Patrick HeathFaculty

I am a counseling psychologist with an interest in help-seeking behaviors, positive psychology, and psychological measurement. My recent research has focused on how social and cultural factors (e.g., stigma, gender role expectations) serve as barriers to seeking out mental health care and how positive psychological factors (e.g., self-compassion, self-affirmation) could promote seeking help. Recently, I have been working on the development of brief interventions that could mitigate the impact of help-seeking barriers. In addition to this work, I examine the reliability and validity of psychological measures across cultures to ensure that these measures can be used in cross-cultural research. I typically utilize advanced statistical methodology to examine these topics, like structural equation modeling and measurement invariance testing.

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