Health and Wellness

Webinar: Latest in Health Coaching Research

This webinar presents a review of the latest in Health and Wellness Coaching given by Dr....

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Health Coaching Interventions With a Heart-Healthy Lenoir Project Client

The Heart-Healthy Lenoir Project is a multi-study project designed to reduce the risk burden of heart disease in Lenoir County, North Carolina. This case report examines one client’s experience in this project and the impact of health coaching interventions that were used....

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Positive psychotherapy for smoking cessation: Treatment development feasibility and preliminary results

Low positive and high negative affect (NA) predict low rates of smoking abstinence among smokers making a quit attempt. Positive psychotherapy can both increase positive affect (PA) and decrease NA and therefore may be a useful adjunct to behavioral smoking counseling....

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Literature Review on Health and Wellness Coaching

Article review by Kelly Davis Martin MPH, Founding Fellow ...

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2012 Video Interview with Ruth Wolever PhD

Interview with Ruth Wolever, PhD and Joan Ryan, JD and Founding Fellow of the Institute.  ...

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Relations of religiosity and spirituality with depressive symptoms in primary care adults: Evidence for hope agency and pathway as mediators

This study examined hope agency and pathway as potential mediators of the associations of religiosity and spirituality with depressive symptoms in an adult sample of 101 primary care adults....

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Expectancy violations and the search for meaning among breast cancer survivors

A number of theoretical perspectives suggest that expectancy violations (EVs) threaten a person’s sense of meaning and prompt efforts to reinstate meaning. Yet little to no research has explicitly examined whether EVs predict actual efforts to search for meaning....

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The affective personality sleep and autobiographical memories

Patterns of affect sleep and autobiographical memories seem related but there are no studies we know of to verify the notion. The purpose of this research is to investigate interrelationships’ between profiles of affect sleep and autobiographical memories. A cross-sectional design is employed....

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Eva Selhub MD and the Love Response

Eva M. Selhub M.D. is a Clinical Associate of the Benson Henry Institute for Mind/Body Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital. An Integrative Medicine Specialist she has a private practice in Waltham Massachusetts and she is also a clinical instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr....

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Personal Control: The Lifestyle We Choose that Promotes Physical and Emotional Health

Eighteen years ago I presented at the annual meeting of the Million Dollar Round Table, a conference attended by thousands of the most successful life insurance and financial services professionals in the world.  In my plenary talk I described several of the key characteristics of resilient individuals.  Afterwards I enjoyed spending t...

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