Lifestyle Medicine: What is it and How is it Relevant to Psychologists?

This webinar provides an overview of a rapid-growing area of practice, Lifestyle medicine, which focuses on leveraging key aspects of lifestyle to promote disease prevention, treatment, and even reversal. The key aspects of lifestyle include diet, physical activity, stress management, risky substance use mitigation, social connections, and sleep. The webinar further highlights the opportunities for psychologists and psychological science to contribute to this area of medicine, as well as the specific opportunities for health psychologists.

• Explain what lifestyle medicine is and some examples of evidence-based applications.
• Assess the fit between lifestyle medicine and psychology, and ways in which psychologists might contribute to lifestyle medicine.

Alyssa Vela, PhD