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Current Opinion in Psychology Apr 2020Specific features of ancestral ecologies had implications for the evolution of psychological mechanisms that regulate specific aspects of human cognition and behavior... (Review)
Review
Specific features of ancestral ecologies had implications for the evolution of psychological mechanisms that regulate specific aspects of human cognition and behavior within contemporary ecologies. These mechanisms produce predictably different attitudes, judgments and behavioral dispositions under different circumstances. This article summarizes two illustrative programs of research-one that focuses on the evolved psychology of disease-avoidance and its many implications, and the other that focuses on the evolved psychology of parental care-giving and its many implications. These programs of research exemplify the generative utility of evolutionary psychological conceptual methods within the domain of socio-ecological psychology.
Topics: Adaptation, Psychological; Biological Evolution; Caregivers; Humans; Immune System Phenomena; Parents; Psychology; Social Environment
PubMed: 31336251
DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2019.06.020 -
Health Psychology : Official Journal of... Sep 2019This special issue highlights the unique potential that health psychology-behavioral medicine has to dramatically contribute to understanding, prevention, and control of...
This special issue highlights the unique potential that health psychology-behavioral medicine has to dramatically contribute to understanding, prevention, and control of the growing prevalence of multimorbidity (i.e., concurrent prevalence of more than 1 chronic health disease or condition in an individual). The 9 articles published here include 8 full, peer-reviewed articles and an invited commentary. Topics include relevance, measurement, mechanisms, and interventions for multimorbidity. Some articles survey relevant empirical literature, detail the representation of multimorbidity in behavioral intervention trials, or present new empirical data, whereas others present guidelines and system-level proposals to improve health care for patients with multiple health conditions. These articles offer proposals, challenges, and future directions for which health psychology-behavioral medicine is admirably suited to contribute to understanding multimorbidity and improving public health. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
Topics: Behavioral Medicine; Chronic Disease; Humans; Multimorbidity; Psychology
PubMed: 31436462
DOI: 10.1037/hea0000783 -
The American Psychologist Nov 2021Persistent racist violence, health and economic disparities, and a divisive sociopolitical climate in the United States obviate the urgent need to address pressing...
Persistent racist violence, health and economic disparities, and a divisive sociopolitical climate in the United States obviate the urgent need to address pressing social issues. Psychologists are well-positioned to provide scientific and clinical expertise toward viable solutions, and can best do so through a public, outward-facing psychology that is socially engaged and advocacy-driven. We assert that discipline-wide adoption of a Scientist-Practitioner-Advocate (SPA) training model can help bridge divides between scientific or basic psychology and practice-oriented or applied psychology by demonstrating how all psychologists can and do bring their work to bear to benefit society. We first provide historical context regarding training and advocacy in psychology. We then explore challenges in formulating and implementing a SPA training model in contemporary academic environments across the discipline. We present findings regarding efforts to incorporate social justice and advocacy into psychology training, highlighting the experiences of one graduate program explicitly using the SPA model. Finally, we offer ideas and strategies for implementing a discipline-wide SPA training model for public psychology. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
Topics: Psychology; Social Justice; United States
PubMed: 35113590
DOI: 10.1037/amp0000855 -
Communications Biology Sep 2021There has been a fascination for centuries surrounding drivers of human behavior and the relationship between the ‘mind’ and the brain. However, there is an ongoing...
There has been a fascination for centuries surrounding drivers of human behavior and the relationship between the ‘mind’ and the brain. However, there is an ongoing disconnection between different research communities aiming to provide a mechanistic understanding about what underlies behavior, psychology and neuroscience. This comment outlines why this is a problem for scientific progress and replicability in brain sciences and considers how publishers can play a central role to help overcome the disconnect between, what should be, joint scientific communities.
Topics: Neurosciences; Psychology; Publishing
PubMed: 34535753
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-021-02634-9 -
Health Psychology : Official Journal of... Sep 2019The increasing prevalence of multimorbidity in the United States and the rest of the world poses problems for patients and for health care providers, care systems, and...
The increasing prevalence of multimorbidity in the United States and the rest of the world poses problems for patients and for health care providers, care systems, and policy. After clarifying the difference between comorbidity and multimorbidity, this article describes the challenges that the prevalence of multimorbidity presents for well-being, prevention, and medical treatment. We submit that health psychology and behavioral medicine have an important role to play in meeting these challenges because of the holistic vision of health afforded by the foundational biopsychosocial model. Furthermore, opportunities abound for health psychology/behavioral medicine to study how biological, social and psychological factors influence multimorbidity. This article describes three major areas in which health psychologists can contribute to understanding and treatment of multimorbidity: (a) etiology; (b) prevention and self-management; and (c) clinical care. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
Topics: Behavioral Medicine; Chronic Disease; Humans; Multimorbidity; Psychology
PubMed: 31436463
DOI: 10.1037/hea0000762 -
Rehabilitation Psychology Aug 2022The purpose of this study was to obtain information about psychology internship training programs involving work with individuals with disabilities receiving...
PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE
The purpose of this study was to obtain information about psychology internship training programs involving work with individuals with disabilities receiving rehabilitation services in the United States and Canada.
RESEARCH METHOD/DESIGN
The Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers (APPIC) directory was used to identify 426 training programs that listed supervised experience in rehabilitation psychology, and these programs were sent a survey assessing characteristics of their internship. There were 227 program directors who responded (53%), and 114 of them reported that their internship involved working with disabled persons receiving rehabilitation services.
RESULTS
The majority of training programs were at a hospital or subacute rehabilitation facility (Veteran Affairs and non-Veteran Affairs), and 41% of the programs were housed within an independent psychology department. Sixteen programs (15%) had faculty who were board certified by the American Board of Rehabilitation Psychology (ABRP).
CONCLUSIONS/IMPLICATIONS
Interns were exposed to a broad range of conditions, such as brain injuries, orthopedic, and spinal cord injuries, as well as comorbid psychiatric and substance use disorders. Interns were also provided various levels of training in ABRP competencies across programs. Opportunities to improve training with rehabilitation populations at the internship level include increasing didactics related to rehabilitation psychology and increasing opportunities to work with ABRP faculty. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
Topics: Canada; Disabled Persons; Humans; Internship and Residency; Psychology; Substance-Related Disorders; United States
PubMed: 35901374
DOI: 10.1037/rep0000449 -
American Journal of Community Psychology Dec 2023The American Journal of Community Psychology (AJCP) was founded in 1973 and has since its inception has been the flagship journal for the Society of Community Research...
The American Journal of Community Psychology (AJCP) was founded in 1973 and has since its inception has been the flagship journal for the Society of Community Research and Action. AJCP publishes leading scholarship in community psychology and social action research. This special issue celebrates the 50 years of scholarship in AJCP by curating and assembling previously published articles in virtual special issues (VSIs) with accompanying commentaries. Nine VSIs were compiled as part of this special issue. Each of these VSIs were organized around themes that are of critical importance to community psychology and each VSI summarizes what has been learned from their included articles and future directions for the field. In this paper, we introduce this special issue on this collection of VSIs, discussing how each of these VSIs endeavor to push the field forward.
Topics: Psychology; Periodicals as Topic
PubMed: 37971022
DOI: 10.1002/ajcp.12726 -
Journal of Comparative Psychology... Feb 2021The publication of the centennial year of the is an occasion to reflect on the state of our discipline. In this article, I focus on one aspect of comparative...
The publication of the centennial year of the is an occasion to reflect on the state of our discipline. In this article, I focus on one aspect of comparative psychology, namely, comparative cognition. This focus stems from my long-standing interest in comparative cognition. The trends and challenges in comparative cognition share many of the trends and challenges in the broader field of comparative psychology. In the first part of this article, I outline my perspective on the field. Next, I consider challenges. I end with a section on prospects for the future. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
Topics: Animals; Cognition; Psychology, Comparative
PubMed: 33555903
DOI: 10.1037/com0000271 -
School Psychology (Washington, D.C.) Jan 2021is an outlet for research on children, youth, educators, and families that has scientific, practice, and policy implications for education and educational systems. In...
is an outlet for research on children, youth, educators, and families that has scientific, practice, and policy implications for education and educational systems. In this editorial, the new leadership team is introduced and the vision for the journal over the next 4 years is articulated. Current and future journal operations, special topics, and opportunities for article dissemination are provided. Promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in the editorial process is described along with considerations of the open science movement within . (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
Topics: Adolescent; Child; Humans; Professional Competence; Psychology, Clinical; Psychology, Educational; Schools; Societies, Scientific
PubMed: 33646809
DOI: 10.1037/spq0000425 -
Integrative Psychological & Behavioral... Dec 2021This article asks what kind of science psychology should be and what new readings of Vygotsky can contribute to answering this question. Methodology and method are key...
This article asks what kind of science psychology should be and what new readings of Vygotsky can contribute to answering this question. Methodology and method are key to constituting psychology as a science. Hence, the focus is on three major methodologic-methodic approaches to what Vygotsky referred to in his Notebooks towards the end of his life as his and his colleagues' "acmeist psychology" - the objective-analytical, the method of double stimulation and the semic method. Each will be discussed in its own right, followed by a discussion of the interrelatedness of the three in order to provide stimulation for future possibilities. These possibilities - it will be argued - lie in decisively re-orienting psychology as a science that brings single cases and complex semiotic analyses to the fore and thereby also rethinks psychology's relation towards the arts, especially literature.
Topics: Humans; Psychology; Research Design
PubMed: 34515941
DOI: 10.1007/s12124-021-09634-8