EHPS 2015 - 29th Conference of the European Health Psychology Society

The following 19 tracks have been proposed for EHPS 2015. Any submission must fall within one of the tracks. Click on the track name for more information.
1. eHealth and mHealth
Chairs: Rik Crutzen (NL), Felix Naughton (UK)
The use of information technology, social media, or mobile and wireless devices in health psychology research and interventions
2. Resilience and Health
Chairs: Geir Arild Espnes (Norway), Evangelos Karademas (Greece)
Resilience factors and individual difference variables in relation to health and illness
3. Stress and Coping
Chairs: Andrea Horn (Switzerland), Georgia Panayiotou (Cyprus)
How psychosocial demands and resources affect emotional distress, coping and health outcomes (except coping with chronic illness, see track 5)
4. Self-Regulation in health and illness
Chairs: Anna Levke Brütt (Germany), Martin Dempster (Ireland)
Contributions related to goal or self-regulation theory, including self-determination theory, the common sense model and illness perceptions
5. Chronic Disease, Pain and Psychosomatic Issues
Chairs: Veronique de Gucht (NL), Ronan O’Carroll (UK)
Issues associated with health and illness associated with pain, chronic illness, or psychosomatic issues (except interventions, see track 6)
6. Interventions in Chronic Disease
Chairs: Trudie Chalder (UK), Maria Karekla (Cyprus)
Interventions delivered to patients or high risk individuals (e.g. hypertension, obesity)
7. Ageing and Older People
Chairs: Kevin McKee (Sweden), Lisa Marie Warner (Germany)
Issues in health and illness related to older age and ageing (e.g., disability, caregiving)
8. Social Support and Health
Chairs: Marios Adonis (Cyprus), Mariët Hagedoorn (NL)
How social support impacts on health outcomes
9. Health, Families, and Children
Chairs: Maria da Graça Pereira Alves (Portugal), Jan Willem Nieuwenboom (Switzerland)
Issues in health and illness associated with development of children and adolescents and with family relations
10. Well-being and Quality of Life
Chairs: AnnMarie Groarke (Ireland), Maria Teresa Munoz Sastre (France)
Health, illness and positive aspects such as positive emotions, life satisfaction, and functioning
11. Health Behaviour Change Models
Chairs: Molly Byrne (Ireland), Sonia Lippke (Germany)
The application of theoretical models (e.g., social cognition models, dual process models) to the prediction of health behaviour
12. Health Behaviour Change Interventions
Chairs: Denise de Ridder (NL), Lena Fleig (Germany/Canada)
Theory-based interventions aimed at health behavior change
13. Public Health and Health Promotion
Chairs: Nelli Hankonen (Finland), Rachel Povey (UK)
Public health interventions delivered to a group or population, including environmental interventions and interventions at the worksite (for work and health, see track 17)
14. Risk Perception and Communication in Healthcare Settings
Chairs: Peter Harris (UK), Rob Ruiter (NL)
Perception and communication of health risk, including genetic risk and procession of health-risk information (including self-affirmation)
15. Health Services Research
Chairs: Karen Morgan (Malaysia/Ireland), Efharis Panagopoulou (GR)
Quality of health care, medical performance and medical mistakes, and communication with health professionals (e.g., doctor-patient)
16. Culture, Social Change and Health
Chairs: Elvira Cicognani (Italy), Antonia Lyons (New Zealand)
Cultural or socioeconomic aspects of health and illness, and health effects of social change; critical health psychology
17. Occupational Health
Chairs: Anthony Montgomery (Greece), Margot van der Doef (NL)
Studies on the impact of work on health outcomes
18. Psychophysiology, Psychoneuroimmunology and Neurophysiology
Chairs: Claus Vögele (Luxembourg), Mark Wetherell (UK)
Psychobiological aspects of health and illness, psychoneuroimmunology, endocrinology, cardio- vascular psychophysiology and neurophysiology
19. Methodology
Chairs: Frank Doyle (Ireland), Wendy Hardeman (UK)
Methodological issues in health psychology ? techniques, analyses, and critiques