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introduction to the special issue of the sbm mid career leadership institute leadership and Behavioral Medicine in context
Translational behavioral medicine, 2020Co-Authors: Marian L Fitzgibbon, Caryn E Peterson, Lila Finney J Rutten, Amy L YarochAbstract:In 2016, we established the year-long Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM) Mid-Career Leadership Institute. Individuals are often selected for leadership positions without intentional training in needed leadership skills, including strategic planning, building collaborative teams, goal setting, negotiation, and communication. The purpose of the Leadership Institute is to: (a) provide opportunities for mid-career professionals to build and sustain their leadership capacity; (b) create cohorts of connected fellows in Behavioral Medicine fields, disciplines, and institutions, who can support one another throughout their professional careers; and (c) enhance specific skills needed to navigate the challenges of mid-career. Over the first 4 years of the Institute, 139 fellows have participated, representing 35 states. Most of the fellows hold PhDs (93%) as a terminal degree. This special issue is dedicated to the leadership experiences of fellows, faculty, senior SBM mentors, peer mentors, and executive coaches.
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society of Behavioral Medicine sbm urges congress to ensure efforts to increase and enhance broadband internet access in rural areas
Translational behavioral medicine, 2020Co-Authors: Sabrina Ford, Marian L Fitzgibbon, Joanna Buscemi, Kelly A Hirko, Melissa H Laitner, Robert L Newton, Charles R Jonassaint, Lisa M KlesgesAbstract:: The Society for Behavioral Medicine (SBM) recommends expanding access to high-speed, high-definition internet and increasing broadband width for rural communities in the USA to increase telehealth opportunities for populations facing geographic barriers to accessing quality healthcare. High-speed telehealth will allow healthcare providers to care for patients in "real time" and will expand access to specialty providers thereby increasing timely follow-up, improving health outcomes, and reducing rural health disparities. Moreover, SBM recommends that the current National Broadband Plan legislation be protected and enhanced to ensure high-quality, but also affordable, internet services in rural areas. Several legislative bills have been put forth but are not fully funded or enacted by individual states. In addition, further mechanisms and supplemental funding are needed to address the continued lack of resources to enhance rural broadband including infrastructure, research, and regulatory reform.
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society of Behavioral Medicine call to action include obesity overweight management education in health professional curricula and provide coverage for behavior based treatments of obesity overweight most commonly provided by psychologists dieticians
Translational behavioral medicine, 2020Co-Authors: Judith K Ockene, Marian L Fitzgibbon, Joanna Buscemi, Karen M Ashe, Kenneth S Peterson, Akilah DulinAbstract:Obesity is a serious chronic disease whose prevalence has grown to epidemic proportions over the past five decades and is a major contributor to the global burden of most common cancers, heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, liver disease, and sleep apnea. Primary care clinicians, including physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants, are often the first health care professionals to identify obesity or overweight during routine long-term care and have the opportunity to intervene to prevent and treat disease. However, they often lack the training and skills needed to deliver scientifically validated, behavior-based treatments. These gaps must be addressed in order to treat the obesity epidemic. The Society of Behavioral Medicine strongly urges health professional educators and accrediting agencies to include obesity and overweight management education for primary care clinicians. Additionally, we support promoting referrals and reimbursement for psychologists, dieticians, and other health care professionals as critical members of the care team and improving reimbursement levels for Behavioral obesity and overweight management treatment.
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sbm recommends policy support to reduce smoking disparities for sexual and gender minorities
Translational behavioral medicine, 2018Co-Authors: Phoenix Alicia Matthews, Amanda C Blok, Joseph G L Lee, Brian Hitsman, Lisa Sanchezjohnsen, Karriem S Watson, Elizabeth Breen, Raymond Ruiz, Melissa A Simon, Marian L FitzgibbonAbstract:The Society of Behavioral Medicine supports the inclusion of gender and sexual minorities in all local, state, and national tobacco prevention and control activities. These activities include surveillance of tobacco use and cessation activities, targeted outreach and awareness campaigns, increasing access to culturally appropriate tobacco use dependence treatments, and restricting disproportionate marketing to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities by the tobacco industry, especially for mentholated tobacco products.
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a 6 year update of the health policy and advocacy priorities of the society of Behavioral Medicine
Translational behavioral medicine, 2017Co-Authors: Joanna Buscemi, Sherry L Pagoto, Dawn K Wilson, James F Sallis, Gary G Bennett, Sherri Sheinfeld Gorin, Marian L FitzgibbonAbstract:Government policy affects virtually every topic of interest to health behavior researchers, from research funding to reimbursement for clinical services to application of evidence to impact health outcomes. This paper provides a 6-year update on the expansion of Society of Behavioral Medicine's (SBM) public policy and advocacy agenda and proposed future directions. SBM's Health Policy Council is responsible for ensuring coordination of the policy-related activities of the Health Policy Committee (HPC), the Civic and Public Engagement Committee (CPEC), and the Scientific and Professional Liaison Council (SPLC). These committees and councils have written letters to Congress, signed onto advocacy letters with hundreds of organizations, and developed and disseminated 15 health policy briefs, the majority of which have been presented to legislative staffers on Capitol Hill. With the assistance of the SPLC, SBM has collaborated on policy efforts with like-minded organizations to increase the impact of the Society's policy work. Moving forward, SBM plans to continue to increase efforts to disseminate policy work more broadly and develop long-term relationships with Congressional staffers. SBM leadership realizes that to remain relevant, demonstrate impact, and advance the role of Behavioral Medicine, we must advance a policy agenda that reflects our mission of better health through behavior change.
Joanna Buscemi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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society of Behavioral Medicine sbm urges congress to ensure efforts to increase and enhance broadband internet access in rural areas
Translational behavioral medicine, 2020Co-Authors: Sabrina Ford, Marian L Fitzgibbon, Joanna Buscemi, Kelly A Hirko, Melissa H Laitner, Robert L Newton, Charles R Jonassaint, Lisa M KlesgesAbstract:: The Society for Behavioral Medicine (SBM) recommends expanding access to high-speed, high-definition internet and increasing broadband width for rural communities in the USA to increase telehealth opportunities for populations facing geographic barriers to accessing quality healthcare. High-speed telehealth will allow healthcare providers to care for patients in "real time" and will expand access to specialty providers thereby increasing timely follow-up, improving health outcomes, and reducing rural health disparities. Moreover, SBM recommends that the current National Broadband Plan legislation be protected and enhanced to ensure high-quality, but also affordable, internet services in rural areas. Several legislative bills have been put forth but are not fully funded or enacted by individual states. In addition, further mechanisms and supplemental funding are needed to address the continued lack of resources to enhance rural broadband including infrastructure, research, and regulatory reform.
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society of Behavioral Medicine call to action include obesity overweight management education in health professional curricula and provide coverage for behavior based treatments of obesity overweight most commonly provided by psychologists dieticians
Translational behavioral medicine, 2020Co-Authors: Judith K Ockene, Marian L Fitzgibbon, Joanna Buscemi, Karen M Ashe, Kenneth S Peterson, Akilah DulinAbstract:Obesity is a serious chronic disease whose prevalence has grown to epidemic proportions over the past five decades and is a major contributor to the global burden of most common cancers, heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, liver disease, and sleep apnea. Primary care clinicians, including physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants, are often the first health care professionals to identify obesity or overweight during routine long-term care and have the opportunity to intervene to prevent and treat disease. However, they often lack the training and skills needed to deliver scientifically validated, behavior-based treatments. These gaps must be addressed in order to treat the obesity epidemic. The Society of Behavioral Medicine strongly urges health professional educators and accrediting agencies to include obesity and overweight management education for primary care clinicians. Additionally, we support promoting referrals and reimbursement for psychologists, dieticians, and other health care professionals as critical members of the care team and improving reimbursement levels for Behavioral obesity and overweight management treatment.
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a 6 year update of the health policy and advocacy priorities of the society of Behavioral Medicine
Translational behavioral medicine, 2017Co-Authors: Joanna Buscemi, Sherry L Pagoto, Dawn K Wilson, James F Sallis, Gary G Bennett, Sherri Sheinfeld Gorin, Marian L FitzgibbonAbstract:Government policy affects virtually every topic of interest to health behavior researchers, from research funding to reimbursement for clinical services to application of evidence to impact health outcomes. This paper provides a 6-year update on the expansion of Society of Behavioral Medicine's (SBM) public policy and advocacy agenda and proposed future directions. SBM's Health Policy Council is responsible for ensuring coordination of the policy-related activities of the Health Policy Committee (HPC), the Civic and Public Engagement Committee (CPEC), and the Scientific and Professional Liaison Council (SPLC). These committees and councils have written letters to Congress, signed onto advocacy letters with hundreds of organizations, and developed and disseminated 15 health policy briefs, the majority of which have been presented to legislative staffers on Capitol Hill. With the assistance of the SPLC, SBM has collaborated on policy efforts with like-minded organizations to increase the impact of the Society's policy work. Moving forward, SBM plans to continue to increase efforts to disseminate policy work more broadly and develop long-term relationships with Congressional staffers. SBM leadership realizes that to remain relevant, demonstrate impact, and advance the role of Behavioral Medicine, we must advance a policy agenda that reflects our mission of better health through behavior change.
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society of Behavioral Medicine position statement early care and education ece policies can impact obesity prevention among preschool aged children
Translational behavioral medicine, 2015Co-Authors: Joanna Buscemi, Katelyn Kanwischer, Adam B Becker, Dianne S Ward, Marian L FitzgibbonAbstract:The Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM) urges policymakers to help prevent childhood obesity by improving state regulations for early care and education (ECE) settings related to child nutrition, physical activity, and screen time. More than three quarters of preschool-aged children in the USA attend ECE settings, and many spend up to 40 h per week under ECE care. ECE settings provide meals and snacks, as well as opportunities for increasing daily physical activity and reducing sedentary screen time. However, many states' current policies do not adequately address these important elements of obesity prevention. A growing number of cities and states, child health organizations, medical and early childhood associations, and academic researchers are beginning to identify specific elements of policy and regulations that could transform ECE settings into environments that contribute to obesity prevention. Let's Move! Child Care recommends a set of straightforward regulations addressing nutrition, physical activity, and screen time in ECE settings. These emerging models provide local and state leaders with concrete steps to implement obesity prevention initiatives. We provide a set of recommendations based upon these models that will help state and local policymakers to improve current policies in ECE settings.
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the impact of team science collaborations in health care a synopsis and comment on interprofessional collaboration effects of practice based interventions on professional practice and healthcare outcomes
Translational behavioral medicine, 2012Co-Authors: Joanna Buscemi, Jeremy Steglitz, Bonnie SpringAbstract:The eighth column on evidence-based Behavioral Medicine is a synthesis of the study of Zwarenstein et al. (1). which examines the effects of practice-based interventions to improve interprofessional collaboration. Poor interprofessional collaboration may have deleterious effects on quality of care. The purpose of the systematic review was to investigate whether interventions aimed at improving interprofessional collaboration affect patient satisfaction and/or the effectiveness and efficiency of care. Five randomized controlled trials were reviewed, examining studies that differed across setting, interventions, and outcomes. Of the five studies reviewed, three showed improvements in patient care, one found no effect, and one had mixed findings. Findings indicate that interventions aimed at improving interprofessional care may improve outcomes, but interpretation of these findings is limited due to the small sample size and heterogeneity across studies reviewed.
Alan J Christensen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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standards for economic analyses of interventions for the field of health psychology and Behavioral Medicine
Health Psychology, 2019Co-Authors: Dawn K Wilson, Alan J Christensen, Paul B Jacobsen, Robert M KaplanAbstract:Behavioral interventions can be offered within a wide range of contexts, including public health, Medicine, surgery, physical rehabilitation, nutrition, and other health services. These differing services compete for the same resources and it is difficult to compare their value. Systematic standardized methodologies for valuing outcomes are available and are being applied by economists and health services researchers, but are not widely used in our field. With support from the Society for Health Psychology, the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and the Office for Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) at the National Institutes of Health, two working group meetings were held to consider the use of well-established cost-effectiveness methodologies for the evaluation of Behavioral and public health interventions. In this special section, we acknowledge a wide range of variability in terms of Behavioral interventions typically delivered in nonclinical versus more traditional clinical settings. Three articles address (1) standardizing methods for conducting cost-effectiveness and cost-utility analyses, (2) providing examples to illustrate progress in applying these methods to evaluate interventions delivered in whole or in part in clinical settings, and (3) providing nonclinical intervention examples selected to highlight the challenges and opportunities for evaluating the cost-effectiveness of interventions in more diverse settings. The ability of our field to communicate cost-effectiveness data to policy makers, employers, and insurers that incorporates implementation costs is central to the likelihood of our interventions being adopted by practitioners and reimbursed by payers. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
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Behavioral Medicine and clinical health psychology introduction to the special issue
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2013Co-Authors: Alan J Christensen, Arthur M NezuAbstract:This issue represents the 4th Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology special issue on Behavioral Medicine and clinical health psychology over the past 4 decades. Recent developments in health care policy, as well as in the maturation of the science, make a special issue in this area particularly timely. This collection includes state of the clinical science reviews, reports of clinical trials, and articles addressing theory and methods in Behavioral Medicine and clinical health psychology. A multilevel, ecological perspective that considers multiple levels of influences (e.g., cultural influences on behavior-health linkages, individual differences) is salient throughout many of the articles. Our hope is that this sampling of this broad field, and coverage of some key issues and areas, will play a role in stimulating the next 10 years of research, practice, and policy implementation in Behavioral Medicine and clinical health psychology.
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psychological factors associated with head and neck cancer treatment and survivorship evidence and opportunities for Behavioral Medicine
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2013Co-Authors: Bryant M Howren, Alan J Christensen, Lucy Hynds Karnell, Gerry F FunkAbstract:Individuals diagnosed with head and neck cancer (HNC) not only face a potentially life-threatening diagnosis but must endure treatment that often results in significant, highly visible disfigurement and disruptions of essential functioning, such as deficits or complications in eating, swallowing, breathing, and speech. Each year, approximately 650,000 new cases are diagnosed, making HNC the 6th most common type of cancer in the world. Despite this, however, HNC remains understudied in Behavioral Medicine. In this article, the authors review available evidence regarding several important psychosocial and Behavioral factors associated with HNC diagnosis, treatment, and recovery, as well as various psychosocial interventions conducted in this patient population, before concluding with opportunities for Behavioral Medicine research and practice.
Mutsuhiro Nakao - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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special series on the meaning of Behavioral Medicine in the psychosomatic field establishment of a core curriculum for Behavioral science in japan the importance of such a curriculum from the perspective of psychology
Biopsychosocial Medicine, 2016Co-Authors: Akihito Shimazu, Mutsuhiro NakaoAbstract:This article discusses the core curriculum for Behavioral science, from the perspective of psychology, recommended by the Japanese Society of Behavioral Medicine and seeks to explain how the curriculum can be effectively implemented in medical and health-related departments. First, the content of the core curriculum is reviewed from the perspective of psychology. We show that the curriculum features both basic and applied components and that the basic components are closely related to various aspects of psychology. Next, we emphasize two points to aid the effective delivery of the curriculum: 1) It is necessary to explain the purpose and significance of basic components of Behavioral science to improve student motivation; and 2) it is important to encourage student self-efficacy to facilitate application of the acquired knowledge and skills in clinical practice.
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anxiety is a good indicator for somatic symptom reduction through Behavioral Medicine intervention in a mind body Medicine clinic
Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 2001Co-Authors: Mutsuhiro Nakao, Gregory L. Fricchione, Patricia Martin Arcari, Patricia Myers, Patricia C Zuttermeister, Margaret Baim, Carol Lynn Mandle, Cynthia Medich, Carol L Wellsfederman, Margaret EnnisAbstract:Background: This study examined the effect of anxiety on symptom reduction through a Behavioral Medicine intervention in a Mind/Body Medicine Clinic. Method: Part
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somatization and symptom reduction through a Behavioral Medicine intervention in a mind body Medicine clinic
Behavioral Medicine, 2001Co-Authors: Mutsuhiro Nakao, Gregory L. Fricchione, Arthur J Barsky, Patricia Myers, Patricia C Zuttermeister, Herbert BensonAbstract:The authors assessed data from 1,148 outpatients in a 10-week medical symptom reduction program to determine the effectiveness of a Behavioral Medicine intervention among somatizing patients. The program included instruction in the relaxation response, cognitive restructuring, nutrition, and exercise. Before and after the intervention, the patients were evaluated on the Symptom Checklist-90 Revised (SCL-90R), the Medical Symptom Checklist, and the Stress Perception Scale. They were divided into high- and low-somatizing groups on the basis of the pretreatment SCL-90R somatization scale. At the end of the program, physical and psychological symptoms on the Medical Symptom Checklist and the SCL-90R were significantly reduced in both groups, with the reductions greater in the high-somatizing group. Improvements in stress perception were about the same in both groups, but the absence of an untreated control group precluded estimates of how much the improvements resulted from the Behavioral Medicine intervention and how much from natural healing over time.
Arthur M Nezu - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Behavioral Medicine and clinical health psychology introduction to the special issue
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2013Co-Authors: Alan J Christensen, Arthur M NezuAbstract:This issue represents the 4th Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology special issue on Behavioral Medicine and clinical health psychology over the past 4 decades. Recent developments in health care policy, as well as in the maturation of the science, make a special issue in this area particularly timely. This collection includes state of the clinical science reviews, reports of clinical trials, and articles addressing theory and methods in Behavioral Medicine and clinical health psychology. A multilevel, ecological perspective that considers multiple levels of influences (e.g., cultural influences on behavior-health linkages, individual differences) is salient throughout many of the articles. Our hope is that this sampling of this broad field, and coverage of some key issues and areas, will play a role in stimulating the next 10 years of research, practice, and policy implementation in Behavioral Medicine and clinical health psychology.
