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Crystal L. Park

Crystal L. Park

Title: Professor
Departmental Program: Clinical
E-mail: crystal.park@uconn.edu
Office Phone: (860) 486-3520
Home page: CHIP

Department of Psychology
406 Babbidge Road, Unit 1020
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-1020

Preferred Means of Contact: E-mail

 

Research Interests:

  • Stress and coping
  • Religiosity/spirituality
  • Meaning-making
  • Stress-related growth
  • Health psychology

Undergraduate courses:

  • Abnormal Psychology
  • Health Psychology

Graduate courses:

  • Health Psychology
  • Clinical Health Psychology

Representative Publications:

  • Park, C. L. (in press). Meaning making in cancer survivorship. In P. T. P. Wong (Ed.). Handbook of Meaning, 2nd Edition. Mahwah, NJ: Sage.
  • Park, C. L., Wortmann, J. H., & Edmondson, D. (in press). Religious struggle as a predictor of subsequent mental and physical well-being in heart failure patients. Journal of Behavioral Medicine.
  • Exline, J. J., Park, C. L., Smyth, J. M., & Carey, M. P. (2011). Anger toward God: Five foundational studies emphasizing predictors, doubts about God’s existence, and adjustment to bereavement and cancer. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100, 129-148.
  • Park, C. L., Chmielewski, J., & Blank, T. O. (2010). Post-traumatic growth: Finding positive meaning in cancer survivorship moderates the impact of intrusive thoughts on adjustment in younger adults. Psycho-Oncology, 19, 1139-1147.
  • Park, C. L. (2010). Making sense of the meaning literature: An integrative review of meaning making and its effects on adjustment to stressful life events. Psychological Bulletin, 136, 257–301.
  • Park, C. L., Edmondson, D., & Blank, T. O. (2009). Religious and non-religious pathways to stress-related growth in cancer survivors. Applied Psychology: Health & Well-Being, 1, 321-335.
  • Park, C. L., Zlateva, I., & Blank, T. O. (2009). Self-Identity after cancer: “Survivor”, “Victim”, “Patient”, and “Person with cancer”. Journal of GeneralInternal Medicine, 24(Supplement 2: Special issue on survivorship), S430-S435.
  • Park, C. L., Aldwin, C. M., Fenster, J. R., & Snyder, L. (2008). Coping with September 11th: Post-traumatic stress and post-traumatic growth in a national sample. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 78, 300-312.
  • Park, C. L., Edmondson, D., Fenster, J. R., & Blank, T. O. (2008). Meaning making and psychological adjustment following cancer: The mediating roles of growth, life meaning, and restored just world beliefs. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 76, 863-875.
  • Park, C. L., Edmondson, D., Fenster, J. R., & Blank, T. O. (2008). Positive and negative health behavior changes in cancer survivors: A stress and coping perspective. Journal of Health Psychology, 13, 1198-1206.

Other:

  • Director, Graduate Certificate Program, Health Psychology, University of Connecticut.
  • Principal Investigator (2010-2014). "Development of a Translational Tool to Study Yoga Therapy". R01, NCCAM.
  • Principal Investigator (2011-2013). “Targeting the Teachable Moment: A Health Behavior Change Intervention for Breast Cancer Survivors”. R21, NCI.
  • Principal Investigator (2009-2012). “Innovations in Assessing Late Adolescent/Young Adult Cancer Survivors’ Quality of Life”. Research Grant, Lance Armstrong Foundation.
  • Membership Chair, Division 38 (Health Psychology), American Psychological Association.