National Stress Awareness Day - 6th of November 2013

Today, the 6th of November, is the National Stress Awareness Day. 

For the occasion, here are five anti stress tips from Huffinton Post: 
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/beth-burgess/anti-stress-tips_b_4218815.html

Maternal depression and anxiety and children's mental health

Our former doctoral projects are mentioned at the webpages of The Norwegian Research Council's webpages as well as forskning.no and barnehage.no.Shortly said, our theses are about maternal depression and anxiety, and adolescent depression symptoms. Feel free to read more in our doctoral thesis:
Symptoms of depression and anxiety during the child rearing period : A longitudinal study of Norwegian mothers, by Skipstein, Anni
and
Depressive symptoms in adolescence : A longitudinal study of predictors, pathways, and consequences, by Nilsen, Wendy

Free online version of Marx's "Das Kapital" in english

Free online version of Karl Marx's: "Das Kapital": http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/

Free online version of Engels' "The Condition of the Working-Class in England"

Free online version of Frederick Engels' The conditions of the working class in England:

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17306/17306-h/17306-h.htm

Conference in Oslo: New perspectives on sickness absence and retirement - in September 2013

The Sickness absence, work and health programme under the Research Council of Norway will be holding an international researcher conference in Oslo on 23–24 September 2013.

See:
http://www.forskningsradet.no/prognett-sykefravaer/Artikkel/International_researcher_conference_New_perspectives_on_sickness_absence_and_retirement/1253984950743

We will present findings about longitudinal relationships between mental health problems and sick leave from a gender specific perspective - with results from 1) a systematic review (Anni Skipstein’s presentation), and 2) a longitudinal study following mothers and fathers across four years (Wendy Nilsen’s presentation).

Conference in London: Occupational Health Psychology, April 2014

The European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology conference in April, 2014 in London.


Deadline for submissions: 30 September 2013

Conference in N.Y: Work and Family researchers network 19-21 juni i 2014

The Work and Family Researchers Network (tidligere the Sloan Work and Family Research Network) is arranging a Work and Family conference 19-21 june 2014 in New York.

We are presenting two posters and one oral presentation, 
AND ARE ESPECIALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO:

1. Finally going to a conference that both focuses on work/occupational health and family!
2. Going to NEW YORK !!!!!!


DATES:
19 - 21 June 2014

Submission deadline is October 18, 2013.

PLACE:
New York, U.S.A

WEBPAGE:
http://workfamily.sas.upenn.edu/content/conference


 

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This blog will contain information about several occupational health issues, such as sickness absence, work-home factors, burnout, job satisfaction and mental health.

We will publish upcoming interesting conferences, summaries from articles and book chapters, and conference presentations.

Eventually, we will also publish findings from our own studies.

The blog is connected to the project: "Work-home strains, psychological distress and sickness absence among mothers – A prospective study of mechanisms and protective factors" at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (Nasjonalt Folkehelseinstitutt). The project is financed by the Norwegian Research Council.

The project includes the Tracking Opportunities and Problems-study (The TOPP-study) and the MoBa-study. The blog contributors are Wendy Nilsen and Anni Skipstein, who both are post doctoral candidates on this project.