TRACKS
Health Psychology in Context
1. Health inequalities and inclusion
Research on how inequalities impact on health and how to tackle such effects, including inclusiveness approaches
2. Cultural and societal influences (on health and illness)
Cultural aspects of health and illness, health effects of social change; critical health psychology
3. Health and risk communication
Communication with health professionals (e.g., doctor-patient), including perception and communication of health risk (e.g., genetic risk and procession of health-risk information)
4. Climate crisis and sustainability
Psychosocial and health impact of climate change and the climate crisis; behavior change for preserving the environment, mitigating negative consequences of climate change and ensuring sustainable development
Health Psychology and Health Systems
5. Public health, health promotion and health policy
Public health, health promotion and healthy policy interventions delivered to a group or population, including environmental interventions and interventions at the worksite (for work and health, see “Occupational Health” track)
6. Implementation science and health services research
Theory, methods, and evidence to promote the uptake of research findings into routine clinical work with patients and family members, and in organisational or policy contexts. Quality of health care, medical performance and medical mistakes in clinical practice
7. AI and Digital health
The use of information technology, social media, or mobile and wireless devices in health psychology research and interventions, including artificial intelligence
8. Occupational health
Research on the influence of work and organisational factors and environments on health and disease and associated outcomes
Lifespan Perspectives on Health, Well-Being, and Support
9. Health across the lifespan
Health and illness across different life stages, focusing on child and adolescent development, family dynamics, and the challenges and opportunities of ageing, including healthy ageing.
10. Well-being, quality of life and mental health
Health, illness and impacts on well-being, quality of life, and mental health including positive aspects such as positive emotions, life satisfaction, and functioning
11. Social support, caregiving, and health outcomes
The influence of social support and caregiving on health outcomes (of recipients and/or providers)
Health Behaviour and Theory
12. Developing and testing theories of health behaviour change
The application of theoretical models (e.g., social cognition models, dual process models) to the to the prediction of health behaviour and health behaviour change
13. Health behaviour change interventions
Theory-based interventions aimed at health behaviour change
14. Individual differences/ personality and health
Individual difference variables such as personality characteristics and their relationship to health and illness
Health Psychology and Illness/Biological Psychology
15. Self-regulation and coping with symptoms and illness
Self-regulation and self-regulation theories; coping with symptoms (e.g., pain), illness, and their consequences (except interventions, see “Interventions in disease management”).
16. Interventions in disease management
Interventions delivered to people diagnosed with disease or high risk groups (e.g., hypertension, obesity), focused on quality of life
17. Stress, physiology and health
The influence of psychosocial demands and resources on biological systems (including psychoneuroimmunology, endocrinology, cardio- vascular psychophysiology and neurophysiology), emotional distress, coping and health outcomes (except coping with chronic illness, see “Self-regulation and coping with symptoms and illness” track)
Methodology
18. Methodology
Methodological issues in health psychology – techniques, analyses, and critiques, including research on recruitment, informed consent and retention
Spotlight Talks
Early Career Researcher (ECR) Spotlight Talks
ECR Spotlight Talk is aimed at providing postgraduate students, Ph.D. students, and early postdocs with the opportunity to present their research in a short, concentrated oral format. Contributions will be grouped into sessions with a discussant allocated by the CREATE committee