President, The Academy for Health Counseling
The Academy for Health Counseling
801, 4-12-5 Minami Yawata, Ichikawa, JAPAN 272 -0023
Phone 81-47-314-1959
Fax 81-47-300-8277
E-mail: info@healthcounseling.org
http://www.healthcounseling.org
Tsunetsugu Munakata, Dr H Sc
Present Positions
Emeritus Professor, University of Tsukuba
President, the Academy for Health Counseling
Director-General, Institute of Health Behavioral Science
Director, SAT Therapy Centre, the Academy for Health Counseling
Previous Positions held
Professor and Chair，Division of Health Counseling and Socio-Behavioral Environment, Department of Human Care Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 2001-2013
Chair, Department of Human Care Sciences, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 2008〜2011
Professor, Institute of Health and Sport Science, University of Tsukuba,1998〜2013
Associate Professor, Institute of Health and Sport Science, University of Tsukuba,1989〜1998
Consultant, Global Program on AIDS, World Health Organization, Geneva, 1989-1991
Consultant, Division of Substance Abuse, World Health Organization, Geneva, 1992-1993
Director, Division of Society and Culture Research, National Institute of Mental Health, National Center for Neurology and Psychiatry, Chiba, Japan, 1986-89
Visiting Professor, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India, 1986
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan, 1985-1998
Professional Associate, Institute of Culture & Communication, East West Center, Honolulu, U.S.A. 1985
Chief, Division of Society and Culture Research, National Institute of Mental Health, Japan,1983-1986
Research Associate, Division of Society and Culture Research, National Institute of Mental Health, Japan, 1976-1983
Education and Training
Doctor of Health Sciences, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo,1982
Visiting Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, 1981-82
Visiting Fellow, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 1989
Major Area of Specialty
Health Behavioral Science, Mental Health Science
Address (office)
Institute of Health Behavioral Science
801, 4-12-5 Minami Yawata, Ichikawa, JAPAN 272 -0023
Phone 81-47-711-0069
Fax 81-47-300-8229
The Academy for Health Counseling
801, 4-12-5 Minami Yawata， Ichikawa, JAPAN 272 -0023
Phone 81-47-314-1959
Fax 81-47-300-8277
Birthplace
Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan
Nationality
Japanese
Awards
Excellent Article Award, Japanese Med. Soc. Alcohol and Drug Studies, JAPAN, 2001.
Excellent Award for Community Contribution, JGN2, JAPAN, 2007.
MARQUIS Who's Who in the World, USA, 2010, 2011,2012,2013
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.
Activities in Professional Organization
Executive Member, International Sociological Association, 2002-2006
Member of Council of Overseas Cooperation on AIDS, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Japan, 1994-1996
President, Japanese Association of Mental Health Sociology, 1993-present
President, Japan Academy for Health Behavioral Science, 1998-2007
President, Research Committee on Sociology of Mental Health and Illness, International Sociological Association, 1994-2002
International Advisory Board, AIDS & Society, U.S.A. 1989-1992
Consulting Editor, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, U.S.A. 1989-2002
Main Publications in English & in French
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- Onuoha FN, Munakata T: Gender psychosocial health of children orphaned by AIDS, Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies, 5:3, 256-257, Sep. 2010.
- Onuoha FN, Munakata T: Natural Mentoring as Palliative Care for Distressed AIDS-Orphaned Children, Selected Abstracts Journal of Palliative care, 26:3, Autumn. 2010.
- 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.
- 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.
- Munakata T, Reconstructing Life and Society with SAT Therapy: Foundations of the New Generation CBT, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF STRUCTURED ASSOCIATION TECHNIQUE3: 35-60, 2009.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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，13：21-27，2008．
- Kubota T, Munakata T: Relationship between Life Skills and Stress Response in University Students. Japanese Journal of Mental Health Sociology，14：41-46，2008.
- 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 Sociology，14：47-52,2008.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Francis N. Onuoha and Tsunetsugu Munakata: Implications of Amae for HIV Risk in Japanese Young Adults, Adolescence 40 (158) 397-402, 2005.
- Jessica P. Campano, Tsunetsugu Munakata: Anger and Aggression among Filipino Students. Adolesｃence39 (156) 757-764, 2004.
- 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.
- Sayuri Hashimoto, Tsunetsugu Munakata: Educational Effectiveness of Structured Association Technique Health Counseling Seminal Journol of Health Counseling. 10:25-34, 2004.
- Tsunetsugu Munakata: SAT Imagery Therapy for Families with Shu-in Kids. Japanese Society of Psychosomatic Medicine 42:37-46, 2003.
- 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.
- 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.
- Tsunetsugu Munakata: Social Health and Problems-HIV/AIDS, International Journal of Japanese Sociology (6):147-162, 1997.
- Tsunetsugu Munakata: AIDS: A Global Crisis & World Solidarity, Proceedings of The Third International Conference of Health Behavioral Science, Tokyo, 1996.
- Tsunetsugu Munakata: HIV Risk-relevant behaviors of Japanese adolescents, Proceedings of XI International Conference on AIDS, Vancouver, 1996.
- Tsunetsugu Munakata and Tajima K: Japanese risk behaviors and their HIV/AIDS preventive behaviors, AIDS Education and Prevention 8(2)： 115-135, 1996.
- 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.
- Tsunetsugu Munakata: AIDS in Japan、Akashi Shoten, Tokyo, pp.1-170, 1994.
- Tsunetsugu Munakata：Strengthening Preventive & Supportive Community Action on HIV/AIDS: Examining Effective Community Intervention, 1993 International Congress of Health Psychology: Proceedings, Tokyo, pp. 123-128, 1993.
- 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.
- Conrad P. and Gallagher E. (eds.): Medicine across Societies, Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1993.
- Tsunetsugu Munakata：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.
- 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.
- Tsunetsugu Munakata：Health Care Systems for Self-Initiated Health−A Future System Plan: M.K. Chytil, G.Duru, W.van Eimeren, CH.D.Flagle(eds.): Health Systems−the Challenge of Change, Omnipress Publisher Prague, pp.652-655, 1992.
- Tsunetsugu Munakata："Effective Health Policy for AIDS Prevention in Japan: Suggestions from International KABP Comparison, Shunichi Araki(ed.): Behavioral Medicine, Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., pp.223-228, 1992.
- Tsunetsugu Munakata: Report of the Second Meeting, Steering Committee on Behavioral Research. Global Programme on AIDS. World Health Organization, 1990.
- 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.
- Tsunetsugu Munakata: "The Sociocultural Significance of Diagnostic Label "Neurasthenia" in Japan's Mental Health Care System," Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 13(2):203-213，1989.
- 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.
- 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.
- Tsunetsugu Munakata: "Japan's Mental Health Care Delivery System in the Eighties," Journal of Mental Health、No.33:155-143, 1987.
- 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.
- 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.
- Tsunetsugu Munakata: "Sociocultural Background of the Mental Health System in Japan,",Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 10(4):351-365, 1986．
- Tsunetsugu Munakata: "Psycho-Social Influence on Self-Care of the Hemodialysis Patient" ,Social Science and Medicine, 16(13):1253-1264, 1982.