Health Psychology Center  

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  Treatment and Services

  Come in and receive quality service and treatment for a variety of health-related problems, from chronic pain to stress management, while fostering the education and guidance of learning psychology health care professionals.

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  Behavioral Pediatrics Clinic

  Here, you can find services for children 2 to 10 years of age exhibiting challenging behavior, with or without disabilities.

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  Women’s Weight Management Research program

  You can participate in the University’s research in weight management by being part of the program offered once a year in the spring.

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What is health psychology?

Continued advances in research have led to a new way of thinking about health and illness which has turned into a unique field of medicine and health care called health psychology.

The concept of health psychology recognizes these influences as factors affecting health and illness:

• biological composition (genes)
• behavior (lifestyle choices, stress, health beliefs)
• social conditions (culture, relationships)

Healthy psychology addresses four main areas:

1. promotion and maintenance of health
2. prevention and treatment of illness
3. identification of causes of illness
4. improvement of health care system and policies

Most health psychologists focus on prevention research and teaching, but others work with other health services like doctors and therapists to improve the overall health and well being of individuals. 

The Health Psychology Center

The Center is a multi-purpose service facility operated by the Psychology Department.  Master’s students in the clinical program gain their training experience at the Center by providing services to the community and university agencies.   The Center also provides research opportunities for psychology students and collaborates with other health professionals and programs at Northern Arizona University.

Staff

Suzanne Daiss, PhD
Director and Supervising Psychologist
E-mail: Suzanne.Daiss@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-6518 

Andrew Gardner, PhD
Supervising Psychologist
E-mail: Andrew.Gardner@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-3865 

Larry Stevens, PhD
Supervising Psychologist
E-mail: Larry.Stevens@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-6530 

Sumner Sydeman, PhD
Supervising Psychologist
E-mail: Sumner.Sydeman@nau.edu
Phone: 928-523-9472 

Julie Lambert
Administrative Specialist, Sr.
E-mail: Julie.Lambert@nau.edu 
Phone: 928-523-2161