
The Director's Weekly Read
The Director’s Weekly Read is a bi-weekly post sharing articles personally curated by the Center’s Director, Dr. Barret Michalec. The Director’s Weekly Read showcases novel concepts in the interprofessional practice and education field to spark curiosity and new directions.

Feeling stressed? Let's take it back to the classic Hans Selye to explore the origins of Stress Theory for this week's Director's Weekly Read.

Here's this week's Director's Weekly Read from Center Director, Dr. Barret Michalec, "First of all, this is from my new FAVORITE journal, The Wiley Online Library. Secondly, I do love Beer Science! Hoppy reading... see what I did there?"

NEW! Although there are active debates on the universality of emotional categories, no one can argue Paul Ekman's work on emotions & emotional state recognition is monumental and just so incredibly interesting.

At CAIPER, we're exploring how Emotional Contagion can be tapped to stimulate teamness and sustain connectivity and community among team members. Here, however, we see that it may have a self-preservation feature as well. SCIENCE!

Have your Saturday coffee with Director's Weekly Read! As leaders in interprofessional science, CAIPER is venturing into space & place theory to effectively cultivate community and a sense of belonging among team members.

CAIPER, Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation and Arizona State University believe it's invaluable to explore tenets of interprofessional education and practice & teamness from an interdisciplinary lens. In this week's work, Dr. Athena Aktipis et al. explores cooperation as it relates to fitness interdependence.

Probably one of the coolest theories out there- Socioemotional Selectivity deals with the perception of time AND emotions.

This week's Director's Weekly Read is a new publication from our Center Director, Dr. Barret Michalec. The Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences Studies article spotlights the connections between humility and social status.

Recently, Adam M. Grant & and The New York Times posted about Corey Keyes' work in Flourishing and Languishing. This week, we share a key article on the science of the Mental Health Continuum.

The late Scott Reeves raised the flag over a decade ago for using the sociological imagination in the interprofessional field. We want to reiterate & emphasize this call to arms for this week's Director's Weeky Read.