title: A strategy for preventive psychosocial action in work settings.
abstract: An action research strategy for approaching psychosocial problems at work is described. It is based on the Norwegian Environment Act and uses broad participation, networks of supporting organizational units and a common arena, usually a work conference, as its main ingredients. By broad participation is meant organizational settings including workers and management, where discussions promote testing out of peoples theories towards a commonly agreed upon understanding of causal relations and remedies. It may be arranged several times in order to report and test different solutions tried out by the parties between sessions. It involves little or no outside expertise, only skill in designing the conference. It differs therefore from the-one-by one patient approach common to physicians, and uses the organization as its unit of intervention.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control*; D009664:Norway; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control*; D012307:Risk Factors; D012931:Social Environment; D012944:Social Support