{"id":13,"date":"2019-07-30T23:35:12","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T23:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/psy\/RMHLab\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2026-05-06T15:45:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:45:27","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/psy\/RMHLab\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Relationships and Mental Health Lab is led by Dr. Susan C. South, Ph.D., a Professor in the Clinical area of the Department of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University. We study the interplay between important relationships in one&#8217;s life, particularly intimate romantic relationships, and the experience of psychopathology (i.e., symptoms and associated features of mental illness). The goal of the lab is to identify when relationships can be a positive support during the experience of mental illness and when dysfunctional relationships can be a stressor that triggers or exacerbates mental illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:0px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"771\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/psy\/RMHLab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-31-at-3.01.19-PM-771x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/psy\/RMHLab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-31-at-3.01.19-PM-771x1024.png 771w, 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Relationships and Mental Health Lab is led by Dr. Susan C. South, Ph.D., a Professor in the Clinical area of the Department of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University. We study the interplay between important relationships in one&#8217;s life, particularly intimate romantic relationships, and the experience of psychopathology (i.e., symptoms and associated features of mental &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/psy\/RMHLab\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/psy\/RMHLab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/psy\/RMHLab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/psy\/RMHLab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/psy\/RMHLab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/psy\/RMHLab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/psy\/RMHLab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/psy\/RMHLab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/hhs\/psy\/RMHLab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}