Written by respected experts in the field, this book provides an integrative framework that ties behaviours related to diet and physical activity to child development in a quest to point toward intervention approaches that hold better promise for success.
About the Author :
Dawn K. Wilson (Ph.D., Psychology, Vanderbilt, 1988) is a Research Associate Professor in the Prevention Research Center and Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior of the University of South Carolina Arnold School of Public Health. She also serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine at the Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University. Her major research interests are in health promotion in youth, health psychology and behavioral medicine, and prevention and epidemiology. She is active in the Society of Behavioral Medicine, APA Divisions 38 (Health Psychology) and 12 (Pediatric Psychology), and other associations. In 1997, she received a Recognition of Significant Contribution to Health Psychology from APA for her editorship of "Health-Promoting & Health-Compromising Behavior Among Minority Adolescents." She has received the SBM Distinguished Service Award (2000) and has attained Fellow Status for Scientific Achievement in both SBM (2000) and APA Division 38 (2001). She is widely published.
Tom Baranowski received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology at the University of Kansas in 1974, specializing in clinical judgment as a cognitive process. He did his undergraduate work at Princeton and is currently Professor of Pediatrics with the Children′s Nutrition Research Center of the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. He has also served as a tenured professor at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and Emory University Rollins School of Public Health. He has a long record of research and publication. (His 52-page vita is on file.)
Ronald Iannotti (Ph.D., Developmental Psychology, SUNY-Buffalo, 1975) has taught at SUNY-Buffalo, Marietta College, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Miami University, and the University of Trier. He has had numerous grants on studies involving substance use among African American children, developmental influences in managing Type 1 Diabetes, determinants of physical activity in young children, nutrition and activity in Black children, etc. He is on the editorial board and/or serves as an editorial consultant for a wide range of scholarly journals, such as Child Development, The Prevention Researcher, Addictive Behavior, American Journal of Public Health, the Annals of Behavioral Medicine, and over a dozen others. He is an APA Fellow and has received a MacArthur Foundation Research Team Award. He is widely published.
Alan Mark Delamater (Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of Georgia, 1981) is Professor of Pediatrics and Psychology and Director of Clinical Psychology at the University of Miami. He has also held teaching and research positions at the Wayne State University School of Medicine and the Washington University School of Medicine and Department of Psychology. He is widely published in journals, primarily on diabetes and behavioral aspects of controlling weight and diabetes, and has twice won the Lifescan Diabetes Research Award from the Society of Behavioral Medicine. He has Board Certification in Clinical Health Psychology with the American Board of Professional Psychology.
