Video: Social Support, Development of Cancer, and Cancer Survival
Epidemiology researchers in one study exploring the effects of social support on cancer survival, interviewed 244 breast cancer patients. The patients were asked how many people they confided in during...
View ArticleVideo: Meaningful Relationships Reduce Odds of Developing Cancer
In one of the longest-running prospective studies, 1300 medical students at Johns Hopkins were followed for forty years. While at Hopkins they were given psychological tests exploring the ability of...
View ArticleVideo: Openheartedness and Love Confer Health
Studies by James McKay found that people who are open and friendly to strangers had half the rate of major illnesses of those who kept a cold and distant attitude toward strangers. These “affiliator...
View ArticleVideo: Social Support Reduces the Odds of Developing Cancer
In a substantial study of three thousand breast cancer patients, all of whom were nurses, completed in 2006, researchers found that women without close friends had a mortality rate of four times that...
View ArticleVideo: Social Support Reduces the Odds of Developing Cancer
In a very famous epidemiology study, one of the most referenced of its kind because of its impressive sample size, UC Berkeley researchers Dr. Lisa Berkman and Dr. Leonard Syme studied seven thousand...
View ArticleVideo: Doing Volunteer Work Improves Health
In the famous Tecumseh study of almost three thousand people by psychology researcher James House (et al. 1988) at the University of Michigan, an interesting tidbit of information emerged. While this...
View ArticleVideo: In Your Own Hands: A Course in Self-Empowerment
Since January of 2015, I have been teaching a class in the Continuing Education Department at the College of Marin in Kentfield, California. Since January of 2016, I have been co-teaching the class...
View ArticleVideo: Be of Service to Others for Your Own Health
When psychoneuroimmunology researchers Dr. Julienne Bower and Dr. Margaret Kemeny (Bower et al. 1998) studied HIV-positive men who had lost partners or close friends to AIDS at the peak of the AIDS...
View ArticleYou Can Survive Even the Most Painful Feelings
It is normal to believe that we would not be able to survive a traumatic life event such as the death of our child, our spouse being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, or any number of other tragic and...
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