Eric S Zhou

Biographic Data

ID161828
NAMEEric S Zhou
GIVEN NAMESEric S
FAMILY NAMEZhou
SIGNATUREZHOU E S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of British Columbia Hospital
ORCID0000-0003-1038-8961
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS66
AUTHOR COUNT5
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Effectiveness of the Forgiveness Interventions Among Left-Behind Junior High School Students in China

    Open AccessXin Meng, Mei’e Xin et al.ARTICLEResearch on Social Work Practice2025References: 5

    Purpose: Recognizing the positive influence of forgiveness on adolescent development, this study investigated the effectiveness of a forgiveness intervention in reducing peer victimization and enhancing forgiveness levels among left-behind and non-left-behind junior high school students in China. Methods: Based on the Enright process-based model, 72 students (36 left-behind) were randomly assigned to intervention or control groups. Over 4 weeks, …

  • A Sleep Health Education Intervention Improves Sleep Knowledge in Social Work Students

    Open AccessChristine Spadola, Danielle Groton et al.ARTICLESocial Sciences2024References: 8

    Introduction: Social workers, the largest group of mental health clinicians in the United States, play a pivotal role in mental health promotion. Despite the importance of sleep for mental health, there is no empirical research on sleep education interventions for social workers. Method: We designed an online sleep health education intervention to equip social work students to promote healthy sleep practices among their clients. An interdisciplin…

  • Sleep and sleep knowledge among social work students: Implications for mental health and self-care education

    Christine E Spadola, Christine Spadola et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Behavior in the…2024Cited by: 2References: 51

    Obtaining good quality sleep is crucial to mental health. Social work students might be particularly vulnerable to mental health challenges and insufficient sleep, which can have important implications for self-care education. Examining social work students' sleep characteristics (i.e. sleep duration and sleep quality) and health knowledge gaps can provide an important context for promoting healthy sleep among social work students. Nonetheless, t…

  • Sleep and substance use: Practice considerations for social workers

    Christine E Spadola, Christine Spadola et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social Work Practice…2023

    Poor sleep health is consistently associated with the initiation of substance use, development of substance use disorders (SUDs), dropout from treatment, and return to use. Quality sleep health holds promise as a modifiable factor that can reduce the occurrence and severity of SUDs. Unfortunately, social workers typically receive little to no training in the assessment and evidence-based treatment of sleep disorders. This article, authored by an …

  • If it goes up, must it come down? Chronic stress and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis in humans

    Gale E Miller, Gregory E Miller et al.ARTICLEPsychological Bulletin2007Cited by: 64

    The notion that chronic stress fosters disease by activating the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) axis is featured prominently in many theories. The research linking chronic stress and HPA function is contradictory, however, with some studies reporting increased activation, and others reporting the opposite. This meta-analysis showed that much of the variability is attributable to stressor and person features. Timing is an especially c…