Suzanne Bennett Johnson

This article reports on the outcome of a presidential initiative of 2012 APA President Suzanne Bennett Johnson to delineate competencies for primary care psychology in six broad domains: science, systems, professionalism, relationships, application, and education.

2012 APA President Suzanne Bennett Johnson, PhD, is also an APA fellow and distinguished research professor at Florida State University College of Medicine. During her presidency, Bennett Johnson focused on interdisciplinary science and practice, obesity and engaging the next generation of psychologists.

Presentation by Past-president Suzanne Bennett Johnson, PhD, to the Kentucky Psychological Association. Details about the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) and APA's involvement in the current revision of the Mental and Behavioral Disorders Chapter of the ICD-10-CM.

Presentation by Past-president Suzanne Bennett Johnson, PhD, to the Kentucky Psychological Association. A shift is needed, away from the biomedical model which fails to adequately address mental health, toward a biopsychosocial model of health care.

Presentation by Past president Suzanne Bennett Johnson, PhD, for the World Congress of Students in Psychology, Cancun Mexico. Increasing recognition of the role of behavior in chronic disease means a biopsychosocial model for medical care is critical.

Presentation by 2013 APA Past-president Suzanne Bennett Johnson, PhD, for the Mental Health Issues of Diabetes Conference in Philadelphia. Emotional impact on SAI scores for ICA+ status mothers and children. Suggestions for improving future studies, prevention and behavioral impact.

Presentation by Past President Suzanne Bennett Johnson at APA's 2013 Annual Convention in Honolulu on the role of psychology in addressing factors underlying the obesity epidemic among black women.

A grand rounds presentation given by 2013 APA Past President Suzanne Bennett Johnson, PhD. How addressing the paradigm shift in medicine from the biomedical to the biopsychosocial model underlies the move to patient-centered integrated health care in the U.S.

Presentation given by 2013 APA Past President Suzanne Bennett Johnson, PhD, to the Minnesota Psychological Association. Includes limitations of the biomedical healthcare model in addressing mental health, shifting to a biopsychosocial model and the implications for health care, professional education and psychology.

Presentation given by 2013 APA Past President Suzanne Bennett Johnson, PhD, as part of a symposium on Integrated Care Team Approaches for Treatment of Obesity at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, San Francisco.

Presentation given by 2013 APA Past President Suzanne Bennett Johnson, PhD on psychology's paradigm shift to a biopsychosocial model and its challenges for practice, research and graduate education. Presented to the Association of Psychologists in Academic Health Centers, Nashville Tennessee.

Presentation given by 2012 APA President Suzanne Bennett Johnson, PhD, to the World Health Organization. Includes epidemiology of childhood obesity, consequences, lessons learned from the US and thoughts on the way forward.

Dr. Suzanne Bennett Johnson reflects on her past year as APA president, her presidential initiatives and APA's first strategic plan.

2012 APA President Dr. Suzanne Bennett Johnson's presentation on the limitations of the biomedical model. Includes overview of rising health care costs and the increasing recognition of behavioral health's role in treatment.

Dr. Suzanne Bennett Johnson discusses increasing psychology's role in health as one of APA's strategic goals.

Dr. Suzanne Bennett Johnson discusses the growing obesity epidemic and the stigmatization of overweight people.

Presentation given by 2012 APA President Suzanne Bennett Johnson, PhD, to the A.I. DuPont Hospital for Children. Epidemiology of childhood obesity, consequences, factors underlying the epidemic and key recommendations for health care providers are discussed.

Presentation given to the Colorado Psychological Association by 2012 APA President Suzanne Bennett Johnson, PhD, discusses how integrated care, biomedical and biopsychosocial models may successfully transition psychology from a mental health to a health profession.

Dr. Suzanne Bennett Johnson discusses how medicine's paradigm shift offers opportunities for psychologists in health care, medical education and health research.

This presentation by 2012 APA president Suzanne Bennett Johnson, PhD, on The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young Study emphasizes the importance of international research in testing genetically at-risk children, to prevent Type 1 Diabetes.

This presentation by 2012 APA president Suzanne Bennett Johnson, PhD, covers the role of psychological research in estimating the impact of widespread Type 1 diabetes screening, advances in understanding pathogenesis and prediction, including genetic and autoimmune precursors.

2012 APA president Suzanne Bennet Johnson, PhD, explains on how psychology can change from a mental health to a health profession, discussing mind/body duality and the priority given to physical health.

Presentation by 2012 APA President Suzanne Bennett Johnson. Newborn genetic screening for T1D does impact families in the areas examined to date: risk perception, state anxiety, efforts to prevent T1D and study participation.

2012 APA President Suzanne Bennett Johnson, PhD, described her initiatives, engaging the next generation of psychologists, interdisciplinary science and practice, and obesity.

2012 APA President Suzanne Bennett Johnson, PhD, discusses a biopsychosocial model approach to improving health care, the prevention of infectious disease and chronic illness, and reducing the negative effects of urbanization and high health-risk behaviors.