Department: School of Communication Studies, Affiliated Faculty in Department of Psychology
Areas of expertise:
- Suicide & Mental Health
- Death
- Existential Psychology (the science of being and becoming)
Harvell-Bowman teaches courses in Existential Psychology and Advocacy.
Harvell-Bowman’s research focuses on the importance of mental health and investigating the cognitive distortion present among patients experiencing suicidal ideation as a way to mitigate death anxiety and the corresponding therapeutic techniques that are informed by existential and attachment-based perspectives.
Harvell-Bowman earned a bachelor's degree at the Univeresity of Kansas, a master's degree at Wichita State University and a doctorate at the University of Oklahoma.
Media contact: Eric Gorton, gortonej@jmu.edu
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