Health Psychology

Special issue of the APA journal Health Psychology, Vol. 39, No. 9, September 2020. This special issue showcases how investigators working in different areas of health behavior change are utilizing early phase studies to advance intervention development.

Special issue of the APA journal Health Psychology, Vol. 38, No. 9, September 2019. Topics include relevance, measurement, mechanisms, and interventions for multimorbidity.

Special issue of the APA journal Health Psychology, Vol. 38, No. 5, May 2019. The case features outcomes research and applications of universal health-related quality of life measures produced under the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System initiative.

Special issue of the APA journal Health Psychology, Vol. 35, No. 8, August 2016. Includes articles about tobacco use, eating behavior, physical activity, alcohol consumption, condom use, and the impact of implicit prejudice on physical and mental health.

Special issue of the APA journal Health Psychology, Vol. 35, No. 4, April 2016. The papers offer windows into cutting-edge themes, methodologies, challenges, and future directions in understanding psychosocial factors and sociocultural sequelae as they relate to cardiovascular health disparities.

Special issue of the APA journal Health Psychology, Vol. 34, No. S, December 2015. The issue includes 11 papers that address the need for more rigorous methodology, valid assessment, innovative interventions, and increased access to evidence-based programs and interventions.

Special issue of the APA journal Health Psychology, Vol. 34, No. 4, April 2015. The issue showcases a range of qualitative research projects conducted by health psychologists with a view to promoting greater uptake and development of qualitative research methods in the field.

Special issue of the APA journal Health Psychology, Vol. 33, No. 6, June 2014. The studies used diverse measures to quantify social relationships, ranging from network size or composition and social integration to availability of a confidante and quality of social interactions.

Special issue of the APA journal Health Psychology, Vol. 32, No. 9, September 2013. The issue was designed to attract both conceptual and empirical articles, to present a wide spectrum of thinking and methods, and to illustrate how behavioral economics might address today's pressing health problems.

Special issue of the APA journal Health Psychology, Vol. 32, No. 5, May 2013. Articles highlight major areas of innovation in recent social/personality psychology that hold promise for synergistic integration with health psychology and related fields in the pursuit of adequate health promotion, health care, and population health.

Special issue of the APA journal Health Psychology, Vol. 32, No. 1, January 2013. The first section focuses on public health issues, including physical exercise, alcohol consumption, and help-seeking. The second section covers illness-related phenomena, including male-specific cancers, sports-induced disability, and male sterilization.

Special issue of the APA journal Health Psychology, Vol. 27, No. 3 (Suppl.), May 2008. Articles discuss psychosocial processes underlying smoking; modern science and tobacco research; initiation and maintenance of smoking cessation; depressive symptoms and cigarette smoking; functional beliefs about smoking and quitting activity; processing of anti-smoking messages; and effect of regulatory focus on performance in smoking and weight loss interventions.

Special issue of the APA journal Health Psychology, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Supplement), March 2008. Includes articles about mediation and moderation of psychological factors in patients with diabetes; chronic pain; cancer caregivers; and high blood pressure, as well as adolescent health; physical activity; and sexual risk reduction in women.

Special issue of the APA journal Health Psychology, Vol. 27, No. 1, Suppl, January 2008. It was developed to highlight some of the fundamental issues from a biological, cognitive, social, and environmental perspective for understanding the impact of intervention effects on behavior change processes and ultimate health.

Special issue of the APA journal Health Psychology, Vol. 24, No. 4, July 2005. Includes articles about decision-making strategies, linking decision making research and cancer prevention and treatment, communication models in shared decision making, regret, coping, and advanced directives and end-of-life decisions.

Special issue of the APA journal Health Psychology, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Suppl.), January 2000. Includes articles about long-term maintenance of weight loss and diet; relapse and maintenance issues for smoking cessation; physical activity behavior change; lapse, relapse, and the maintenance of behavior change; and theory-based analysis of behavioral maintenance.

Special issue of the APA journal Health Psychology, Vol. 17, No. 2, March 1998. Includes articles about patients with spinal cord injuries; AIDS; heart disease; and dementia and their caregivers.

Special issue of the APA journal Health Psychology, Vol. 16, No. 1, January 1997. The articles address a broad range of genetic tests, including predictive testing for Huntington’s disease, carrier testing for cystic fibrosis, genetic testing for hereditary forms of breast and colon cancer, and testing for susceptibility to the carcinogenic effects of tobacco.

Special issue of the APA journal Health Psychology, Vol. 14, No. 7, December 1995. Focusing on minority health, topics discussed include epidemiology; macrosocial and environmental influences; behavioral risk factors; risk-taking and abusive behaviors; adaptive health behaviors; and the health care system.