According to a fascinating TED talk by Stanford
University health psychologist Kelly McGonigal, new studies suggest the answer might be stress.
Not exact matches
Mintz does not refer at all to research by developmental
psychologists such as Jay Belsky of London's Birkbeck College and Alan Sroufe of the
University of Minnesota; nor does he cite the huge, multicenter National Institute of Child
Health studies, all of which suggest that more than 20 hours per week of child care beginning before the age of one correlates with a higher incidence of interpersonal difficulties by early grade school.
In some cases the person is a psychiatrist (as is the case at the Temple
University Mental
Health Center in Philadelphia) or a
psychologist, but most frequently he is a social worker.
Dr. Brian Wansink, a food
psychologist at Cornell
University and author of Slim by Design: Mindless Eating Solutions for Everyday Life, says, «People who are attracted to meat - shaped veggie foods are vegetarian for
health reasons, not animal - rights reasons, and they're the biggest growing part of that market.»
Ann M. Lagges, Ph.D., H.S.P.P., a
psychologist specializing in Child and Adolescent Assessment and Treatment and Pediatric Psychology at Indiana
University Health offers some tried and true strategies.
Our expert Kathy Kendall - Tackett, Ph.D., is a
health psychologist, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant and clinical associate professor of pediatrics at Texas Tech
University School of Medicine in Amarillo, Texas.
Humanitarian
psychologist Aala El - Khani, PhD, with the
University of Manchester in the UK, has done extensive work in protecting and restoring mental
health to children of families affected by armed conflict.
Low socio - economic status and fear of abandonment early in life can lead to poor
health in adulthood, regardless of adult socio - economic status, according to a new study from
psychologists at Rice
University.
That question was the title of an October 2017 talk I attended by Asheley R. Landrum, a
psychologist at Texas Tech
University, who studies factors influencing the public understanding and perception of science,
health and emerging technologies.
In part, that may be because
health care professionals are focused on helping people who are struggling, says clinical
psychologist George Bonanno of Columbia
University's Teachers College.
This is what
health psychologists at the
universities of Luxembourg, Mainz and San Francisco found in a study conducted under the direction of Dr Heike Spaderna,
University of Wuppertal, and Prof. Dr. Gerdi Weidner, San Francisco State
University, in collaboration with the Eurotransplant International Foundation of Leiden.
Their rates of these mental
health issues are at least as high as those reported by victims of both child abuse and bullying, say
psychologist Dieter Wolke of the
University of Warwick in Coventry, England, and his colleagues.
The result is isolation, depression and further deterioration of their physical condition, a veritable downward spiral,» explains Prof Dr Claus Vögele, a
health psychologist at the
University of Luxembourg and one of the study's authors.
«Learning about the review process gives you a completely different perspective when you're writing yourself,» says Angela Dougall, who is a
health psychologist at the
University of Texas at Arlington and became an ECR last year.
«Research on 9 / 11 - related PTSD has challenged the ways in which mental
health researchers assess exposure to trauma,» Yuval Neria, of Columbia
University's psychiatry and epidemiology departments, and his colleagues wrote in a new paper published in the September issue of American
Psychologist.
«Focus, willpower, and the ability to tackle difficult projects all draw from a limited reserve of energy,» writes Kelly McGonigal, a
health psychologist based at Stanford
University in Palo Alto, California, in an e-mail to Science Careers.
The HOPE intervention, led by
psychologist Sean Young, Ph.D., associate professor of family medicine and executive director of the
University of California Institute for Prediction Technology, aims to harness the immense power of social media to improve public
health.
Nadia Wager, a
psychologist at Buckinghamshire Chilterns
University College in England, finds that working for a boss you hate is not just hard on the psyche — it could also lead to serious
health problems.
National Institutes of
Health Director Francis Collins, Harvard
University psychologist Steven Pinker, and DNA discoverer James Watson all have had part of their genomes decoded.
«It's important for students to hear a diversity of views,» says
health psychologist Cathie Atkins, an associate dean at San Diego State
University, who notes that the university's MARC program includes workshops that are open to non-MARC
University, who notes that the
university's MARC program includes workshops that are open to non-MARC
university's MARC program includes workshops that are open to non-MARC students.
Former Harvard
University psychologist Marc Hauser fabricated and falsified data and made false statements about experimental methods in six federally funded studies, according to a report released yesterday by the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services's Office of Research Integrity (ORI).
Health psychologist David Victorson, the principal investigator of the study and an associate professor of medical social sciences at Northwestern
University Feinberg School of Medicine, researches the emotional stress of active surveillance and how mindfulness training helps alleviate the anxiety.
Cognitive
psychologist Nora Newcombe of Temple
University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who studies childhood learning, writes that although «it's nice to be exempted from the regulatory burden,» she worries that if her research isn't considered
health - related, «will there later be criticism of funding from NIH?»
But a much cited study, published in 1984 in the journal Science by environmental
psychologist Roger Ulrich, now at Texas A&M
University, was the first to use the standards of modern medical research — strict experimental controls and quantified
health outcomes — to demonstrate that gazing at a garden can sometimes speed healing from surgery, infections and other ailments.
Gage is a
psychologist and epidemiologist at the
University of Liverpool interested in understanding the associations between recreational substance use and mental
health.
Psychologists from the
University of Basel analyzed 36 drug trials in cooperation with colleagues from Harvard Medical School and the American National Institute of Mental
Health.
Clearer, but less dramatic, evidence for overdiagnosis comes from a 2012 study in which
psychologist Katrin Bruchmüller of the
University of Basel and her colleagues found that when given hypothetical vignettes of children who fell short of the DSM - IV diagnosis, about 17 percent of the 1,000 mental
health professionals surveyed mistakenly diagnosed the kids with ADHD.
Kato has spent 15 years designing games, but initially trained as a
psychologist, first at Harvard and then at Stanford, while Bender studied
health and behavioral sciences at the
University of Toronto.
Many parents talk about rumored
health risks from immunizations or their negative view of the pharmaceutical industry, for instance, but those may not be the true reasons, says
psychologist Stephan Lewandowsky of the
University of Bristol in the United Kingdom.
That's the question
psychologist Patricia Devine of the
University of Wisconsin in Madison has spent the past 4 years — and more than $ 1 million from the National Institutes of
Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland — trying to answer with an unusual experiment.
In The Telomere Effect: A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, Longer, Blackburn — together with co-author Elissa Epel, a leading
health psychologist at the
University of California San Francisco who studies stress, aging, and obesity — outlines how the length and maintenance of one's telomeres provide a biological basis for bettering
health.
Kelly McGonigal, a
health psychologist and lecturer at Stanford
University, says that guilt is one of the leading causes of diet «slip - ups.»
Holiday stress solution: Drop some of those expectations and stay in the moment, advises Shilagh Mirgain, PhD, a
health psychologist at the
University of Wisconsin - Madison.
Cindy Schultz, MA, LP,
University of Minnesota Center for Spirituality and Healing Cindy Schultz is a practicing holistic
psychologist and
health coach with more than 20 years of experience, helping people to connect with their passions, explore their deepest fears, and to find their own paths to healing.
Dr Peta Stapleton has 20 years experience as a registered Clinical &
Health Psychologist & is currently an Associate Professor in Psychology at Bond
University (Australia).
«The weight is distributed in a standing position,» says Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D., a
health psychologist at Stanford
University and a leading expert in neck and back pain.
He's a licensed
psychologist,
health coach, and international presenter as well as an adjunct professor at Xavier
University in Cincinnati,
University of Pennsylvania, and IE
University in Madrid, Spain.
In addition to her DFC responsibilities, she is an Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke
University Medical Center, a Licensed
Psychologist and a certified
Health Services Provider in North Carolina.
The yoga program used in the study is a low - impact way for fibromyalgia patients to get moving, and it may even change the way the central nervous system responds to pain, says James Carson, PhD, the lead researcher and a
psychologist at the Oregon
Health and Science
University, in Portland.
Dr. Brian Wansink, a food
psychologist at Cornell
University and author of Slim by Design: Mindless Eating Solutions for Everyday Life, Â says, â $ People who are attracted to meat - shaped veggie foods are vegetarian for
health reasons, not animal - rights reasons, and theyâ $ ™ re the biggest growing part of that market.â $
When San Diego State
University Professor Jean Twenge, a
psychologist who studies generational shifts, saw a spike in teen mental
health issues between 2011 and 2015, she wanted to find out why.
Laurence Steinberg, a
psychologist at Temple
University, has devoted his career to studying adolescents, including their cognitive and emotional development and
health.
CHAH employs a full - time social worker and
psychologist and hosts five social work interns from Hunter College and Columbia
University; each student gets a mental
health diagnostic exam each year, in addition to vision screenings and access to other
health resources.
After receiving his doctorate, he worked in private practice and at the
University of Colorado
Health Sciences Center, and later as a staff
psychologist at The Children's Hospital in Denver, where he focused his attention on pediatric cancer patients.
After receiving his doctorate, White not only worked in private practice but also at the
University of Colorado
Health Sciences Center, and later as a staff
psychologist at The Children's Hospital in Denver, where he focused his attention on pediatric cancer patients.
And in a separate study, Brigham Young
University psychologists found that having only weak social connections in your life is practically just as bad for your
health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day or being obese.
McGonigal, a professor at Stanford
University, and a
health psychologist with a background in medicine and psychology, says that for most of her career she believed that stress was bad too, until she dug into the research.
Eighty - one percent of school
psychologists work within public school settings, and the remainder work in private schools, hospitals,
universities, community agencies, mental
health clinics and private practice.
Capella
University is effective at equipping students via its mental
health counseling courses to be successful
psychologists, therapists, psychiatrists, counselors, etc. and connect them to future employers.
Mental
Health Counseling students from
University schools who go on to become
psychologists, therapists, psychiatrists, counselors, etc. have a good chance at finding employment.