Food for thought at WestConn
Psychology and Health Week event jumpstarts healthy living discussion
DANBURY, CONN. — Dr. Kathryn Henderson, accomplished research and clinical psychologist, will speak at Western Connecticut State University about maintaining a healthy lifestyle as part of the psychology department’s “PsychMatters: Invited Lectures” series.
The lecture, “Feeding Our Children: The Intersection of Research and Policy,” is a WCSU Psychology and Health Week event. It will be at 1 p.m. on Friday, April 18, in the Student Center Theater in the Student Center on the university’s Midtown campus, 181 White Street in Danbury. The lecture will be free and the public is invited.
Henderson is the director of School and Community Initiatives at the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University, a research institute geared towards improving nutrition-related public policies, encouraging healthy eating habits, and reducing weight stigma through science-based knowledge and a dedication to change.
At the Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders, Henderson is the clinical director and an associate research scientist. She provides individual, group and family therapy for those with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder. Henderson also supervises graduate and doctoral students at Yale University and the University of Hartford.
As a research psychologist at Yale University’s School of Medicine and School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Henderson has researched binge eating disorder, patient psychiatric diagnoses, and assessment issues of gastric bypass surgery candidates. She currently is proposing an exercise intervention program for post-gastric bypass surgery patients.
Henderson has been invited to speak before a variety of academic, professional and community groups. She is well known for her publications on obesity, weight bias and stigma, environmental contributors to obesity, and the prevention and treatment of childhood obesity.
After earning her master’s degree and a doctorate in clinical psychology from Queen’s University in Canada, Henderson completed her clinical internship at Harvard Medical School and her post-doctoral training at Yale’s department of psychology.
For more information, call Dr. Shane Murphy, associate director of the psychology department, at (203) 837-9398 or the WCSU Office of University Relations at (203) 837-8486.
