Health Psychology News & Updates

Recent Articles

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   Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine: An Open Access Journal

   Find out more about our new Open Access journal Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine - the journals' editorial introduction - which asks and answers the question why we need an Open Access journal in this field - is now available online.

   Read the Editorial now.
   

   View the Instructions for Authors.
   

   Submit your Research Online.
   

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   How Open Access will change Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences

   In a major contribution to the era-defining debate, this full Special Issue of Psychological Inquiry offers a range of views on how the Open Access Science movement will impact the study and practice of Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences.
   
   Click here to read the FREE Special Issue in full.

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   Parenting: Science and Practice - Maternal love protects against ill effects of strict discipline

   A new study of Mexican-American adolescents from our journal Parenting; Science and Practice reports that a loving mother can ameliorate many of the psychological harms associated with an otherwise harsh disciplinary upbringing.

   Read the full report here.
   

4. Call for Papers – Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine: An Open Access Journal

   Submissions are invited to Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine: An Open Access Journal. This new Open Access journal will publish peer reviewed theoretical and empirical contributions on all aspects of research and scholarly practice into psychosocial, behavioral and biomedical influences on health, including assessment and diagnosis, treatment processes and recovery, health cognitions and behaviors at population and individual levels, psychosocial and behavioral prevention interventions, and psychosocial aspects of behavior, health, illness, and medicine

   Submit your article online
   Read the instructions for authors

5. 

   Author Mo Wang wins APA Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contributions to Psychology

   Routledge author Mo Wang has recently been selected as a recipient of the 2013 American Psychological Association (APA) Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology in the area of applied research.

   Dr. Wang will be presented with a formal personalized award citation along with a $1,000 prize to be shared with Dr. Andres De Los Reyes of the University of Maryland at the APA Convention in Honolulu, Hawaii, July 31-August 4, 2013. An announcement of all APA award recipients will also be printed in the May 2013 APA Monitor.

   We congratulate Dr.Wang on this great honor!

   For more information on the APA Distinguished Scientific Awards for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology, click here 

6. 

   Check Out Our Paperbacks Direct: Neuropsychology, Language Disorders and Health Psychology Catalog

   We have put together this online catalog filled with Paperback Direct Neuropsychology, Language Disorders and Health Psychology books published by Psychology Press and Routledge.

7. New Supplementary Issue from Psychology & Health

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   Research Methods in Occupational Health Psychology: Measurement, Design and Data Analysis

   Research Methods in Occupational Health Psychology: Measurement, Design, and Data Analysis provides a state-of-the-art review of current issues and best practices in the science of Occupational Health Psychology. Occupational Health Psychology (OHP) is a multidisciplinary and rapidly growing area of research and it is difficult or impossible for researchers to keep up with developments in all of the fields where scholars conduct OHP science.

9. Impact Factor News from our Health Psychology Journals

   We are celebrating the latest Impact Factor News from our Health Psychology Journals. Health Psychology Review and Psychology, Health & Medicine have received their first Impact Factors and Psychology & Health’s Impact Factor has reached an all-time high.

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    Sport and Exercise Psychology

    Written in a lively, accessible style, the book is brimful of vivid contemporary examples and insights from the world’s leading athletes, to provide a compelling bridge between theory and practice for undergraduate and postgraduate students of sport psychology, health psychology, sport science, physical education, kinesiology and leisure management.

    Instructors who adopt the book will be able to access a wealth of online teaching resources.