UNISA Short Course in Employee Wellness
University of South Africa Short Course in Employee Wellness
To enable students to develop the competencies to enhance their or other’s personal psychological wellness in the work context. They will understand the factors/influences that inhibit personal psychological wellness, as well as those theories and construct that can be utilised to enhance it. The gained knowledge will aid students in compiling a personal development plan to enhance their psychological wellness. By enhancing their own psychological wellness, students will add value in their work context as well as in society by being able to guide others in the understanding and application of personal psychological wellness.
Industrial and Organisational Psychologists, Human Resource Managers and Practitioners, Employee Assistance Programme Practitioners and employees interested in personal psychological wellness in the work context
Senior Certificate or an equivalent NQF level 4 qualification
Six months
English
1st semester: January and 2nd semester: June
UNISA open distance learning combined with a reader, tutorial letters, learning experiences in the form of self-assessment activities and assessment (formative and summative) activities, a non-compulsory two and a half day workshop will be held in Pretoria each semester
Note:
Formative assessment and examination admission will comply with UNISA’s formative assessment rules and policies
Formative assessment:
Any of three voluntary assignments
Summative assessment:
A two-hour written examination and obtain at least a mark of 50%
- Conceptualisation of personal psychological wellness in the work context
- The theory of partagogy applied to personal psychological wellness
- Factors or influences that inhibit personal psychological wellness
- Theory, models, constructs and application of salutogenesis
- Theory, models, constructs and application of positive psychology
- Using the above theoretical foundation to assess and improve employee wellness
Dr S C Coetzee DPhil
Discipline expertise: research and positive psychology
Centre for Industrial and Organisational Psychology
Office 4-013 A J H van der Walt Building, UNISA
Tel: 012 429 8243
Fax: 012 429 8363
E-mail: coetzsc@unisa.ac.za
Ms M J Maphalla
Centre for Industrial and Organisational Psychology
Office: 03-102, A J H van der Walt Building, UNISA
Tel: 012 429 8548 / 8005
Fax: 012 429 8578
E-mail: iop@unisa.ac.za