UAB Psychologist Develops Integrated Behavioral Medicine Service

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UAB Psychologist Develops Integrated Behavioral Medicine Service
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A clinical psychologist at UAB has developed a service that provides brief, evidence-based psychiatric treatment in primary and specialty care settings. Her research focuses on developing behavioral interventions for preventing and managing chronic health conditions in mid-to-later life.

is a clinical psychologist and postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB) specializing in adult and geriatric behavioral medicine . As a fellow, she has developed UAB’s Integrated Behavioral Medicine Service (iBeMS), which provides brief, evidence-based psychiatric treatment in primary and specialty care settings throughout UAB’s health system.

Pierpaoli Parker received a Fulbright-Killam fellowship to the University of Toronto prior to earning her Ph.D. from the University of Alabama and completing her clinical residency at UAB. Her broad research and clinical interests include developing translational behavioral interventions for preventing and managing comorbid psychiatric and chronic health conditions in mid-to-later life.For patients who have long struggled with insomnia, remission after treatment can feel anxiety-provoking. Learn practical strategies for calming these fears and preventing relapse.For chronic nightmare sufferers, Imagery Rehearsal Therapy ranks as the gold-standard treatment. Its four steps train you to rescript nightmares and find relief.After a rough night (or several), how can you go about your day? Consider these evidence-based environmental, behavioral, and cognitive strategies.Worried Sleepless? Try These 3 ThingsWhy Perfectionism Is a Trap When we fall prey to perfectionism, we think we’re honorably aspiring to be our very best, but often we’re really just setting ourselves up for failure, as perfection is impossible and its pursuit inevitably backfires

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