Corporate Stress Solutions: The Research Team

Corporate Stress Solutions: The Research Team

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The company founders, Drs. Lyle H. Miller and Alma Dell Smith, have dedicated their professional lives to the study, treatment and analysis of stress in modern society. They are the authors of two popular books on stress, The Stress Solution and Stress and Marriage, which have sold over 150 thousand copies combined. Their work is quoted extensively in print and in authoritative, professional web sites, such as the American Psychological Association. The measurement device, the Personal Stress Navigator, originally published under the name Stress Audit, is the only stress assessment instrument peer reviewed and listed in O.K. Buros’ 10th Mental Measurements Yearbook, published by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska.

Drs. Miller and Smith are also the founding members of the Biobehavioral Institute of Boston and the Biobehavioral Treatment Center. More than a thousand physicians, psychiatrists, clinical psychologists and human resource executives have referred patients and employees to the treatment center for the diagnosis and treatment of stress-related disorders.

Drs. Miller and Smith have collectively published over 120 scientific papers in the field of stress, and from their scientific training, they developed the Biobehavioral Model of Stress, the core of the Stress Navigator Workshop. Their work has been featured on the cover of Time magazine and in other popular press. They are regularly invited to lecture at schools, universities and professional societies, and their research appears in more than 50 textbooks related to stress.

Dr. Miller has taught in medical schools at University of Washington, Temple, LSU New Orleans, and Boston University, and held positions such as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Biobehavioral Sciences at the Boston University School of Medicine. He has coached numerous executives from the private sector on health related issues, and is the Director of the Biobehavioral Institute, a non-profit research organization focusing on stress and health.

Dr. Smith, in addition to knowledge on stress in general, has a particular expertise in women’s health and is the Director of Psychological Services of the Women’s Health Group at Boston University Medical Center. She is also a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology with the American Board of Professional Psychology. Her work includes the design and implementation of programs in stress management and industrial wellness. She currently writes, lectures, directs the Biobehavioral Treatment Center, and trains primary care physicians and psychologists in the identification and treatment of stress-related disorders.

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