Evolved Caregiving
Holistic Approaches for Innovative Care
Our comprehensive approach to population health means ensuring that caregivers and
first responders have the social and technical support to optimize their efforts among
all communities.
Integrating caregivers into the medical design process along with innovative engineering improves outcomes with new treatment models and technologies, while optimizing effectiveness of medical personnel themselves.
While we leverage advanced methods to assess and improve health technologies, we at
the same time seek to deeply understand and better the communications that guide and
enhance efficacy of health interactions. Below is a rotating selection of our standout
investigators in these areas.
○ Recent News and Highlights
○ Related Strength: Health Disparities
○ Related Strength: Mental and Behavioral Health
Selected Publications
Callaghan, G., Follette, W. (2020). Interpersonal Behavior Therapy (IBT), Functional Assessment, and the Value of Principle-Driven Behavioral Case Conceptualizations. The Psychological Record, 70.
Diwan S., et al. (2023). Evaluation of a culturally adapted reminiscence therapy intervention: Improving mood, family and community connectedness in Spanish- and Vietnamese-speaking older adults. Transcultural Psychiatry. 60(6).
Haverfield, M., Nayeem, S., Sterk, M., et al. (2025). Using Presence Circles to identify strategies to enhance nurse presence at discharge: A focus group study with nursing students. International Journal of Nursing Studies Advances.
Zulman, D., Haverfield M., Shaw, J., et al. (2020). Practices to Foster Physician Presence and Connection With Patients in the Clinical Encounter. JAMA. 323(1).
Award Highlights
Maffini, Pham, Mahendra, Capriotti, “Healthy Development Community Clinic: Wellness for Children, Youth, & Families” — NIH, 2022
Haverfield, Interprofessional Agreement — VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Quality Improvement Resource Center (QuIRC), 2024
Affiliates
CSU Social Science Research and Instructional Center
CSU Shiley Haynes Institute for Palliative Care
Healthy Development Community Clinic
Featured Faculty
Glenn Callaghan
Professor of Psychology
Interpersonal Behavior Therapy, Contextual Behavioral Science, Functional Analysis
and Assessment, Functional Analytic Psychotherapy, Idiographic Assessment
ORCID: 0000-0001-7354-2810
Matthew Capriotti
Associate Professor of Psychology
Behavioral, Non-Drug Treatments for Chronic Tic Disorders, Tourette Syndrome, LGBTQ+
Mental and Physical Health
ORCID: 0000-0003-0825-2926
Sadhna Diwan
Professor of Social Work
Aging, Mental Health, Health Promotion, Multicultural Populations
ORCID: 0000-0002-9811-3120
Marie Haverfield
Associate Professor of Communication Studies
Interpersonal Communication, Health Communication, Family Communication, Resilience,
Substance Use, Patient-Provider Relationship, Implementation Science, Veterans
ORCID: 0000-0003-2949-0229
Potential collaborators and members of the media may contact us at officeofresearch@sjsu.edu.
