Division 8: Health Psychology
Report on Activities from 2002 to
2004
1. We have send letters to
53 VIPs in Health Psychology inviting them to join IAAP
2. The board (President:
Ralf Schwarzer, President-Elect: Esther Greenglass, Past-President: Stevan
Hobfoll) has appointed a Division Secretary, Dr. Aleksandra Luszczynska from
Warsaw University, Poland. She will be in charge of membership issues, budget,
newsletter contribution, among others.
3. We have nominated one
outstanding scientist for IAAP fellowship status
4. We have organized IAAP
sponsored symposia at the annual meetings of the European Health Psychology
Society (EHPS), in Kos, Greece, 2003
5. We have also had a
symposium on SARS at the APA meeting in Toronto, 2003.
6. Div 8 has been
instrumental in co-organizing the 2nd Asian Health Psychology Conference in
Seoul, Korea, as a satellite to ICP in August 2004.
7. We have nominated invited
speakers and invited symposia organisers for the 2006 meeting of IAAP in
Athens, Greece.
8. In Bejing, at
ICP, our President-Elect Esther Greenglass has been
invited to organize a symposium on SARS entitled, "Psychosocial Factors
and SARS: An Empirical Examination" in which researchers in health
psychologists from China, Singapore and Canada will report on the latest and
most up to date research regarding stress, anxiety and coping aspects related
to SARS and its psychological threat worldwide. This symposium has led to the
development of collaborative research projects between East and West where
resources are pooled to address a most urgent issue facing psychologists today,
namely response to the threat of infectious disease and its psychosocial
aspects.
9. In Helsinki, Finland, at
the EHPS (June 21-24, 2004) for the first time Division 8 of IAAP is
co-sponsoring a symposium with EHPS entitled, "Coping as a Synergistic
Concept: Implications for Health" chaired by E. Greenglass in which health
psychologists from German, Poland, Canada, and Finland will present research on
coping and its relationship to health. Such cooperative symposia highlight the
importance of cross-national collaboration and the interest in bringing
together health psychologists from various countires.
10.
At the
ICP in
11.
The
Health Psychology Division of IAAP has its own homepage that can be easily
accessed through http://www.healthpsych.de/
or directly at
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~health/iaap/
Ralf Schwarzer,
Freie
Div 8 President