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Crystal L. Park, PhD (she/her/hers)

Professor
University of Connecticut
Storrs Mansfield, Connecticut, United States

Crystal L. Park, Ph.D., is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. Her research focuses on multiple aspects of coping with stressful events, including the roles of religious beliefs and religious coping, the phenomenon of stress-related growth, and the making of meaning in the context of traumatic events and life-threatening illnesses, particularly cancer and congestive heart failure. Her recent work has focused on integrative approaches to health, especially yoga. She is currently co-principal investigator of NIH-funded studies of mechanisms of action through which yoga helps low back pain and alcohol misuse, and is also co-principal investigator of an NIH-funded research network, Mind-Body Measures and Mechanisms of Emotional Wellbeing. She is Co-Author of Spirituality, Meaning, and Trauma and Co-Editor of The Handbook of the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality (first and second editions) and is editor of the journal Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. At UConn, she maintains an active research lab of graduate and undergraduate students--The Spirituality, Meaning, and Health Lab--and teaches health psychology at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.

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