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<\/strong><\/em>\n\n\"Michael<\/a><\/p>\n

Michael R. Mantell, PhD<\/b><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

\"\"After earning his M.S. degree in Clinical Psychology at Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia, Dr. Mantell went on to earn his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania in 1976. In 1998, he was awarded the \u201cDistinguished Alumnus Award for Lifetime Achievement \u201cas a \u201cScholar, Counsellor, Author and Friend\u201d by the University of Bridgeport, having earned his BA degree there in 1970.<\/p>\n

For more than 45 years, Dr. Mantell has been privileged to help driven, highly professional and successful people disturb themselves less and create lasting positive change with my science and compassion-based rational emotive behavior coaching methods. He’s been especially steadfast in promoting today\u2019s fit-health pros who are committed to creating a new playbook for sustainable health, thriving at the blurred boundaries of medical care, healthy lifestyle practices and mind-body wellbeing.<\/p>\n

Dr. Mantell’s has served as Chief Psychologist for Children’s Hospital of San Diego, Chief Psychologist for the San Diego Police Department, Chief Behavior Science Consultant for the American Council on Exercise, co-founder\/Chief Science Officer of Plus Size Certified, Inc., and as an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UCSD Medical School. He has also been a visiting lecturer at USC\u2019s School of Public Health, Point Loma Nazarene University\u2019s Integrative Health Program, UCLA, and the University of San Diego.<\/p>\n

He is a member of the Science Advisory Council of the International Council on Active Aging, a longtime member of SAG\/AFTRA having brought psychology to the public since the 1980s in broadcast and print media, including Good Morning America, Oprah, Larry King<\/em>, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Men\u2019s Health, Women\u2019s Health, Oxygen<\/em>, and has been a keynote speaker for national and international health-fitness conferences, including for the American Council on Exercise Fitness Symposium, the Transformational Leadership Council, and the IDEA 2020 World Conference. In 2013, greatist.com named Dr. Mantell to their list of \u201cThe 100 Most Influential People in Health and Fitness.\u201d<\/p>\n

Recently, he led a three-day intensive program for the American Society of Hematology on \u201cPhysician Wellness and Burnout.\u201d\u00a0 He’s enjoyed writing more than 70 columns to date for Arianna Huffington\u2019s “Thrive Global” on “Emotional Education Through COVID-19,\u201d aimed at helping readers gain easy to use tools, genuine support and no-nonsense understanding to thrive through, grow through, not just go through, these emotionally unsettling times of COVID19.<\/p>\n

He is the author of four books, including my first in 1988, \u201cDon\u2019t Sweat the Small Stuff PS: It\u2019s All Small Stuff,\u201d \u201cTicking Bombs: Defusing Violence in the Workplace,\u201d and most recently, \u201cThe Link is What You Think.\u201d<\/p>\n

Visit his website, drmichaelmantell.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After earning his M.S. degree in Clinical Psychology at Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia, Dr. Mantell went on to earn his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania in 1976. In 1998, he was awarded the \u201cDistinguished Alumnus Award for Lifetime Achievement \u201cas a \u201cScholar, Counsellor, Author and Friend\u201d by the University of Bridgeport, having earned his BA degree there in 1970. For more than 45 years, Dr. Mantell has been privileged to help driven, highly professional and successful people disturb themselves less and create lasting positive change with my science and compassion-based rational emotive behavior coaching methods. He’s been especially steadfast in promoting today\u2019s fit-health pros who are committed to creating a new playbook for sustainable health, thriving at the blurred boundaries of medical care, healthy lifestyle practices and mind-body wellbeing. Dr. Mantell’s has served as Chief Psychologist for Children’s Hospital of San Diego, Chief Psychologist for the San Diego Police Department, Chief Behavior Science Consultant for the American Council on Exercise, co-founder\/Chief Science Officer of Plus Size Certified, Inc., and as an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UCSD Medical School. He has also been a visiting lecturer at USC\u2019s School of Public Health, Point Loma […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":28345,"parent":5804,"menu_order":1320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28336","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28336\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}