1st Edition
The Routledge International Handbook of Health Psychology Global and Contemporary Issues
This state-of-the-art handbook provides authoritative, up to date coverage of health psychology topics, offering an excellent, in-depth view of the field. Leading experts provide essential insights into the discipline of health psychology, its roots, future directions, and the networks and organisations involved.
Structured into eight parts, the book starts with defining health psychology including and providing an important historical overview. Subsequent sections examine theories and methodology, health behaviour, interpersonal relations and health, chronic disease and interventions. The concluding sections tackle the important areas of global health psychology and the future of Health Psychology. The editors and auditors include leading experts in the field as well as early career researchers from over 20 countries across the world. Global representation was a key goal in selecting authors.
While familiar areas receive ample attention this book strives to put the field of health psychology in context. As well as examining history this book spotlights global issues and explicitly mentions future developments and opportunities. The role of health psychology in the COVID-19 pandemic is considered and there is discussion more broadly on how health psychology can contribute to addressing societal challenges, including how to move forward sharing knowledge more firmly with policymakers.
This is an essential resource for scholars, PhD students and research master students specialising in the field of Health Psychology.
Section 1: Defining Health Psychology
1. History of Health Psychology
Angel Chater, Francis Quinn, and Val Morrison
2. Health psychology theories and models of behaviour
Phoebe Brook-Rowland, Felix Naughton, Vivi Antonopoulou, Marta Marques, and Angel Chater
3. Health Psychology’s Role within the Biopsychosocial Sciences
Karen Rodham, Lesley Lewis, Dan Masterson, Rachel Povey, Jenny Scott, Hannah Family, and Angel Chater
4. Professionalisation of Health Psychology
Karen Matvienko-Sikar, Julia Allan, Lisa Hynes, Jenny McSharry, Marta Marques, Vivien Swanson, and Angel Chater
5. Future Directions for the Discipline of Health Psychology
Angel Chater, Lucie Byrne-Davis, Elizabeth Jenkinson, and Jo Hart
Section 2: Theories and Methodology
6. How to work with theories of health behaviour change
Lisa Marie Warner and Ines Pfeffer
7. Illness Perceptions and Culture: A Common Sense Model Approach
Smita C. Banerjee, Shweta K. Chawak, Matsungshila Pongener, and Mahati Chittem
8. Research Design: Overview and recommendations
Nicola O’Brien
9. Measurement in Health Psychology
Alexandra Lelia Dima
10. Personality and health: The role of individual differences in theory, methods, and intervention
Christina M. Juchem and Eva Asselmann
Section 3: Health Behavior
11. Defining and specifying health behaviour – Conceptual overview
Stephan U Dombrowski and Gerard J Molloy
12. A behavioural perspective on health
Julia Allan
13. Understanding multiple health behaviours
Lena Fleig, Theda Radtke, and Stephan U Dombrowski
14. The role of health behaviour in obesity
Elizabeth H Evans, Amy L Ahern, Stephan U Dombrowski, and Milica Vasiljevic
15. Moving from description to explanation: how well can we explain medication taking behaviour?
Louise Foley and Gerard J Molloy
Section 4: Interpersonal Relations & Health
16. Interpersonal Relationships and Health
Mariët Hagedoorn and Noa Vilchinsky
17. Attachment Insecurity Shapes Physiological and Behavioural Responses to Stress: Implications for Couples Coping with Illness
Paula R. Pietromonaco, and Nickola C. Overall
18. An Overview of the Impact of Chronic Medical Illness on Sexuality
Chiara Acquati
19. Caregiving and Relationships
Val Morrison
20. Patient-provider relationships: A linchpin in medical care
Arnstein Finset
Section 5: Chronic Diseases
21. Introduction to Chronic Diseases
Konstadina Griva and Stanton P Newman
22. Coping with Symptoms and Treatments
Frederick HF Chan and Konstadina Griva
23. The Psychosocial Impact of Chronic Disease
Evangelos C. Karademas and Yael Benyamini
24. Self-Management and Adherence in the Context of Chronic Diseases
She Rui
25. The Role of Technology in Chronic Illness
Prof Elizabeth Broadbent and Dr Kate Loveys
Section 6: Interventions
26. Introduction: Theoretical foundations of health psychology
Jemma Todd, Amelia Scott, and Rachel Menzies
27. Interventions in chronic disease
Amelia Williams and Amelia J. Lake
28. Community-based interventions
Hamsini Sivaramakrishnan, Matthew McDonald, and Eleanor Quested
29. Health Behaviour Change Interventions
Barbara Mullan, Caitlin Liddelow, Hayley Breare, and Chloe Maxwell-Smith
30. Implementation strategies: From lab to field
Joanna Moullin, Matthew McLaughlin, and Matthew McDonald
Section 7: Global Health Psychology
31. An Introduction to ‘Global Health Psychology’
Bronwyne Coetzee, Rizwana Roomaney, and Lucie Byrne-Davis
32. What is the state of Health Psychology in the Global South?
Enoch Teye-Kwadjo, Darlina Hani Fadil Azim, Asma Toorkham, and Jo Hart
33. Challenges Currently Felt in the Global South
Vica Tomberge, Asma Toorkham, Enoch Teye-Kwadjo, and Benjamin Ambuehl
34. Community-Based Participatory Action Research (CBPAR): A Research Methodology for Impactful, Culturally Sensitive and Contextually Appropriate Health Psychology
Benjamin Ambuehl, Richard Appiah, Asma Toorkham, and Irene A. Kretchy
35. Collaboration and Research Ethics in Health Psychology
Katherine Sorsdahl, Ifeanyichukwu Anthony Ogueji, and Ashraf Kagee
Section 8: Current Challenges and Opportunities - The Future of Health Psychology
36. The future of Health Psychology: Challenges and opportunities in the next decades
Dominika Kwasnicka and Olga Perski
37. Well-being across the lifespan: Healthy and happy ageing
Anne Tiedemann and Cathie Sherrington
38. Health Psychology in the age of digital health
Bradford W. Hesse, Jessica M. Lipschitz, David K. Ahern, and Dominika Kwasnicka
39. Six ways Health Psychology can contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation
Guillaume Chevance and Paquito Bernard
40. Policy implications – Health Psychology and the case of COVID-19
Gill A. ten Hoor and Robert A.C. Ruiter
Biography
Robbert Sanderman is emeritus professor of Health Psychology at the University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands. His research is focused on psychological and social adaptive processes in patients diagnosed with a chronic somatic disease (e.g., cancer, diabetes, heart failure, and COPD) and eHealth interventions. He supervised 70 PhD projects, co-edited several handbooks on chronic disease, and co-authored over 450 publications (articles, book chapters, and books). He has been on board of numerous societies in the field and is a Past President and Fellow of the European Health Psychology Society.
Karen Morgan has co(authored) over 100 international publications and book chapters as well as 13 National reports and policy briefs. She is a Past President and Fellow of the European Health Psychology Society who has taught health and organisational psychology in a number of countries across the world. Based in Malaysia she has a wide network of international multidisciplinary collaborators from fields as diverse as medicine to computer science and engineering.”
