Jeffrey L. Geller’s research while affiliated with Yale University and other places

... The first year of our study, during which we have examined the development of one local community mental health team in the period before it physically left the main hospital site, has indicated a number of issues and concerns which focus around two of the key planks of Portsmouth DH A's development strat egy for adult mental health services: the integration of residential and community facilities to provide a comprehensive service in and for particular localities, and multidisciplinary teams as a basis of service organisation, delivery and development. Both the organisation and the priorities of the service are in the process of changing; the detail of this and the issues emerging have been touched upon throughout this paper, as in our Interim Report (Powell & Lovelock, 1989). In the latter document we have suggested that further careful attention be given to: (a) a number of dimensions of the role of a com munity based acute residential facility, and (b) aspects of team organisation, in particular concerning workload management and pri ority setting in a devolved service. ...

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The development of community based adult mental health services -- a research contribution

... Cognitive theory and research provide considerable support for a threat interpretation bias among individuals high in generalized anxiety and worry (e.g., Hirsch, Hayes, & Mathews, 2009;MacLeod & Cohen, 1993;Mathews & MacLeod, 1985;McNally, 1996). The role of a threat bias in anxiety has also been demonstrated in studies in which modifying anxious individuals' interpretation style to be more benign has been associated with a reduction in their anxious reactivity (e.g., Hayes, Hirsch, Krebs & Mathews, 2010;Mathews, Ridgeway, Cook, & Yiend, 2007;Murphy, Hirsch, Mathews, Smith, & Clark, 2007). ...

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An Adapted Word-Sentence Association Paradigm for Generalized Anxiety and Worry: Assessing Interpretation Bias

... This can be the result of experiencing the shock of witnessing an immoral act (Bloom, 1995), or vicarious harm by virtue of an empathic attachment to someone cared about (Sexton, 1999). Those who witness unethical behavior can be harmed in one of three ways (Bloom, 1995): they can be affected because of their empathy for the victim or perpetrator (Pearlman, 1995); they can also be affected by viewing the act through the lens of their own fears (Grunberg, Moore, and Greenberg, 2001), feeling that they, too, could be similarly victimized or forced to engage in unethical acts; and finally, they can witness behavior that shatters their worldview, their conception of organizational systems, or the character of society (Janoff-Bulman, 1989). ...

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Ethical Impact Theory: How Unethical Behavior at Work Affects Individual Well-Being