Sentences with phrase «health psychologist at»

«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.

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.

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.

According to Jennifer Hay, who is a behavioral scientist and clinical health psychologist at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, public health campaigns concerning skin cancer are mostly linked to skin tone.

«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.

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.

Kelly McGonigal, a health psychologist at Stanford, thinks we spend too much time worrying about stress and not enough harnessing it to learn and grow.

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.

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.

His survey of the social science literature on the topic usefully, if sometimes turgidly, compiles the growing evidence that homeschooled children learn more than their counterparts, at least to the extent that standardized tests measure learning, and are emotionally healthier as well, at least to the extent that psychologists» «self - esteem and self - concept» scales truly capture emotional health.

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.

These questions are the same as those to which we have addressed ourselves in a five - year National Institute of Mental Health Research and Training Project for the training of clergymen in the field of alcoholism conducted at the Georgian Clinic (1964 - 69)(«Pilot Project for Clinical Training of Clergymen in The Field of Alcoholism» NIMH Grant # 8589, staffed by: George P. Dominick, Co-Director; John M. Crow, Coordinator of Training; Melvin B. Drurker, Clinical Psychologist for Evaluation.)

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.»

«A mother's self - image greatly influences how her daughter views herself,» says D'Arcy Lyness, PhD, a child and adolescent psychologist and behavioral health editor at KidsHealth.

Psychologists offer some suggestions for mothers who want to encourage their children to succeed, but not at the expense of their mental and emotional health.

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.

«When considering feeding options, it's important for you both to assess, in an ongoing way, what you each expect to do, and, ultimately, what is realistic for you and your new baby,» says Shara Marrero Brofman, PsyD, a reproductive and perinatal psychologist at the Seleni Institute, a nonprofit organization that specializes in women's maternal and reproductive mental health.

Parents may seek the assistance of a developmental psychologist to help kids deal with potential problems that might arise at this age including social, emotional, and mental health issues.

But lead researcher Pilyoung Kim, a developmental psychologist at the National Institutes of Mental Health who worked at Yale when the research was conducted, cautions against feeling smug — or depressed.

«Know that it's always OK to seek support from a mental health professional to navigate these potentially complicated issues and to engage in self - care,» says Shara Marrero Brofman, PsyD, a reproductive and perinatal psychologist at the Seleni Institute, a nonprofit organization that specializes in women's maternal and reproductive mental health.

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.

A practicing clinical psychologist and former fellow at the National Institute of Child Health and Development, Harriet J. Smith she has published many journal articles over the years.

According to the Deputy Director of Community Care at the Authority, Mrs. Priscilla Tawiah Elikplim, regular funding of mental health and recruitment of clinical psychologists and counselors is critical to ensuring...

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.

CHILDREN with certain mental health conditions are at greater risk of developing a debilitating addiction to the internet, warn psychologists in Taiwan.

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.

For example, in a 2008 study psychologist Kelley Drummond and her colleagues interviewed 25 adult women who were referred by their parents for assessment at a mental health clinic when they were between three and 12 years old.

«Our study shows that the early stress of separation from a biological parent impacts long - term programming of genome function; this might explain why adopted children may be particularly vulnerable to harsh parenting in terms of their physical and mental health,» said Szyf's co-author, psychologist Elena Grigorenko of the Child Study Center at Yale.

«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.

Since 2009 clinical psychologist Bruce Cuthbert and his team at the National Institute of Mental Health have been constructing a classification system based on recent research, which is revealing how the structure and activity of a mentally ill brain differs from that of a healthy one.

«Locomotors, more than assessors, benefited from the app, as the relationship between locomotion and performance over time was a bit stronger,» says one of the researchers, Michelle Dugas, a social psychologist and post-doctoral researcher at UMD's Center for Health Information & Decision Systems (CHIDS).

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.

Biologists, chemists, psychologists and a range of other scientists wanted to study the environmental, economic and mental health consequences of the disaster; local scientists wanted to study the effects of the spill on their communities; and leaders at the local and federal government needed guidance on how to respond.

«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 students.

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.

«Our findings showed that an in increase in methylation of the SKA2 gene is associated with decreased cortical thickness in the prefrontal cortex, which may play a role in the development of PTSD and may explain why this gene predicts risk for mental health problems, like PTSD and suicide,» explained lead and corresponding author Naomi Samimi Sadeh, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry at BUSM and a psychologist in the National Center for PTSD at VA Boston.

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.

Yolken's wife, Faith Dickerson, is a clinical psychologist at Sheppard Pratt Health System in Baltimore.

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.

«This kind of intervention study is exactly what we need more of,» says Megan Moreno, a clinical psychologist at Seattle Children's Hospital in Washington who uses Facebook data to study adolescent health and well - being.

At the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's Laboratory of Comparative Ethology (LCE) in Poolesville, Md., headed by psychologist Stephen Suomi, infant monkeys are taken from their mothers often within hours of birth.

«Loss of control eating is related to a variety of psychological health concerns, including depression and anxiety,» said Richard E. Boles, Ph.D., pediatric psychologist in the Bariatric Surgery Center at Children's Colorado.

Professor Hunter is a clinical academic psychologist, and professor in the Health Psychology Section of the Department of Psychology based at Guy's Campus.

LA JOLLA — In their powerful new road map for greater health throughout our lives, Salk President and Nobel laureate Elizabeth Blackburn and health psychologist Elissa Epel explain an important aspect of the aging process in humans at a fundamental level.

Kelly McGonigal, a health psychologist and lecturer at Stanford University, says that guilt is one of the leading causes of diet «slip - ups.»

«With some couples where there is a large age difference, energy levels may differ,» says Rachel Needle, a psychologist at the Center for Marital and Sexual Health of South Florida in West Palm Beach.

«If you are experiencing stress and anxiety during the day, then it is most certainly going to come to bed with you at night,» says health psychologist Dr Marny Lishman.

«There's a perception that people with higher IQs might be more neurotic, more anxious, and more depressed — Woody Allen style,» says Karestan Koenen, PhD, a clinical psychologist and associate professor at the Harvard School of Public Health.