at the beginning of uc.