This chapter focuses on describing the behavioral health activities and services provided to the NASA United States’ astronauts by the Behavioral Health and Performance Group at Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas. Using the disciplines of aerospace psychology and aerospace psychiatry, the Group’s activities include astronaut selection, astronaut training, providing clinical services to the astronaut and their immediate family, and psychological support to the astronaut during all phases of their mission on the International Space Station.
Managing Behavioral Health in Space
Handbook of Bioastronautics ; Chapter : 118 ; 425-436
2021-08-17
12 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
Behavioral health , Aerospace psychology , Aerospace psychiatry , International space station mission , Astronaut selection and training Engineering , Aerospace Technology and Astronautics , Human Physiology , Medicine/Public Health, general , Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics) , Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering
Humanizing outer space: architecture, habitability, and behavioral health
Online Contents | 2010
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