{"id":177607,"date":"2021-09-23T14:49:50","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T18:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=177607"},"modified":"2022-02-28T13:38:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T18:38:38","slug":"amy-gorin-receives-connecticut-psychological-association-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2021\/09\/amy-gorin-receives-connecticut-psychological-association-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Gorin Receives Connecticut Psychological Association Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Amy Gorin, professor of\u00a0psychological\u00a0sciences,\u00a0is the 2021 recipient of the Connecticut Psychological Association\u00a0(CPA)\u00a0Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Science of Psychology.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The award recognizes Gorin\u2019s accomplishments to advance the science of psychology and her leadership\u00a0as\u00a0director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/chip.uconn.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy (InCHIP<\/a>).<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">InCHIP\u00a0supports the development of health-related science across UConn campuses and strives to foster strong interdisciplinary research with the goal of improving public health. Research within\u00a0InCHIP\u2019s\u00a0portfolio addresses health issues such as opioid addiction, prevention and treatment of HIV\/AIDS, cancer prevention and survivorship,\u00a0gun violence prevention,\u00a0food insecurity, and obesity.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Gorin\u2019s research, funded by the National Institutes of Health,\u00a0seeks to develop innovative treatment strategies to improve long-term weight loss and maintenance with an emphasis on interpersonal and environmental processes that impact weight management. Her recent work has examined motivational and behavioral strategies to facilitate weight-related behavior change in low-income, ethnically diverse families; whether delay discounting impacts decisions about physical activity; and a couples-based approach to weight loss maintenance.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u201cI am honored to receive this award from CPA,\u201d Gorin says. \u201cI am fortunate to collaborate with many talented colleagues at UConn and our collective work is moving social and behavioral health science forward, at a time when this work is urgently needed.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The award recognizes Gorin\u2019s accomplishments and contributions to the psychological sciences. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":177611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2226,2373],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2214],"class_list":["post-177607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clas","category-psychological-sciences"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 19:23:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177607"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182406,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177607\/revisions\/182406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/177611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177607"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=177607"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=177607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}