Saturday, December 2, 2023
1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

A Family Approach to Living Well
with Illness and Disability Management

presented by Joan Monin, PhD
Associate Professor, Social and Behavioral Sciences
Yale School of Public Health

Meeting Location:
Charlotte Hungerford Hospital Memorial Conference Room
540 Litchfield Street, Torrington, CT 06790

• At this meeting, Dr. Monin will talk about how care partners and care recipients influence each other’s health and well-being over time. She will also talk about interventions, programs, and activities that families or chosen families can use to live well with illness and disability.

Professor Monin’s research examines how emotional processes affect health in older adult relationships. Her research combines survey methods and laboratory experiments to understand the mechanisms (e.g. emotional contagion, cardiovascular reactivity) and moderators (gender, individual differences in attachment) involved in these processes. Currently, her research focuses on understanding how caregivers and care recipients support one another in the context of early stage dementia.

After completing her BA in Psychology at the University of Rochester, Dr. Monin received both an MS in Psychology and a PhD in Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, followed by a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Social and Urban Research. She has received numerous international, national, and regional professional honors and recognitions, including:

• • Xerox Award for Excellence in the Social Sciences and Humanities
  • Reach Award from the Xerox Foundation, University of Rochester
  • Golden Key national Honor Society
  • Phi Beta Kappa, University of Rochester
  • Travel Award, Carnegie Mellon University, New Methods for the Analysis of Family and Dyadic Processes Conference, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  • Graduate Student Small Grant Award, Carnegie Mellon University, “Anxiety Expression in Social Support Interactions”
  • Herbert A. Simon Graduate Teaching Award, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Early Career Award, Society for the Study of Human Development (given every 2 years to honor an early career scholar whose work has made a significant contribution to the understanding of significant and critical aspects of human development)
  • Awarded Gerontological Society of America Fellow Status
  • Recipient of Society for the Psychology of Women, Div. 35 of the American Psychological Association’s 2020 Florence L. Denmark Award
  • Awarded Society for Experimental Social Psychology Fellow Status
  • Awarded American Psychosomatic Society Fellow Status

Inquiries are invited!
Registration is required no later than
5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 29th!

To register or request information, email Helen Moser or submit the form below:

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