Hironori Shimada

Hironori Shimada is Professor at Waseda University’s Faculty of Human Sciences and a member of the Science Council of Japan. Holding a Ph.D. from Waseda, he has served continuously on the faculties of Waseda, Niigata and Hiroshima Universities since 1996, specialising in clinical psychology, cognitive-behavioural therapy, stress management and public-health education.

Education:

• 1996 – Ph.D. in Health Sciences, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Waseda University

Research interests: Shimada’s work integrates cognitive-behavioural models with public-health approaches to develop and validate interventions for stress, anxiety, addiction, sexual offending, gambling disorder, and childhood behavioural problems. He investigates mechanisms such as cognitive fusion, self-compassion, and contingency perception, and translates findings into scalable manuals, smartphone apps, and school-based programmes.

Recent articles (2024-2025) reveal concentrated effort on:

• Forensic CBT (sex-offender and adolescent-delinquency programmes),
• Addiction CBT (gambling, internet-gaming, kleptomania) utilising ACT and mindfulness components,
• Stress-management education in schools and workplaces (self-compassion, help-seeking, teacher mental-health),
• Psychometric development (Japanese versions of IORNS, cognitive-fusion scales, gambling-urge scales).

Scientific awards:

• JSSM Awards 2018
• JAHP Awards 2018
• JABCT Awards 2017
• Japan Society for Stress Management Award (joint) 2017
• JABT Awards 2006 & 2004
• JACS Awards 2001
• JSBM Awards 2001
• JSPM & JAHP Awards 1997

Advising & grants: While individual student names are not listed, Shimada leads large-scale school-based intervention trials and forensic treatment projects implying substantial graduate supervision; funding sources are implied through continuous institutional and ministerial committee appointments.

Labs & teams: He heads clinical-psychology laboratories within Waseda’s Faculty of Human Sciences, coordinating multi-site projects on CBT dissemination, stress-management scale development, and forensic risk assessment, while collaborating with correctional and educational authorities nationwide.