Sentences with phrase «leading health psychologist»

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.

Elissa Epel is a leading health psychologist who studies stress, aging, and obesity.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

«More people than ever are surviving cancer due to the development of targeted and effective treatments,» said Shelley Johns, Psy.D., the clinical health psychologist and health services researcher who led the Regenstrief - IU study.

Dr Neesha Patel, the health psychologist who led the study, said: «Many of the people we interviewed have conflicting views about the causes of their diabetes which seems to have an impact on how they manage it.

«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.

[People with social anxiety] worry that their behavior will humiliate or embarrass themselves, offend others, and lead to rejection,» New York City - based clinical psychologist Ben Michaelis, PhD, explained to Health in a previous interview.

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

The sessions were led by a trained psychologist or another qualified health professional, and included about eight patients.

«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.

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.

Imagine Andrews Public Charter School has formed a partnership with Lynne Michael Blum, PhD, a leading clinical psychologist and an adjunct faculty member at The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, to conduct a series of workshops and training sessions designed to help Imagine Andrews teachers and administrators improve the way they meet the needs of children from military families.

Drawing on his experience as a health psychologist and using a wealth of cultural, historical and literary references that range from the Buddha, to Nazi concentration camps, to Dorothy in the land of Oz, he leads us to examine ourselves.

Our experienced Personal Injury Lawyers have access to leading medical practitioners, rehabilitation case managers, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech - language pathologists, psychologists and other health care practitioners.

Evidence of the effectiveness of certain psychoactive drugs, especially to treat serious depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia, have led to a more wide spread use of pharmaceuticals in conjunction with psychotherapy by medically qualified mental health nurse practitioners, psychiatrists, and in some states prescribing psychologists.

(California is the state that in the olden days before no - fault divorce had the psychologist - dominated reconciliation courts, the downfall of which courts led to the creation of the AFCC and «therapeutic jurisprudence» initiatives to market the same mental health services in divorce courts.)

It has been done by social workers, psychologists, nurses, case managers, emergency workers, domestic violence advocates, paraprofessionals, mental health counselors, substance abuse counselors, and even has been done in peer - led version.

Possibly, their personal experience «fit» better with girls than boys and led to a better treatment response, while the greater mental health experience of psychologists were equally applicable to boys and girls.

Nancy Wesson, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist (Psy9621) and Certified Group Psychotherapist (by the American Group Psychotherapy Association) with over 25 of experience leading psychotherapy groups in diverse settings including residential treatment, schools, mental health agencies, and private practice.

He is clinical consultant of the Center for Post-Trauma Therapy and Trauma Education, and has held many prestigious positions in the past: professor of Psychopathology of Chronic Traumatization at the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology at Utrecht University, psychologist / psychotherapist at the Sinai Center for Mental Health, Chief of Research at the Cats - Polm Institute, a lead psychotherapist at the Mental Health Center Buitenamstel, President of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Vice-President and Fellow of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation, and Fellow of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis.

Psychology Associates is a leading independent practice of over 100 clinical, counselling, neuropsychological, forensic and educational psychologists, who provide services across the life span and for a range of psychological challenges including learning difficulties, autistic spectrum conditions, attachment challenges, mental health difficulties, trauma - related conditions, personality and behavioural issues.