Susan Folkman, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Medicine
School of Medicine

Grants and Projects

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• Training Researchers in Clinical Integrative Medicine (TRIM), NIH, 2007-2022
• Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, NIH, 2001-2021
• MBSR, Stress Arousal and Immune Response in Early HIV, NIH, 2004-2010
• Pediatric Clinical Research Center, NIH, 1981-2007
• Dying at Home of AIDS &Cancer: Preferences &Outcomes, NIH, 2002-2006
• Caregiving and Mental Health in Mothers of Hiv+ Children, NIH, 1998-2004
• Followup Study of a Cohort of Bereaved Partners of Pwas, NIH, 1992-2000
• Coping and Well-being in Caregivers of Persons with Aids, NIH, 1994-1999
• Effects of Bereavement in Partners of Persons with Aids, NIH, 1989-1996

Publications (74)

Top publication keywords:
MindfulnessBereavementTerminally IllHIV SeropositivityAffectSick RoleAdaptation, PsychologicalReligion and PsychologyCounselingStress, PsychologicalCaregiversAcquired Immunodeficiency SyndromeMothersComplementary TherapiesHomosexuality, Male

• A randomized, controlled trial of mindfulness-based stress reduction in HIV infection.
  Brain, behavior, and immunity 2018 Hecht FM, Moskowitz JT, Moran P, Epel ES, Bacchetti P, Acree M, Kemeny ME, Mendes WB, Duncan LG, Weng H, Levy JA, Deeks SG, Folkman S
• Randomized controlled trial of a positive affect intervention for people newly diagnosed with HIV.
  Journal of consulting and clinical psychology 2017 Moskowitz JT, Carrico AW, Duncan LG, Cohn MA, Cheung EO, Batchelder A, Martinez L, Segawa E, Acree M, Folkman S
• Assessment of stress and self-efficacy for the NIH Toolbox for Neurological and Behavioral Function.
  Anxiety, stress, and coping 2015 Kupst MJ, Butt Z, Stoney CM, Griffith JW, Salsman JM, Folkman S, Cella D
• Positive Affect in the Midst of Distress: Implications for Role Functioning.
  Journal of community & applied social psychology 2012 Moskowitz JT, Shmueli-Blumberg D, Acree M, Folkman S
• Applying principles from complex systems to studying the efficacy of CAM therapies.
  Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.) 2010 Ahn AC, Nahin RL, Calabrese C, Folkman S, Kimbrough E, Shoham J, Haramati A

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• Stress, coping, and hope.
  Psycho-oncology 2010 Folkman S
• Filming the family: a documentary film to educate clinicians about family caregivers of patients with brain tumors.
  Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education 2010 Rabow MW, Goodman S, Chang S, Berger M, Folkman S
• End of living: maintaining a lifeworld during terminal illness.
  Psychology & health 2009 Wrubel J, Acree M, Goodman S, Folkman S
• Can meditation slow rate of cellular aging? Cognitive stress, mindfulness, and telomeres.
  Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2009 Epel E, Daubenmier J, Moskowitz JT, Folkman S, Blackburn E
• Depression, distress and positive mood in late-stage cancer: a longitudinal study.
  Psycho-oncology 2009 Rabkin JG, McElhiney M, Moran P, Acree M, Folkman S
• Mediators of childhood sexual abuse and high-risk sex among men-who-have-sex-with-men.
  Child abuse & neglect 2008 Catania JA, Paul J, Osmond D, Folkman S, Pollack L, Canchola J, Chang J, Neilands T
• The case for positive emotions in the stress process.
  Anxiety, stress, and coping 2008 Folkman S
• Socioeconomic differences in the effects of prayer on physical symptoms and quality of life.
  Journal of health psychology 2007 Banthia R, Moskowitz JT, Acree M, Folkman S
• Caregiving time in sickle cell disease: psychological effects in maternal caregivers.
  Pediatric blood & cancer 2007 Moskowitz JT, Butensky E, Harmatz P, Vichinsky E, Heyman MB, Acree M, Wrubel J, Wilson L, Folkman S
• Debating the Worth of NCCAM Research.
  Science (New York, N.Y.) 2006 Folkman S, Berman B, Bondurant S, Eisenberg D, Haramati A, Kreitzer MJ, Kronenberg F
• A validity and reliability study of the coping self-efficacy scale.
  British journal of health psychology 2006 Chesney MA, Neilands TB, Chambers DB, Taylor JM, Folkman S
• The prediction of bereavement outcome: development of an integrative risk factor framework.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2006 Stroebe MS, Folkman S, Hansson RO, Schut H
• The economic burden of home care for children with HIV and other chronic illnesses.
  American journal of public health 2005 Wilson LS, Moskowitz JT, Acree M, Heyman MB, Harmatz P, Ferrando SJ, Folkman S
• Pediatric adherence: perspectives of mothers of children with HIV.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2005 Wrubel J, Moskowitz JT, Richards TA, Prakke H, Acree M, Folkman S
• National Institutes of Health State-of-the-Science Conference statement: management of menopause-related symptoms.
  Annals of internal medicine 2005 National Institutes of Health
• Resilience to loss in bereaved spouses, bereaved parents, and bereaved gay men.
  Journal of personality and social psychology 2005 Bonanno GA, Moskowitz JT, Papa A, Folkman S
• Economic and psychologic costs for maternal caregivers of gastrostomy-dependent children.
  The Journal of pediatrics 2004 Heyman MB, Harmatz P, Acree M, Wilson L, Moskowitz JT, Ferrando S, Folkman S
• Coping: pitfalls and promise.
  Annual review of psychology 2004 Folkman S, Moskowitz JT
• Coping effectiveness training for men living with HIV: results from a randomized clinical trial testing a group-based intervention.
  Psychosomatic medicine 2003 Chesney MA, Chambers DB, Taylor JM, Johnson LM, Folkman S
• Couples therapy at end of life.
  Psycho-oncology 2003 Mohr DC, Moran PJ, Kohn C, Hart S, Armstrong K, Dias R, Bergsland E, Folkman S
• Do positive psychological states shed light on recovery from bereavement? Findings from a 3-year longitudinal study.
  Death studies 2003 Moskowitz JT, Folkman S, Acree M
• An international scientific conference on complementary, alternative, and integrative medicine research.
  Complementary therapies in medicine 2002 Folkman S
• Appraisals of controllability and coping in caregivers and HIV+ men: testing the goodness-of-fit hypothesis.
  Journal of consulting and clinical psychology 2001 Park CL, Folkman S, Bostrom A
• Coping and physical health during caregiving: the roles of positive and negative affect.
  Journal of personality and social psychology 2000 Billings DW, Folkman S, Acree M, Moskowitz JT
• Positive affect and the other side of coping.
  The American psychologist 2000 Folkman S, Moskowitz JT
• Promoting psychological well-being in the face of serious illness: when theory, research and practice inform each other.
  Psycho-oncology 2000 Folkman S, Greer S
• Depressive symptomatology in three Latino groups.
  Western journal of nursing research 1999 Munet-Vilaró F, Folkman S, Gregorich S
• Spiritual aspects of loss among partners of men with AIDS: postbereavement follow-up.
  Death studies 1999 Richards TA, Acree M, Folkman S
• Thoughts about psychological factors, PNI, and cancer.
  Advances in mind-body medicine 1999 Folkman S
• HIV sexual risk behavior following bereavement in gay men.
  Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association 1998 Mayne TJ, Acree M, Chesney MA, Folkman S
• Informal caregivers and the intention to hasten AIDS-related death.
  Archives of internal medicine 1998 Cooke M, Gourlay L, Collette L, Boccellari A, Chesney MA, Folkman S
• What informal caregivers actually do: the caregiving skills of partners of men with AIDS.
  AIDS care 1997 Wrubel J, Folkman S
• Positive psychological states and coping with severe stress.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 1997 Folkman S
• Spiritual aspects of loss at the time of a partner's death from AIDS.
  Death studies 1997 Richards TA, Folkman S
• Suicidal ideation, bereavement, HIV serostatus and psychosocial variables in partners of men with AIDS.
  AIDS care 1997 Rosengard C, Folkman S
• Stability and change in psychosocial resources during caregiving and bereavement in partners of men with AIDS.
  Journal of personality 1997 Park CL, Folkman S
• Appraisal and goal processes as predictors of psychological well-being in bereaved caregivers.
  Journal of personality and social psychology 1997 Stein N, Folkman S, Trabasso T, Richards TA
• Introduction to the special section: use of bereavement narratives to predict well-being in gay men whose partners died of AIDS--four theoretical perspectives.
  Journal of personality and social psychology 1997 Folkman S
• Grief. Vancouver Conference Review.
  AIDS care 1997 Folkman S, Chesney M
• Stress, coping, HIV status, psychosocial resources, and depressive mood in African American gay, bisexual, and heterosexual men.
  American journal of community psychology 1996 Peterson JL, Folkman S, Bakeman R
• Coping and mood during aids-related caregiving and bereavement.
  Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine 1996 Tedlie Moskowitz J, Folkman S, Collette L, Vittinghoff E
• Postbereavement depressive mood and its prebereavement predictors in HIV+ and HIV- gay men.
  Journal of personality and social psychology 1996 Folkman S, Chesney M, Collette L, Boccellari A, Cooke M
• Coping effectiveness training for men living with HIV: preliminary findings.
  International journal of STD & AIDS 1996 Chesney M, Folkman S, Chambers D
• Designing behavioural and social science to impact practice and policy in HIV prevention and care. The Executive Committee of the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS).
  International journal of STD & AIDS 1996 Coates TJ, Chesney M, Folkman S, Hulley SB, Haynes-Sanstad K, Lurie P, Marin BV, Roos L, Bunnett V, Du Wors R
• Psychobiologic reactivity to stress and childhood respiratory illnesses: results of two prospective studies.
  Psychosomatic medicine 1995 Boyce WT, Chesney M, Alkon A, Tschann JM, Adams S, Chesterman B, Cohen F, Kaiser P, Folkman S, Wara D
• Caregiver burden in HIV-positive and HIV-negative partners of men with AIDS.
  Journal of consulting and clinical psychology 1994 Folkman S, Chesney MA, Cooke M, Boccellari A, Collette L
• Psychological impact of HIV disease and implications for intervention.
  The Psychiatric clinics of North America 1994 Chesney MA, Folkman S
• Stress and coping in caregiving partners of men with AIDS.
  The Psychiatric clinics of North America 1994 Folkman S, Chesney MA, Christopher-Richards A
• Socioeconomic status and health. The challenge of the gradient.
  The American psychologist 1994 Adler NE, Boyce T, Chesney MA, Cohen S, Folkman S, Kahn RL, Syme SL
• How house officers cope with their mistakes.
  The Western journal of medicine 1993 Wu AW, Folkman S, McPhee SJ, Lo B
• Socioeconomic inequalities in health. No easy solution.
  JAMA 1993 Adler NE, Boyce WT, Chesney MA, Folkman S, Syme SL
• Stress, coping, and high-risk sexual behavior.
  Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association 1992 Folkman S, Chesney MA, Pollack L, Phillips C
• War-related stress. Addressing the stress of war and other traumatic events.
  The American psychologist 1991 Hobfoll SE, Spielberger CD, Breznitz S, Figley C, Folkman S, Lepper-Green B, Meichenbaum D, Milgram NA, Sandler I, Sarason I
• Do house officers learn from their mistakes?
  JAMA 1991 Wu AW, Folkman S, McPhee SJ, Lo B
• Characterization of the use and misuse of medications by an elderly, ambulatory population.
  Medical care 1989 Bernstein LR, Folkman S, Lazarus RS
• Psychoactive drugs, alcohol, and stress and coping processes in older adults.
  The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse 1989 Huffine CL, Folkman S, Lazarus RS
• Centrality and individual differences in the meaning of daily hassles.
  Journal of personality 1988 Gruen RJ, Folkman S, Lazarus RS
• Coping as a mediator of emotion.
  Journal of personality and social psychology 1988 Folkman S, Lazarus RS
• The impact of daily stress on health and mood: psychological and social resources as mediators.
  Journal of personality and social psychology 1988 DeLongis A, Folkman S, Lazarus RS
• Stress processes and the misuse of drugs in older adults.
  Psychology and aging 1987 Folkman S, Bernstein L, Lazarus RS
• Correlates of social support receipt.
  Journal of personality and social psychology 1987 Dunkel-Schetter C, Folkman S, Lazarus RS
• Age differences in stress and coping processes.
  Psychology and aging 1987 Folkman S, Lazarus RS, Pimley S, Novacek J
• Dynamics of a stressful encounter: cognitive appraisal, coping, and encounter outcomes.
  Journal of personality and social psychology 1986 Folkman S, Lazarus RS, Dunkel-Schetter C, DeLongis A, Gruen RJ
• Stress-processes and depressive symptomatology.
  Journal of abnormal psychology 1986 Folkman S, Lazarus RS
• Appraisal, coping, health status, and psychological symptoms.
  Journal of personality and social psychology 1986 Folkman S, Lazarus RS, Gruen RJ, DeLongis A
• Stress and adaptational outcomes. The problem of confounded measures.
  The American psychologist 1985 Lazarus RS, DeLongis A, Folkman S, Gruen R
• If it changes it must be a process: study of emotion and coping during three stages of a college examination.
  Journal of personality and social psychology 1985 Folkman S, Lazarus RS
• Personal control and stress and coping processes: a theoretical analysis.
  Journal of personality and social psychology 1984 Folkman S
• An analysis of coping in a middle-aged community sample.
  Journal of health and social behavior 1980 Folkman S, Lazarus RS