Health Psychology is the leading journal in evidence-based health psychology and behavioral medicine. Learn about the journal and how to submit your paper.

Health psychologists study how patients handle illness, why some people don’t follow medical advice and the most effective ways to control pain or change poor health habits. They also develop health care strategies that foster emotional and physical well-being.

From working in clinical settings to conducting research and influencing health care policy, health psychologists measure the impact of behavior on health and create ways to help people make the behavior choices that induce good health and prevent illness.

The 3-volume APA Handbook of Health Psychology describes in detail the basic foundations and context of health psychology, major issues in health psychology relating to public health and disease prevention, and major clinical approaches to health psychology.

Clinical health psychology is a professionally recognized specialty that investigates and implements clinical services across diverse populations and settings to promote health and well-being and to prevent, treat and manage illness and disability.

Introduction health. Health Psychology Volume 2. Clinical Interventions and Disease Management in Health Psychology

Division 38: The Society for Health Psychology (SfHP) seeks to improve the lives of individuals and society by promoting health, preventing illness, and improving health care through research, practice, education, training, and advocacy.

Apr 19, 2018 · the subfield of psychology that focuses on (a) the examination of the relationships between behavioral, cognitive, psychophysiological, and social and environmental factors and the establishment, maintenance, and detriment of health; (b) the integration of psychological and biological research findings in the design of empirically based ...

The answer is a complex one, rooted in long-standing conceptions of disease, illness, and health and compounded by structural divisions in societal approaches to health and well-being. Health psychology builds on many disciplines, applying their theories and methods to matters of health. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

Volume 2 presents key topics involved in the design, testing, and research applications of health psychology interventions to optimize disease management in those who have been diagnosed with a medical condition. The volume is presented in four parts.