Helen Winefield

Biography

Professor Helen Winefield, BA, PhD Professor, Psychology and Psychiatry, University of Adelaide Research Interests: As a health psychologist, I am particularly interested in helping relationships, whether informal or professional. Animals often provide emotional support to people and/or encourage health-promoting physical or social activity. Sometimes however, pet-owners are overdependent on their pet to the exclusion of human company. Another set of health hazards can arise for people who work with animals in stressful conditions. Current Projects: In collaboration with A/Prof Anna Chur-Hansen, I am at present supervising a postgraduate thesis studying people with extreme and exclusive attachments to pets. Another project is looking at work stress in veterinarians. Professor Helen Winefield, BA, PhD Professor, Psychology and Psychiatry, University of Adelaide Research Interests: As a health psychologist, I am particularly interested in helping relationships, whether informal or professional. Animals often provide emotional support to people and/or encourage health-promoting physical or social activity. Sometimes however, pet-owners are overdependent on their pet to the exclusion of human company. Another set of health hazards can arise for people who work with animals in stressful conditions. Current Projects: In collaboration with A/Prof Anna Chur-Hansen, I am at present supervising a postgraduate thesis studying people with extreme and exclusive attachments to pets. Another project is looking at work stress in veterinarians.

Research Interest

As a health psychologist, I am particularly interested in helping relationships, whether informal or professional. Animals often provide emotional support to people and/or encourage health-promoting physical or social activity. Sometimes however, pet-owners are overdependent on their pet to the exclusion of human company. Another set of health hazards can arise for people who work with animals in stressful conditions.