Health Psychology
A section of Behavioral Sciences (ISSN 2076-328X).
Section Information
Health Psychology is a landmark Section of the Behavioral Sciences journal and a prime Section of the expanding discipline that is health psychology. This Section is supported by a well-respected team of scholars. It provides a unique area with an aim to advance all aspects of psychology that directly relate to illness, health and behavior.
Researchers will be encouraged to utilize a range of methodologies and approaches that are able to challenge current thinking. The range can include traditional experimental research through to ethnographic-based research. We will actively encourage novel methodologies using various paradigmatic positions taken to view the world. We require that all experimental-based research provides a registration number with a trial registry website and would generally expect reviews to have protocols. We will accept protocols.
The following areas will be a focus, including how chronic illnesses are experienced by individuals and managed, the response of people to health-related interventions, the identification of screening and assessment of illness and ill health, the psychometric properties of tools that consider health, behavior change interventions that influence psychological health outcomes, the understanding of psycho-emotional responses to pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment approaches, and the correlates and mediators that influence health-related quality of life and the prevention of ill health.
Studies published in this journal will require full ethical approval from an institutional-based ethics board.
Editorial Board
Topical Advisory Panel
Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Physical Activity for Psychological and Cognitive Development (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Preventing and Mitigating the Psychological Harm of Cyberbullying (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- The Shaping of Services for Health Promotion (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Psychological Well-Being and Mental Health (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Innovations in Music Based Interventions for Psychological Wellbeing (Deadline: 31 December 2024)
- Providing Emotional Support for People with Chronic Diseases (Deadline: 31 January 2025)
- Exploring the Complexity of Internalizing Disorders in Suicidal Youth and Suicide Prevention (Deadline: 28 February 2025)
- Role of Recreation and Outdoor Activities in Promoting Mental Health and Positive Behaviors in People of All Ages (Deadline: 1 March 2025)
- Suicidal Behaviors: Prevention, Intervention and Postvention (Deadline: 30 March 2025)
- Applications of Integrated Social Cognition Theories in Predicting and Changing Health Behavior (Deadline: 31 March 2025)
- Physical Activity for Mental Health: The Diverse Evidence and New Avenues (Deadline: 31 March 2025)
- Embracing Aging in Place: Fostering Healthy Cognitive Aging in the Community (Deadline: 31 March 2025)
- Psychosocial Care and Support in Dementia (Deadline: 15 April 2025)
- Stress and Children’s, Adolescents' and Young Adults’ Ways to Cope with It (Deadline: 15 April 2025)
- Approaches That Enable Analytical Generalization in Psychological and Sociological Research (Deadline: 18 April 2025)
- Psychological Flexibility for Health and Wellbeing (Deadline: 18 April 2025)
- The Impact of Psychosocial Factors on Health Behaviors (Deadline: 20 April 2025)
- Mental Health Development under Contextual Adversity and Psychosocial Stress (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
- The Impact of Music on Individual and Social Well-Being (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
- Healthy Even through Cancer—the Use of Narrations in Oncological Settings (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
- Digital Mental Health Interventions for Children and Young People (Deadline: 31 May 2025)
- Mental Health and the Natural Environment (Deadline: 1 June 2025)
- The Impact of Trauma, Adversity and Violence on Societal Health (Deadline: 30 June 2025)
- Tackling Cyberbullying, Social Media, and Problematic Internet and Mobile Use: Research and Strategies for Effective Intervention (Deadline: 30 June 2025)
- Perfectionism, Overthinking, and Psychological Consequences (Deadline: 30 June 2025)
- School-Based Mental Health Systems: Psychological Care for Children and Youth (Deadline: 20 July 2025)
- Narrative Approaches and Practice in Health Psychology (Deadline: 31 July 2025)
- Advances in Clinical Interventions on Grief (Deadline: 31 July 2025)
- The Impact of Sport and Physical Activity on the Mental Health of Adolescents and Children (Deadline: 31 July 2025)
- Diagnosis and Psychological Intervention for Bipolar Disorder: From Childhood to Adulthood (Deadline: 31 August 2025)
- Life Satisfaction and Mental Health in Migrant Children (Deadline: 30 September 2025)
- Cognitive Processes After Alcohol Use (Deadline: 31 October 2025)
- Promoting Health Behaviors in the New Media Era (Deadline: 31 December 2025)
