{"id":416,"date":"2018-09-28T15:56:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T19:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/people\/victoria-scott\/"},"modified":"2018-10-01T17:38:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T21:38:12","slug":"victoria-scott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/people\/victoria-scott\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Victoria Scott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-187\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1185\/2017\/11\/scott2.jpg\" alt=\"Victoria scott\" width=\"115\" height=\"115\" \/>Assistant Professor<br \/>\nDepartment of Psychological Science<\/p>\n<p>I am an applied, interdisciplinary social scientist with background and formal training in community psychology, clinical psychology, and business administration. [read more=&#8217;Read more&#8217; less=&#8217;Read less&#8217;] My research focuses on systems-level (organizational and community) improvement, primarily in health and human service organizations. Fostering <em>collective wellness<\/em> \u2013 that is, the health and well-being of individuals and their communities \u2013 rests at the heart of my commitment and contributions as a professional. As a faculty member in the Health Psychology Doctoral program, I concentrate on how systems and settings can be improved to promote health as a key aspect of wellness. For example, how can sectors of a community work together to increase access to preventive healthcare? Or, how can a healthcare system change its organizational culture to facilitate healthier employee behaviors? To better understand and advance collective wellness, I engage in evaluation, interdisciplinary approaches, and cross-sector collaborations. With a commitment toward bridging the gap between research and practice, my colleagues and I are continuously working to bring the fruits of our research into the hands of practitioners.<br \/>\n[\/read]<\/p>\n<p>For more information:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/connections\/people\/victoria-scott\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Faculty Connections &gt; Dr. Victoria Scott<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Professor Department of Psychological Science I am an applied, interdisciplinary social scientist with background and formal training in community psychology, clinical psychology, and business administration. [read more=&#8217;Read more&#8217; less=&#8217;Read less&#8217;] My research focuses on systems-level (organizational and community) improvement, primarily in health and human service organizations. Fostering collective wellness \u2013 that is, the health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":747,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[47,78,54,29,79,19,17],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychological-science","tag-behavioral-health","tag-clinical","tag-community-engagement","tag-community-health","tag-cross-sector-collaboration","tag-health-systems-and-organizations","tag-social-determinants-of-health"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pajj23-6I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/747"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":615,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions\/615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}