Rate My Professor tegan cruwys

Cruwys's scholarly impact is substantial, with nearly 20,000 citations on Google Scholar. Her seminal contributions include the co-authored book The New Psychology of Health: Unlocking the Social Cure (Routledge, 2018, 1104 citations), Depression and social identity: An integrative review (Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2014, 817 citations), Social group memberships protect against future depression, alleviate depression symptoms and prevent depression relapse (Social Science & Medicine, 2013, 789 citations), Groups 4 Health: Evidence that a social-identity intervention that builds and strengthens social group membership improves mental health (Journal of Affective Disorders, 2016, 585 citations), Advancing the social identity approach to health and well-being: Progressing the social cure research agenda (European Journal of Social Psychology, 2017, 751 citations), and Together apart: The psychology of Covid-19 (Sage, 2020, 503 citations). Previously an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow and Associate Professor, she has translated theoretical insights into evidence-based interventions like Groups 4 Health, influencing mental health policy and practice. Recent works, such as Disorders of Self-Categorization: How and Why a Healthy Social Self-System Is the Cornerstone of Mental Health (Psychological Review, 2025) and Nothing is so impactful as good theory: Evidence for the impact of the social identity approach to health on policy and practice (Social Science & Medicine, 2025), underscore her ongoing leadership in integrating social psychology with clinical applications.