Division 8: Health Psychology
Welcome to Division 8: Health Psychology.
Health psychology focuses on psychological processes that are related to the promotion, maintenance and rehabilitation of health, and the avoidance of and coping with illness (e.g., Matarazzo, 1980). Prominent fields of health psychological research are for example explaining, predicting and changing health-relevant behavior and the coping with stress and illness.
In line with IAAP’s article 1 of its constitution "...to promote the science and practice of applied psychology and to facilitate interaction and communication about applied psychology around the world", Division 8 Health Psychology aims at connecting health psychologists around the world.
Our division was founded in 1986, the first divisional president was Richard Evans. Division 8 is currently the second largest division of IAAP, our members come from all parts of the world.
President: Yiqun Gan
President-Elect: John de Wit
Past President: Sonia Lippke
Secretary and Community Liaison: Karolyna Zarychta
On this divisional webpage you will find information on the Executive Committee of the Division, on our activities reported in the divisional annual reports and newsletter inputs and on upcoming conferences.
Are you a member of IAAP Division 8 (Health Psychology) and attending EHPS 2023?
If so, we invite you to join the jury of the Best Applied Health Psychology Research Presentation award. This award is an initiative of IAAP Division 8 to recognize the importance of applied health psychology and will be awarded during the closing ceremony of EHPS 2023. As a jury member, you will rate the presentations in one or several oral sessions, using a standardized form. You may also be asked to contribute to ranking the presentations. Jury membership should not take much of your time in addition to attending the session(s). We aim to allocate jurors to sessions in their area of interest and acting as juror provides an opportunity to get to know division members and build our community. Please contact John de Wit, the division’s president-elect, at j.dewit@uu.nl if you want to join the IAAP Division 8 Best Applied Health Psychology Research Presentation award jury.
Support for displaced children from Ukraine
The story of ‘Olga, Boris and their new friends’ is a therapeutic tale created by more than 20 volunteers to help children refugees cope with their new reality. It is a story of two children and their mother fleeing the war in Ukraine. The book is available online free of charge as an e-book in Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, and English, as well as in an animated form with English subtitles. The originators of this initiative are professor Justyna Ziolkowska from SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Wroclaw, Poland, and professor Dariusz Galasinski from the University of Wroclaw, Poland.
E-Book in Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, and English
Animated video versions of the book: Ukrainian and Russian
Resources
Below are links to our past newsletters to stay up to date on latest activities and work Division 8 is currently doing.
- December 2024
- November 2024
- June 2024
- April 2024
- February 2024
- June 2023
- April 2023
- April 2022
- December 2021
- October 2021
- July 2021
- April 2021
- December 2020
- October 2020
- September 2020
- May 2020
- April 2020
- February 2020
- September 2019
- July 2019
- May 2019
- April 2019
- February 2019
- January 2019
- Spring 2018
- Fall 2017
- Spring 2017
- Fall 2016
- Spring 2016
- Fall 2015
Division 8 Social Media
Blogs
Journals
Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being
British Journal of Health Psychology
Health Pyschology and Behavioral Medicine
International Journal of Behavioral Medicine
International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology
Journal of Behavioral Medicine
Journal of Occupational Health Psychology
Translational Behavioral Medicine
Societies
European Health Psychology Society
Interaction Anxiousness Scale (IAS)
The IAS is composed of items describing subjective responses of anxiety (feeling tense, nervous, anxious, or uncomfortable) when confronting a variety of situations involving contingent social interactions, that is, situations in which an individual’s responses are contingent upon the responses of other persons with whom he or she interacts (e. g., a job interview, a conversation with a person of the opposite sex, talking to a teacher or a boss, talking on the telephone).
You could find more information about this instrument in the following link: Datasheet for IAAP Division 6
Get the instrument here:
Scale for Mood Assessment (EVEA)
This scale is also known as Mood Evaluation Scale . This instrument is aimed at assessing current mood, especially in the context of the administration of a mood induction procedure (MIP), but it can be used whenever there is a need to measure transitory moods at any one time.
You could find more information about this instrument in the following link: EVEA - Datasheet for IAAP Division 6
If you want to use this instrument, get it here:
Resources
Educative and Therapeutic Psychological Treatment Program for Child to Parents Violence, 2014