- Posted in All University
- Category: Campus News
Dr. James Wadley, Associate Professor and Director of the Master of Human Services Program, is featured in the May 2012 edition of Ebony Magazine. A marriage, family and sexuality therapist, Dr. Wadley discusses the impact of weight in relationships.
With evidence of continued problems with weight in this country, and the fact that more than half of American adults are overweight, Wadley makes six points that could help strengthen relationships, especially if weight is an issue. Among these are the following:
- “Allow your partner to determine his or her own healthy weight with a doctor’s help
- Eat healthy and exercise together, talk about relationship changes to enhance intimacy
- Listen to one another’s feelings about weight gain and loss
- Grocery shop together and read nutrition facts labels
- Be mindful that feelings such as anger, fear or anxiety can lead to over-eating
- Consider counseling, and be patient, getting healthy is a lifelong process.”
Wadley says, “regardless of which spouse faces the weight challenge, the dynamics at work are a dance between the couple.” The Master of Human Services Program is one of four graduate degree programs offered by Lincoln University. The Graduate Center is located at 3020 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA.
######
Lincoln University – founded in 1854 as the nation’s first Historically Black University – combines the best elements of a liberal arts and sciences-based undergraduate core curriculum and selected graduate programs to meet the needs of those living in a highly technological and global society. The University enrolls approximately 2,500 undergraduate and graduate students.
Internationally recognized for preparing learners and producing world-class leaders in their fields, Lincoln has created five academic Centers of Excellence-programs of distinction. They are: Business and Entrepreneurial Studies, Lincoln/Barnes Visual Arts, Mass Communications, Grand Research Educational Awareness, Training (GREAT) for Minority Health, Teacher Education and Urban Pedagogy.