{"id":61330,"date":"2013-08-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uris-james-prochaska-wins-prestigious-award-from-american-psychological-association\/"},"modified":"2013-08-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T00:00:00","slug":"uris-james-prochaska-wins-prestigious-award-from-american-psychological-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2013\/08\/uris-james-prochaska-wins-prestigious-award-from-american-psychological-association\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s James Prochaska wins prestigious award from American Psychological Association"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Aug. 20, 2013 \u2013 James O. Prochaska, director of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Cancer Prevention Research Center, has received a national award for his groundbreaking work in public health.<\/p>\n


\n Prochaska, of Wakefield, is the recipient of the 2013 Outstanding Contributions to Health Psychology award from Division 38 of the American Psychological Association.<\/p>\n


\nThe award is presented every year to honor a person who has a long and distinguished career of scientific contributions. A colleague accepted the award on Prochaska\u2019s behalf at the annual APA convention Aug. 3 in Hawaii.<\/p>\n


\nA professor of clinical and health psychology at 溏心vlog免费B站, Prochaska pioneered the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change, an internationally acclaimed program that encourages people to change their behavior in stages to achieve better health.<\/p>\n


\n\tHis program is widely used in cancer prevention, as well as smoking, depression, alcohol and substance abuse, sun exposure, exercise and diet. The strategy uses five stages \u2013 precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action and maintenance \u2013 to guide and ultimately change behaviors.<\/p>\n


\n\tOver the past 40 years, Prochaska has written or co-written more than 350 publications, including three books: Changing for Good, Systems of Psychotherapy, and The Transtheoretical Approach.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThis individual award honors all of the faculty, students and staff who have collaborated to make the CPRC internationally recognized as a multidisciplinary leader in prevention of cancer and other chronic conditions,\u201d says Prochaska.<\/p>\n


\n\tProchaska has won numerous awards including the Top Five Most Cited Authors in Psychology from the American Psychology Society and an Innovator\u2019s Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He is the first psychologist to win a Medal of Honor for Clinical Research from the American Cancer Society.<\/p>\n


\n \u201cJames Prochaska is one of the most outstanding professors in 溏心vlog免费B站 history,\u201d says Winifred E. Brownell, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. \u201cHe and his talented colleagues have established a phenomenally productive and successful series of research projects and applications that have changed the field of psychology and transformed global understanding of the behavioral aspects of health. Their development and application of the Transtheoretical Model has helped people change from risky to healthy behaviors, improving the quality of lives.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nThe Cancer Prevention Research Center is dedicated to helping people change their behavior to live longer and healthier lives. The center\u2019s mission is to enhance the quality of life through the prevention of cancer and other diseases.<\/p>\n


\n\tPictured above: James O. Prochaska, director of the Cancer Prevention Research Center at the 溏心vlog免费B站 and a professor of clinical and health psychology at 溏心vlog免费B站. <\/p>\n


\nPhoto courtesy of James O. Prochaska.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Aug. 20, 2013 \u2013 James O. Prochaska, director of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Cancer Prevention Research Center, has received a national award for his groundbreaking work in public health. Prochaska, of Wakefield, is the recipient of the 2013 Outstanding Contributions to Health Psychology award from Division 38 of the American […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}