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Embodying psychological thriving: physical thriving in response to stress - Thriving: Broadening the Paradigm Beyond Illness to Health

Journal of Social Issues, Summer, 1998 by Elissa S. Epel, Bruce S. McEwen, Jeannette R. Ickovics

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ELISSA EPEL is currently a clinical intern at the Palo Alto Veterans Hospital. She has completed the Ph.D. requirements in clinical psychology at Yale University. Her current research interests focus on psychoneuroendocrine profiles that predict healing or disease processes. The data reported here were part of her dissertation on cortisol, stress, coping, and body fat distribution, which was funded by the MacArthur Foundation Working Group on Socioeconomic Status and Health. Epel was the recipient of the APA Division 38 Student Research Award and the Society of Behavioral Medicine's Outstanding Dissertation Award.

BRUCE MCEWEN, a neuroscientist, is Professor and Head of the Harold and Margaret Milliken Hatch Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology at Rockefeller University, where he also received his Ph.D. He has served as Dean of Graduate Studies and is an editorial board member of numerous journals in his field as well as Past-President of the Society for Neuroscience and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He has more than 600 publications dealing with the effects of stress and sex hormones on brain functions. He has shown that gene expression can be regulated by the endocrine system, and has elucidated the effects of steroid hormones at molecular, cellular, and organismic levels. His work spans the social/psychological to the molecular level, and continues to have great impact on many fields, as well as important clinical implications.

JEANNETTE R. ICKOVICS is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health and of Psychology at Yale University. She received her Ph.D. in Applied Social Psychology from the George Washington University. Her research focuses on women and HIV/AIDS as well as more generally on the interaction of biomedical and psychosocial factors that promote good health and recovery. She received a Scholar Award from the American Foundation for AIDS Research (1993-1996), as well as the 1991 Distinguished Publication Award from the Association for Women in Psychology. She was the SPSSI Program Chair for the 1995 APA convention and served on its council from 1995 to 1997.

Embodying psychological thriving: physical thriving in response to stress - Thriving: Broadening the Paradigm Beyond Illness to Health

Journal of Social Issues, Summer, 1998 by Elissa S. Epel, Bruce S. McEwen, Jeannette R. Ickovics

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