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Overview

Catherine Haslam is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia and specializes in social sciences, psychology, and health professions. Their research focuses on topics such as health disparities and outcomes, health, psychology, and well-being, community health and development, aging and gerontology research, social and intergroup psychology, migration, aging, and tourism studies, as well as retirement, disability, and employment.

The scientist's work spans several main fields of study: social sciences, psychology, and health professions, with particular attention to subfields including general health professions, health, clinical psychology, sociology and political science, and social psychology.

Catherine Haslam's recent publications include:

  • Life Change, Social Identity, and Health (2020) published in Annual Review of Psychology
  • Social identity makes group-based social connection possible: Implications for loneliness and mental health (2021) published in Current Opinion in Psychology
  • Evidence that loneliness can be reduced by a whole-of-community intervention to increase neighbourhood identification (2021) published in Social Science & Medicine
  • Identity Continuity Protects Academic Performance, Retention, and Life Satisfaction among International Students (2020) published in Applied Psychology
  • Groups 4 Health versus cognitive-behavioural therapy for depression and loneliness in young people: randomised phase 3 non-inferiority trial with 12-month follow-up (2021) published in The British Journal of Psychiatry

They frequently publish in venues such as Social Science & Medicine, Psychology of Sport and Exercise, Journal of Affective Disorders, Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, and BMC Public Health.

Their notable frequent coauthors include:

  • Tegan Cruwys
  • S. Alexander Haslam
  • Jolanda Jetten
  • Sarah V. Bentley
  • Niklas K. Steffens

In addition to journal articles, Catherine Haslam has contributed to book publications, including a title published by Oxford University Press entitled Groups 4 Health, expected in 2025.

Best Publications

  • Social Identity, Health and Well-Being: An Emerging Agenda for Applied Psychology

    S. Alexander Haslam;Jolanda Jetten;Tom Postmes;Catherine Haslam

  • The social cure : identity, health and well-being

    Jolanda Jetten;Catherine Haslam;S. Alexander Haslam

  • The New Psychology of Health : Unlocking the Social Cure

    Catherine Haslam;Jolanda Jetten;Tegan Cruwys;Genevieve A. Dingle

  • Maintaining group memberships: Social identity continuity predicts well-being after stroke

    Catherine Haslam;Abigail Holme;S. Alexander Haslam;Aarti Iyer

  • Depression and Social Identity An Integrative Review

    Tegan Cruwys;S. Alexander Haslam;Genevieve A. Dingle;Catherine Haslam

  • Social group memberships protect against future depression, alleviate depression symptoms and prevent depression relapse

    Tegan Cruwys;Genevieve A. Dingle;Catherine Haslam;S. Alexander Haslam

  • Overcoming alcohol and other drug addiction as a process of social identity transition: the social identity model of recovery (SIMOR)

    David Best;Melinda Beckwith;Catherine Haslam;S. Alexander Haslam

  • Advancing the social identity approach to health and well-being: Progressing the social cure research agenda

    Jolanda Jetten;S. Alexander Haslam;Tegan Cruwys;Katharine H. Greenaway

  • How Groups Affect Our Health and Well-Being: The Path from Theory to Policy

    Jolanda Jetten;Catherine Haslam;S. Alexander Haslam;Genevieve Dingle

  • Groups 4 Health: Evidence that a social-identity intervention that builds and strengthens social group membership improves mental health

    Catherine Haslam;Tegan Cruwys;S. Alexander Haslam;Genevieve Dingle

  • Mental Health Support Groups, Stigma, and Self-Esteem: Positive and Negative Implications of Group Identification

    Jason W. Crabtree;S. Alexander Haslam;Tom Postmes;Catherine Haslam

  • Having a lot of a good thing: multiple important group memberships as a source of self-esteem.

    Jolanda Jetten;Nyla R Branscombe;S Alexander Haslam;Catherine Haslam

  • Social cure, what social cure? The propensity to underestimate the importance of social factors for health.

    S. Alexander Haslam;Charlotte McMahon;Tegan Cruwys;Catherine Haslam

  • “The we's have it”: Evidence for the distinctive benefits of group engagement in enhancing cognitive health in aging

    Catherine Haslam;Tegan Cruwys;S. Alexander Haslam

  • The Social Treatment: The Benefits of Group Interventions in Residential Care Settings

    Catherine Haslam;S. Alexander Haslam;Jolanda Jetten;Adam Bevins

  • An investigation of errorless learning in memory-impaired patients: improving the technique and clarifying theory

    Rebecca Tailby;Catherine Haslam

  • Social identification-building interventions to improve health: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Niklas K Steffens;Crystal J LaRue;Catherine Haslam;Zoe C Walter

  • The social psychology of responses to trauma: social identity pathways associated with divergent traumatic responses

    Orla T. Muldoon;S. Alexander Haslam;Catherine Haslam;Tegan Cruwys

  • The Social Cure

    Jolanda Jetten;Catherine Haslam;S. Alexander Haslam;Nyla R. Branscombe

  • GROUPS 4 HEALTH reduces loneliness and social anxiety in adults with psychological distress: Findings from a randomized controlled trial.

    Catherine Haslam;Tegan Cruwys;Melissa X. L. Chang;Sarah V. Bentley

  • No country for old men? The role of a ‘Gentlemen's Club’ in promoting social engagement and psychological well-being in residential care

    Ilka H Gleibs;Catherine Haslam;Janelle M Jones;S Alexander Haslam

  • Declining autobiographical memory and the loss of identity: effects on well-being.

    Jolanda Jetten;Catherine Haslam;Cara Pugliese;James Tonks

  • The case for a social identity analysis of health and well-being

    Jolanda Jetten;Catherine Haslam;S. Alexander Haslam

Frequent Co-Authors

S. Alexander Haslam
S. Alexander Haslam University of Queensland
Jolanda Jetten
Jolanda Jetten University of Queensland
Tegan Cruwys
Tegan Cruwys Australian National University
Genevieve A. Dingle
Genevieve A. Dingle University of Queensland
Niklas K. Steffens
Niklas K. Steffens University of Queensland
Dan I. Lubman
Dan I. Lubman Monash University
Nyla R. Branscombe
Nyla R. Branscombe University of Kansas
Cindy Gallois
Cindy Gallois University of Queensland
Timothy L. Hodgson
Timothy L. Hodgson University of Lincoln
J. Richard Hanley
J. Richard Hanley University of Essex

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