Howard Tennen, Ph.D.
Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor
Dr. Tennen received his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts and completed an internship in clinical psychology at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute. He was on the psychology faculty at the State University of New York at Albany from 1975-1978, and he has been a member of the University of Connecticut School of Medicine faculty in Community Medicine and Psychiatry since 1978.
Dr. Tennen teaches learning theory, social learning theory, and coping with serious illness in the
School of Medicine's basic sciences curriculum. He also
offers seminars in positive illusions and health, and theory of psychotherapeutic technique,
and Dr. Tennen is the course director of
two core courses within the Masters of Clinical and Translational
Science program. He mentors graduate students and postdoctoral fellows
in the Health Center's Alcohol Research Center.
Dr. Tennen chairs the School of Medicine's Senior Appointments and Promotions Committee (SAPC). He is the current editor of the Journal of Personality.
Dr. Tennen works in the area of stress, coping and adaptation. He examines factors that promote psychological and physical health among individuals who face health-related adversity and other threatening circumstances. With Dr. Affleck he has studied people's psychological responses to medical problems—including chronic pain disorders, asthma, heart attack and impaired fertility—and how these responses affect subsequent health and well being. He also investigates stress-related behavior as it unfolds in everyday life, with a focus on individual differences in the temporal patterning of stressful experiences, coping efforts, and symptoms.
He has applied daily process
methods to psychological and pharmacological treatment trials,
and to the study of gene-environment interactions.
Frazier, P., Tennen, H., Gavian, M., Park, C., Tomich, P, &
Tashiro, T. (2009). Does self-reported post-traumatic growth
reflect genuine positive change? Psychological Science,
20, 912-919.
Conner, T.C., Jensen, K., Tennen, H., Furneaux, H., Kranzler,
H., & Covault, J. (2010). Functional polymorphisms in the
serotonin 1B receptor gene (HTR1B) predict self-reported
anger and hostility among young men. American Journal of
Medical Genetics: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, 153(B),
67-78.
Kranzler, H.R., Tennen, H., Armeli, S., Chan, G., Covault,
J., Arias, A., & Oncken, C. (2009). Targeted naltrexone for
problem drinkers. Journal of Clinical
Psychopharmacology, 29, 350-357.
Finan, P.H., Hessler, E.E., Amazeen, P.G., Butner, J.,
Zautra, A.J., & Tennen, H. (2010). Oscillations in daily
pain prediction accuracy. Nonlinear Dynamics,
Psychology, and Life Sciences, 14, 27-46.
Armeli, S., Conner, T.S., Cullum, J., & Tennen, H. (2010). A
longitudinal analysis of drinking motives moderating the
negative affect-drinking association among college students.
Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 24, 38-47.
Department of Community Medicine and Health Care
University of Connecticut Health Center
263 Farmington Avenue, MC 6325
Farmington, CT 06030-6325
Phone: (860) 679-5466
Fax: (860) 679-5464
Email: tennen@nso1.uchc.edu
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