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Tsunetsugu Munakata, Dr H Sc
<Present Positions>
Professor and Chair (1998
乣) 丆Division of Health Counseling and Socio-Behavioral Environment

<Major Area of Specialty>
Health Science, Health Psychology, Mental Health

<Address (office) >
 University of Tsukuba

Advanced Research Building D511,Tsukuba City,
丂JAPAN 305-8577
Phone 81-29-853-3971/81-47-332-0726
Fax 81-29-853-3971/81-47-332-3971

<Birthplace>
Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan

<Nationality>
Japanese

<Education>
June 1982 University of Tokyo
School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine
Tokyo, Japan
Doctor of Health Sciences


March 1973 University of Tokyo
Graduate School of Sociology
Tokyo, Japan
M.S. Sociology

March 1970 Tokyo Gakugei University
Tokyo, Japan
B.S. Education

<Awards>
Excellent Article Award, Japanese Med. Soc. Alcohol and Drug Studies, JAPAN, 2001.
Excellent Award for Community Contribution, JGN2, JAPAN, 2007.
MARQUIS Who
乫s Who in the World, USA, 2010, 2011.
2000 OUTSTANDING INTELLECTUALS OF THE 21st CENTURY AWARD, England, 2010.
Top 100 Health Professionals Award, England, 2010.
Great Minds of the 21st Century Award, USA, 2011.

<Previous Positions held>
Chair
乮2008乣2011乯, Department of Human Care Sciences , Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba
Executive Member (2002
乣2006), International Sociological Association
President(1998
乣2002), RC Mental Health and Illness, International Sociological Association
1994-1996 Member of Council of Overseas Cooperation on AIDS, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Japan
1989-1991 Consultant, Global Program on AIDS, World Health Organization, Geneva
1992-1993 Consultant, Division of Substance Abuse, World Health Organization, Geneva
1989 Visiting Fellow, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, U.S.A.
1986-89 Director, Section of Society and Culture Research, National Institute of Mental Health, National Center for Neurology and Psychiatry, Chiba, Japan
1986
丂Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India
1985-1998 Department of Health Sociology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan
1985 Professional Associate, Institute of Culture & Communication,
丂East West Center, Honolulu, U.S.A.
1981-82 Visiting Research Sociologist, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, U.S.A.

<Activities in Professional Organization>
1993-present President, The Academy for Health Counseling, Japan
1993-present President, Japanese Association of Mental Health Sociology, Japan
1998-2007 President, Japan Academy for Health Behavioral Science, Japan
1994-2002 President, Research Committee on Sociology of Mental Health and Illness, International Sociological Association,
1989-1992 International Advisory Board, AIDS & Society, U.S.A.
1989-2002 Consulting Editor, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, U.S.A.

<Main Publications in English & in French>
仠Wen-Yan Hu, Tsunetsugu Munakata, Sayuri Hashimoto, Wen-Jie Yang and Ying Feng:
 SAT-based Self-image Improvement Intervention to Ameliorate Anxiety in Chinese College Students.  International Journal of Structured Association Technique, 4:1-17, 2011.

仠F. N. Onuoha, T Munakata: AIDS and Human Security in Orphan Adolescents, and Sub-Saharan Africa.  International Journal of Structured Association Technique, 4:18-42, 2011.

仠Tsunetsugu MUNAKATA, Noriko HIGUCHI, Kazue NAKASHIMA, Kiriko MURAKAMI, Yoko WATANABE, Yutaka YAMAGUCHI, Hiroko IKENO, Yuka IWANAGA, Wen-yan HU, Yoko ICHINOSE, and Atsushi NOMOTO: Examining the Effects of the group intervention using SAT to ameliorate mental distress among Cancer Survivors.  International Journal of Structured Association Technique, 4:43-69, 2011.

仠HU Wen-Yan, Tsunetsugu Munakata, Yang Wen-Jie, Wang Jia-Hui, Feng Ying: The role of perceived emotional support on maintaining psychological well-being status among Chinese college freshmen. China Journal of Health Psychology, 17:66-68, 2011.

仠Donoyama N, Munakata T, Shibasaki M: Effects of Anma Therapy (Traditional Japanese Massage) on Body and Mind, Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies, 14: 55-64, 2010.
仠Onuoha FN, Munakata T: Inverse association of natural mentoring relationship with distress mental health in children orphaned by AIDS, BMC Psychiatry 2010, 10: 6 (Jan. 16, 2010).
仠Onuoha FN, Munakata T: Gender psychosocial health of children orphaned by AIDS, Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies, 5:3, 256-257, Sep. 2010.
仠Onuoha FN, Munakata T: Natural Mentoring as Palliative Care for Distressed AIDS-Orphaned Children, Selected Abstracts Journal of Palliative care, 26:3, Autumn. 2010.
仠Higuchi
  N, Munakata T:  Long-term prognosis of psychogenic visual disturbances(PVD) in children following SAT therapy, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF STRUCTURED ASSOCIATION TECHNIQUE3: 1-35,2009.
仠Donoyama N, Munakata T: Trait anxiety among Japanese massage practitioners with visual impairment: what is required in Japanese rehabilitation education? , THE BRITISH JOURNAL OF VISUAL IMPAIRMENT, 27(1):235-47, 2009.
仠Munakata T, Reconstructing Life and Society with SAT Therapy:
  Foundations of the New Generation CBT, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF STRUCTURED ASSOCIATION TECHNIQUE3:  35-60, 2009.
仠Higuchi  N, Nakashima K, Murakami K, Obitsu R, Munakata T:  Comparative examination of the effects of the SAT-DVD Learning Program Therapy and the Qigong (the traditional Chinese breathing exercise) Therapy to alleviate stress in cancer survivors, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF STRUCTURED ASSOCIATION TECHNIQUE3:  61-90, 2009.
仠Munakata T, Onuoha F N, Serumaga-Zake P A E, Nyonyintono R M, Bogere S M: MENTORING CARE SYSTEM FOR AIDS ORPHANS IN AIDS STIGMATIZING SUB-SAHARA AFRICAN SOCIETIES: THE CASE OF SOUTH AFRICA AND UGANDA. 1-154, 2008.
仠Onuoha F N, Munakata T, Serumaga-Zake P A E, Nyonyintono R M, Bogere S M: Negative Mental Health Factors in Children Orphaned by AIDS Natural Mentoring as a Palliative Care. AIDS and Behavior, DOI 10. 1007/s10461-008-9459-0, 2008.
仠Maeda T, Kurihara H, Morishima I, Munakata T: The Effect of Psychological Intervention on Personality Change, Coping, and Psychological Distress of Japanese Primary Breast Cancer Patients, CANCER NURSING 31(4): E27-E35, 2008.
仠Kubota T, Ohmori H, Munakata T: Relationship Between Physical Activity Level and Self-Efficacy for Exercise on University Students. Japanese Journal of Mental Health Sociology丆13丗21-27丆2008丏
仠Kubota T, Munakata T: Relationship between Life Skills and Stress Response in University Students. Japanese Journal of Mental Health Sociology丆14丗41-46丆2008丏
仠Kubota T, Sugiyama K, Iwaihara Y, Munakata T: Relationship between Self-Esteem and Self-Efficacy for Exercise in University Students. Japanese Journal of Mental Health丂Sociology丆14丗47-52,2008.
仠Munakata T: Toward a Theory of Integrative Imagery Health. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference of Health Behavioral Science, The Executive Committee of the 5thInternational Conference of Health Behavioral Science 2006, 34-54, 2008.
仠Tanaka K, Munakata T: Examining Effects of Human Relation Skill Using Genetic Temperament Concept on Stress Management: 3-month-followup Intervention. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF STRUCTURED ASSOCIATION TECHNIQUE 2:36-62, 2008.
仠Kobayashi K, Munakata T: Shift in Frequency of Voice Accompanied with Emotional Change in a Change in a Cancer Patient. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF STRUCTURED ASSOCIATION TECHNIQUE 2:63-75, 2008.
仠Maeda T, Munakata T: The effect of appropriate eating habits, depressive state, and social support on postoperative symptom experience among Japanese postgastrectomy patients.
 Gastroenterology Nursing, 31(6):423-9, 2008.
仠Tsunetsugu Munakata: Building SAT Therapy to Activate Anti-Cancer Genes and Immunologic Function for Cancer Treatment. International Journal of Structured Association Technique 1: 3-35, 2007.
仠Tatsumasa Kubota, Tsunetsugu Munakata: Relationship between Stages of Change for Exercise Behavior and Self-Efficacy for Exercise on University Students. ADOLESCENTOLOGY, 25(3): 329-336, 2007.
仠Kei-ichiro Kobayashi, Sayuri Hashimoto, Ryoichi Obitsu, Kazuo Murakami, Tsunetsugu Munakata: Treatment of Patients With Cancer for Stressful Emotion Transmitted from Ancestry by Using Genetic and Immunologic Data as Barometers. International Journal of Structured Association Technique, 1: 36-58, 2007.
仠Noriko Higuchi, Sayuri Hashimoto, Tsunetsugu Munakata: SAT Self-image Script Changing Therapy for Psychogenic Visual Disturbance. International Journal of Structured Association Technique, 1: 59-78, 2007.
仠Eva, N.A., Munakata, T. & Onuoha, F.N. Demographic Correlates of Constant Condom Use among Sex Workers in Tangail, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Adolescence, (42) 168:795-805, 2007.
仠Tsunetsugu Munakata: Building SAT Therapy to Activate Anti-Cancer Genes and Immunologic Function for Cancer Treatment. International Journal of Structured Association Technique-An Electronic Journal of Social Skill, Counseling and Imagery Therapy, 1:3-35, 2007.
仠Kei-ichiro Kobayashi, Sayuri Hashimoto, Ryoichi Obitsu, Kazuo Murakami, Tsunetsugu Munakata: Treatment of Patients With Cancer for Stressful Emotion Transmitted from Ancestry by Using Genetic and Immunologic Data as Barometers. International Journal of Structured Association Technique, -An Electronic Journal of Social Skill, Counseling and Imagery Therapy, 1:36-58, 2007.
仠Noriko Higuchi, Sayuri Hashimoto, Tsunetsugu Munakata: SAT Self-image Script Changing Therapy for Psychogenic Visual Disturbance. International Journal of Structured Association Technique, -An Electronic Journal of Social Skill, Counseling and Imagery Therapy, 1:59-78, 2007.
仠Takako Maeda, Francis N. Onuoha, Tsunetsugu Munakata: The Effect of Postoperative Symptom Experience, and Personality and Psychosocial Factors on Depression among Postgastrectomy Patients in Japan, Gastroenterology Nursing, 29 (6): 437-444, 2006.
仠Sayuri Hashimoto, Tsunetsugu Munakata, and Youichi Okutomi: A Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Study on the Exercise Behavior and Life Stress of Participants in a Community Health Promotion Program for Elderly and Middle-aged People, International Journal of Sport and Health Science, 4:555-569,2006.
仠Chenying Liu, Tsunetsugu Munakata, Francis N. Onuoha: Mental Health Condition Of The Only-Child: A Study of Urban and Rural High School Students in China, Adolescence40 (160) 831-845, 2005
仠 Francis N. Onuoha and Tsunetsugu Munakata: Implications of Amae for HIV Risk in Japanese Young Adults, Adolescence 40 (158) 397-402, 2005.
仠Jessica P. Campano, Tsunetsugu Munakata: Anger and Aggression among Filipino Students. Adoles們ence39 (156) 757-764, 2004.
仠Linda G. Bell, Hisako Dendo, Yojiro Nakata, David C. Bell, Tsunetsugu Munakata, Shin-Ichi Nakamura: The Experience of Family in Japan and the United States:Working with the Constraints Inherent in Cross-Cultural Research. Journal of Comparative Family Studies. 3:351-373, 2004.
仠Sayuri Hashimoto, Tsunetsugu Munakata: Educational Effectiveness of Structured Association Technique Health Counseling Seminal Journol of Health Counseling. 10:25-34, 2004.
仠Tsunetsugu Munakata: SAT Imagery Therapy for Families with Shu-in Kids. Japanese Society of Psychosomatic Medicine 42:37-46, 2003.
仠Tsunetsugu Munakata: The Traditional 'Image-Based' Approach to Healing in Japan: Initial Findings Stella R. Quah and L, Jan Slikkerver. (ed.), Traditional Healing Systems: Negotiating Science and Technology Challenges, pp. 129-142, the Netherlands: Leiden University, 2003丏
仠Anesaki M. and Tsunetsugu Munakata: Health, illness, and health policy in Japan. The Blackwll Companion To Medical Sociology , Cockerham W. C. (ed.), Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, pp. 441-455. 2001.
仠Tsunetsugu Munakata: Social Health and Problems-HIV/AIDS, International Journal of Japanese Sociology (6):147-162, 1997.
仠Tsunetsugu Munakata: AIDS: A Global Crisis & World Solidarity, Proceedings of The Third International Conference of Health Behavioral Science, Tokyo, 1996.
仠Tsunetsugu Munakata: HIV Risk-relevant behaviors of Japanese adolescents, Proceedings of XI International Conference on AIDS, Vancouver, 1996.
仠Tsunetsugu Munakata and Tajima K: Japanese risk behaviors and their HIV/AIDS preventive behaviors, AIDS Education and Prevention 8(2)丗 115-135, 1996.
仠Mary-Jo D V Good, Tsunetsugu Munakata, Y. Kobayashi, C. Mattingly and B.J. Good: Oncology and Narrative Time, Soc, Sci. Med. 38(6): 855-862, 1994.
仠Tsunetsugu Munakata: AIDS in Japan丄Akashi Shoten, Tokyo, pp.1-170, 1994.
仠Tsunetsugu Munakata丗Strengthening Preventive & Supportive Community Action on HIV/AIDS: Examining Effective Community Intervention, 1993 International Congress of Health Psychology: Proceedings, Tokyo, pp. 123-128, 1993丏
仠Good M., Hunt L., Tsunetsugu Munakata. , Kobayashi Y.: A Comparative Analysis of the Culture of Biomedicine: Disclosure and Consequences for Treatment in The Practice of Oncology.
仠Conrad P. and Gallagher E. (eds.): Medicine across Societies, Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1993.
仠Tsunetsugu Munakata丗Regional Distribution Patterns for Japanese Psychiatric Patients: A Sociocultural Perspective, Yasio Kawakita, Shizu Sakai, Yasuo Otsuka(eds.): History of Epidemiology, Ishiyaku Euro America, Inc. Publishers, pp.227-244, 1993.
仠Good M., Tsunetsugu Munakata., Kobayashi Y.: Temps narratif et incertitude en medecine clinique: Anthropologie et Societes. Folies/espaces de sens, 12 (1- 2):79-98, 1993丏
仠Tsunetsugu Munakata丗Health Care Systems for Self-Initiated Health亅A Future System Plan: M.K. Chytil, G.Duru, W.van Eimeren, CH.D.Flagle(eds.): Health Systems亅the Challenge of Change, Omnipress Publisher Prague, pp.652-655, 1992
仠Tsunetsugu Munakata丗"Effective Health Policy for AIDS Prevention in Japan:
仠Suggestions from International KABP Comparison, Shunichi Araki(ed.): Behavioral Medicine, Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., pp.223-228, 1992丏
仠Tsunetsugu Munakata: Report of the Second Meeting, Steering Committee on Behavioral Research. Global Programme on AIDS. World Health Organization, 1990丏
仠Tsunetsugu Munakata: "Stress-Coping Style and Traditional Care Utilization in Japan," S. Quah(ed.), The Triumph of Practicality: Tradition and Modernity in Health Care Utilization in Selected Asian Countries, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1989.
仠Tsunetsugu Munakata: "The Sociocultural Significance of Diagnostic Label "Neurasthenia" in Japan's Mental Health Care System," Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 13(2):203-213丆1989丏
仠Tsunetsugu Munakata: "Life Style and Health - Sociocultural Origins of Health and Illness in Japan," pp.18-33: H.H.Flitter, H.Hasegawa, T.Munakata (eds.), Tradition and Modernity in Health Care, the First U.S. - Japan Health Behavioral Science Conference, 1988.
仠Tsunetsugu Munakata: "Urbanization and Disease Phenomenon in Asia: A Transcultural Study," pp.188-198: Isomura et al.(eds.), Urbanization and Health Systems -Proceedings of the Second Asian Conference on Health and Medical Sociology, Japanese Society of Health & Medical Sociology, 1987.
仠Tsunetsugu Munakata: "Japan's Mental Health Care Delivery System in the Eighties," Journal of Mental Health丄No.33:155-143, 1987丏
仠Tsunetsugu Munakata: "Socio-Cultural Factors of Japanese Attitudes toward Mental illness and Mental Health Delivery System," pp.69-96: D.Y.H.Wu and K.Sonoda (eds.), Modernization of East-Asian Medicine, East-West Center & Korean UNESCO, 1986.
仠Tsunetsugu Munakata: "Japanese Attitudes toward Mental Health and Mental Health Care," pp.367-378: T.S.Lebra and W.P.Lebra(eds.), Japanese Culture and Behavior - Selected Readings, Revised Edition, University of Hawaii Press, 1986.
仠Tsunetsugu Munakata: "Sociocultural Background of the Mental Health System in Japan,",Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 10(4):351-365, 1986丏
仠Tsunetsugu Munakata: "Psycho-Social Influence on Self-Care of the Hemodialysis Patient" ,Social Science and Medicine, 16(13):1253-1264, 1982丏

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