{"id":302,"date":"2020-05-26T21:00:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T21:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/neuroscience\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=302"},"modified":"2026-02-11T14:24:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T19:24:32","slug":"resnate-ysseldyk","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/neuroscience\/people\/resnate-ysseldyk\/","title":{"rendered":"Renate Ysseldyk"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"primary-fields-of-specialization\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Primary Fields of Specialization:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Social and Health Psychology, Aging<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"research-interests\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Research Interests:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>In broad terms, my research takes an interdisciplinary, mixed-method, and community-based approach to contribute toward understanding and promoting individuals\u2019 mental health, and healthy societies more broadly, by focusing on three interconnected themes: 1) healthy aging, 2) (non)religious, ethnic, and gender-based social identities, and 3) coping with stress. My ongoing research program is thus grounded in a social identity theoretical framework for studying health among potentially vulnerable populations (e.g., older adults living with dementia, caregivers, individuals who have experienced stigma, discrimination, trauma, or illness) in order to transform understandings of psychosocial care and improve mental health outcomes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8291,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Renate","cu_people_last_name":"Ysseldyk","cu_people_initials":"RY","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[31],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-302","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-affiliated"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Assistant Professor, Health Sciences","cu_people_degree":"PhD (Carleton)","cu_building":"HS","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"renate.ysseldyk@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"613-520-2600","cu_people_phone_ext":"4428","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/identity\/","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9577,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/302\/revisions\/9577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}