Reducing Teachers’ Work-Family Conflict

Work-family conflict is a vocational psychology variable whose antecedents and outcomes have been extensively investigated. In contrast, less effort has been invested in creating practical programs to prevent and reduce it. This article provides the rationale and describes the framework for a comprehensive organizational program designed to ease employees’ work-family conflict. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the program combines primary and secondary interventions aimed at school managers and teachers. The program is grounded in work-family conflict models, social cognitive career theory, and the literature on health promotion in organizations and includes process variables comprising critical career intervention components.

Complexity and Team Dynamics in Multiple Intervention Programmes

Psychologists engaged in public health research and intervention will become more involved in multiple intervention programming approaches. Managing innovation and complexity is a challenge when the team members come from different disciplines, organizational cultures and research perspectives. This report captures some of those challenges with a participatory, capacity-building, community-based intervention over research stages. We detail successful and less successful attempts to manage the challenges within changing public health contexts and end with concrete suggestions for teams with mixed intervention and research goals. Insights from this project should inform similar programmes with multi-level, participatory, community-based approaches.

Transdisciplinary research for complex One Health issues: a scoping review of key concepts

In order to address the complexity inherent in researching One Health (OH) issues, we support the concept that researchers must transcend individual disciplinary and non-disciplinary boundaries, and move into the realm of transdisciplinary (TD) research approaches. For the purposes of this paper we use the term OH and the concept that OH research is conducted to solve complex health challenges at the animal-human--human-ecosystem interface. TD goes beyond interdisciplinary research to engages disciplines and communities through a unified conceptual framework. In this scoping review we investigated key concepts, definitions and themes in OH and TD based on the peer reviewed literature. We identified nine emerging themes in TD research: (1) education, (2) conflict amongst disciplines, (3) effective communication, (4) shared conceptual framework, (5) leadership, (6) perceived power differentials, (7) community-based methodologies, (8) support for TD research and (9) time and effort. This review provides a synthesized knowledge base that describes the nature, extent of evidence and challenges of engaging in TD initiatives. This knowledge base further provides a foundation for those interested in developing improved strategies for TD collaborative and cross-sectoral research in OH.

A prática do psicólogo hospitalar em equipe multidisciplinar

Este trabalho analisa a interação estabelecida no hospital entre a Psicologia e a Enfermagem para identificar aspectos capazes de promover a ação multidisciplinar. Foram entrevistadas sete psicólogas hospitalares, três enfermeiras, e observadas várias situações de intervenção psicológica. Os conteúdos obtidos foram analisados qualitativamente através de três etapas sinérgicas: descrição, análise indutiva e análise crítica. A descrição e a análise indutiva trazem a questão do poder hierárquico e da visão reducionista do médico como obstáculo à prática multidisciplinar. A Enfermagem reconhece a importância da intervenção psicológica, mas avalia que o psicólogo nem sempre consegue justificar a pertinência de um atendimento à equipe. A análise crítica destacou que a prática multidisciplinar depende de o psicólogo deslocar o foco da doença em si para uma visão mais integrada do processo saúde-doença, o que implica ser capaz de justificar procedimentos psicológicos de forma clara e objetiva.