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Direct linkWalsh, Roger – American Psychologist, 2011
Mental health professionals have significantly underestimated the importance of lifestyle factors (a) as contributors to and treatments for multiple psychopathologies, (b) for fostering individual and social well-being, and (c) for preserving and optimizing cognitive function. Consequently, therapeutic lifestyle changes (TLCs) are underutilized…
Descriptors: Life Style, Mental Health, Therapy, Outcomes of Treatment
Cornum, Rhonda; Matthews, Michael D.; Seligman, Martin E. P. – American Psychologist, 2011
The Comprehensive Soldier Fitness (CSF) program is designed to increase psychological strength and positive performance and to reduce the incidence of maladaptive responses of the entire U.S. Army. Based on the principles of positive psychology, CSF is a historically unique approach to behavioral health in a large (1.1 million members)…
Descriptors: Military Personnel, Learning Modules, Thinking Skills, Resilience (Psychology)
Cacioppo, John T.; Reis, Harry T.; Zautra, Alex J. – American Psychologist, 2011
Resilience has been regarded narrowly as a quintessential individual property by most investigators. Social resilience, however, is inherently a multilevel construct, revealed by capacities of individuals, but also groups, to foster, engage in, and sustain positive social relationships and to endure and recover from stressors and social isolation.…
Descriptors: Social Isolation, Behavioral Sciences, Resilience (Psychology), Interpersonal Relationship
Miller, Thomas W. – American Psychologist, 2007
The impact of stressful life events on health has been the object of inquiry for decades. Health care professionals have studied how stressful life events may precipitate or contribute to the onset of illness. Traumatic events and experiences can profoundly affect physical and psychological well-being, which in turn may predispose an individual to…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Psychologists, Psychology, Coping
Stepakoff, Shanee; Hubbard, Jon; Katoh, Maki; Falk, Erika; Mikulu, Jean-Baptiste; Nkhoma, Potiphar; Omagwa, Yuvenalis – American Psychologist, 2006
From 1999 to 2005, the Minneapolis-based Center for Victims of Torture (CVT) served Liberian and Sierra Leonean survivors of torture and war living in the refugee camps of Guinea. A psychosocial program was developed with 3 main goals: (1) to provide mental health care; (2) to train local refugee counselors; and (3) to raise community awareness…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Mental Health, Group Counseling
Sheppard, Sean C.; Malatras, Jennifer Weil; Israel, Allen C. – American Psychologist, 2010
Several recent articles have explored the effects of military deployment on U.S. service members' mental health outcomes. Although increased attention has also begun to focus on the effects of deployment on military families, providing a conceptualization for the mechanisms of this process can help organize existing information and inform future…
Descriptors: Military Personnel, Mental Health, Family Relationship, Health Services
