The Sage Handbook of Health Psychology

2. Revised Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-5297-9185-3
Verlag: Sage Publications Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 1320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

The field of health psychology has undergone transformative growth and development over the past 20 years This two-volume set captures the evolution of the field, providing a comprehensive and up-to-date reference for researchers, practitioners, and students. Each volume delves into critical aspects of health psychology, from foundational theories and methods to practical applications and interventions. This set is essential reading for those seeking to understand and apply health psychology principles to improve health and wellbeing outcomes.

Volume One: Contexts, Theory, and Methods in Health Psychology

The Sage Handbook of Health Psychology, 2e Volume One: Contexts, Theory and Methods in Health Psychology is focused on the foundational contexts, theories, and methods that underpin health psychology today. The Handbook covers diverse perspectives, including socio-political, cultural, and ethical issues, and provides an in-depth exploration of biological health psychology, theories of health-related behavior, and advanced research methodologies. Essential for postgraduate students, researchers, and practitioners, this Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the current state of research and knowledge in health psychology.

Section One: Contexts and Perspectives

Section Two: Theories of Health-Related Behavior

Section Three: Biological Health Psychology: Theories and Approaches

Section Four: Methods and Measurement in Health Psychology

Volume Two: Issues, Debates and Applications of Health Psychology

The Sage Handbook of Health Psychology, 2e Volume Two: Issues, Debates andApplications of Health Psychology covers the practical applications of health psychology, addressing intervention development, health improvement strategies, mental health and wellbeing, health protection, and the integration of health psychology into policy and professional practice. With contributions from leading experts, this is an indispensable resource for those looking to apply health psychology principles to real-world challenges. This Handbooks is a must-read for postgraduate students, researchers, and practitioners aiming to improve health and wellbeing outcomes through evidence-based practices.

Section One: Issues and Debates in Health Psychology

Section Two: Intervention Development Approaches

Section Three: Health Improvement Interventions and Preventive Behaviors

Section Four: Improving Mental Health and Wellbeing

Section Five: Health Protection Interventions and Long-term Conditions

Section Six: Health Psychology in Practice

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cheng, Cecilia

Brown, Katherine

Hamilton, Kyra

Hagger, Martin S.

Sutton, Stephen R

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Volume One: Contexts, Theory, and Methods in Health Psychology
Section One: Contexts and Perspectives
Chapter 1: The History and Development of Health Psychology in the United Kingdom - Francis Quinn, Val Morrison, Angel Marie Chater
Chapter 2: The History of Health Psychology in the United States - Robert M. Kaplan, Dawn K. Wilson
Chapter 3: Histories of Health Psychology in Europe - Irina Todorova
Chapter 4: The History and Evolution of Health Psychology in the Asia-Pacific region - John W Toumbourou, Renati Solomon, Shree Solomon, Afonso Soares, Simao do Rosario, Hua-Hie Yong, Bosco Rowland
Chapter 5: Socio-Political and Cross-Cultural Issues in Health Psychology - Shivani Sharma, Emma Caton
Chapter 6: Health and a lifespan perspective on sex, gender, and sexuality diverse people’s lives - Mathijs Lucassen, George Parker
Chapter 7: The Psychology of Disability and Health: Moving from Health Disparity to Social Identity - Kathleen R. Bogart
Chapter 8: Ethical considerations in health psychology - Rik Crutzen
Section Two: Theories of Health-Related Behaviour
Chapter 9: Social cognition models - Stephen Sutton
Chapter 10: Stage Theories - Christopher J. Armitage
Chapter 11: Duality Theories - Roland Deutsch, Fritz Strack

Chapter 12; Choice architecture interventions: changing environments to change health-related behaviours - Gareth J Hollands, Natasha Clarke, James P Reynolds
Chapter 13: Illness Perceptions - Martin Dempster
Chapter 14: Personality, Individual Differences and Health - Tim Bogg, Elizabeth Milad, Olivia Godfrey
Chapter 15: Stress and Coping - Andrew Steptoe, Ruth A. Hackett
Chapter 16: Behaviour Change Techniques and Mechanisms of Action - Lauren Connell Bohlen, Marie Johnston, Susan Michie
Section Three: Biological Health Psychology: Theories and Approaches
Chapter 17: Epidemiology of Health and Well-being - Sofia L. Panasiuk, Levi D. Stutzman, Felix Cheung
Chapter 18: Biological Determinants – Physiology of Health and Illness - Emily J. Jones, Brianna N. Natale, Anna L. Marsland
Chapter 19: Psychophysiology: Linking brain and bodily processes - J. Richard Jennings, Peter J. Gianaros
Chapter 20: Psychoneuroimmunology - E. Lydia Wu-Chung, Jensine Paoletti, Christopher P. Fagundes
Chapter 21: Stress and Illness - Daryl B. O’Connor, Stephen Gallagher, Ruth A. Hackett
Chapter 22: Cognition, Health and Ageing - Laura J. E. Brown, Gemma Stringer, David P. French
Chapter 23: Health Neuroscience: Understanding the mechanisms of psychosocial and contextual effects on behavior and health - Leonie Koban
Chapter 24: The Function of Sleep in Promoting Psychological and Brain Health - Xiaoqing Hu, Peng Li, Shengzi Zeng
Section Four: Methods and Measurement in Health Psychology
Chapter 25: Selecting, Developing, and Analyzing Measures in Health Psychology - Sarah Depaoli, Ren Liu
Chapter 26: Personalized N-of-1 Trials - Mark J. Butler, Elizabeth A. Vrany, Stefani D’Angelo, Theodoros P. Zanos, Codruta Chiuzan, Karina W. Davidson
Chapter 27: Experimental Designs and Randomized Controlled Trials - Kenneth E. Freedland
Chapter 28: Evidence synthesis methods: Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses - Gerard J. Molloy, Eimear C. Morrissey, Jennifer Mc Sharry
Chapter 29: Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis - Jonathan A Smith, Isabella E Nizza
Chapter 30: Thematic Analysis - Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Gareth Terry, Lucie Wheeler
Chapter 31: Discursive methodologies and health psychology - Abigail Locke
Chapter 32: Grounded Theory - Andrew Soundy
Chapter 33: Doing narrative analysis: a theoretical and practical guide for health psychologists - Javier Monforte, Brett Smith
Chapter 34: Qualitative Evidence Synthesis in Health Psychology - Rachel Shaw, Christian Borg-Xuereb, Amy Burton, William Day, Tiago Moutela, Katharine Slade
Chapter 35: Mixed method designs in Health Psychology - Richard O. de Visser, Nina C. Lockwood
Volume Two: Issues, Debates and Applications of Health Psychology
Section One: Issues and Debates in Health Psychology
Chapter 1: Replication and Open Science in Health Psychology - Martin S. Hagger, Kyra Hamilton
Chapter 2: Methodological Quality in Health Psychology Research - Blair T. Johnson, Matthew B. Jané, Christine M. Curley, Chen Li, Lisset Martinez-Berman
Chapter 3: Digital Approaches in Health Psychology - Heidi Sturk, Jennifer Connolly, Kate Hatchman, David J. Kavanagh
Chapter 4: Measurement in Health Psychology - Diane Dixon, Chantal Den Das, Marie Johnston
Chapter 5: Issues and Debates in Health-Related Quality of Life - Suzanne M. Skevington, Joanne Greenhalgh
Section Two: Intervention Development Approaches
Chapter 6: Intervention Mapping: Planning Health Promotion Programs - Gill A. ten Hoor, Christine M. Markham, María E. Fernández, Robert A.C. Ruiter
Chapter 7: The Behaviour Change Wheel Approach to Intervention Development - Paul M Chadwick
Chapter 8: The Person-Based Approach to Intervention Development - Lucy Yardley, Kate Greenwell, Kate Morton, James Denison-Day, Ingrid Muller
Chapter 9: The RE-AIM Framework: Evolutions and Applications in Health Psychology - Christina R. Studts, Russell E. Glasgow
Section Three: Health Improvement Interventions and Preventive Behaviors
Chapter 10: Overweight and Obesity - Marie L. Caltabiano
Chapter 11: Physical activity as a health behaviour - Stuart J.H. Biddle
Chapter 12: Active Travel Behaviour: Methodological and Conceptual Research Issues - Samuel Ginja
Chapter 13: Understanding alcohol consumption and preventing alcohol-related harms - Richard Cooke, Emma L Davies
Chapter 14: Tobacco, nicotine, and cessation - Felix Naughton
Chapter 15: Sexual Health and Condom Use - Katie Newby, Rob Stephenson, Louise Jackson, Maurine Murtagh
Chapter 16: Drowning Prevention Behaviours - Kyra Hamilton, Stephanie R. Smith, Amy E. Peden, Jacob J. Keech, Martin S. Hagger
Chapter 17: Psychosocial Perspectives for Prevention and Intervention - Katherine M. White, Xiang Zhao
Chapter 18: Behaviours in the prevention of communicable diseases - Chantal den Daas, Marie Johnston, and Diane Dixon
Section Four: Mental Health and Wellbeing
Chapter 19: Suicide and Mental Health: Challenges, Opportunities and Future Directions - Ingrid D. Lui, Vera Yu Men, Cheuk Yui Yeung, Paul S. F. Yip
Chapter 20: The Development of Substance Use Disorders: From Complexity to Action - Reinout W. Wiers, Helle Larsen,Maarten van den Ende, Han L. J. van der Maas
Chapter 21: Coping in Context: An Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, and Sociocultural Process - Talia Morstead, Anita DeLongis
Chapter 22: Digital Well-being and Digital Health - Cecilia Cheng, Omid V. Ebrahimi
Section Five: Health Protection Interventions and Long-term Conditions
Chapter 23: Psychological Processes in Screening Behaviour - Sheina Orbell, Olayinka Farris
Chapter 24: Information Provision and Vaccination Behavior - Jose Arellano, Silvia Saccardo, Gretchen Chapman
Chapter 25: Oral Health - Heather Buchanan, Koula Asimakopoulou
Chapter 26: Health Psychology and Infection Control During a Pandemic: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic - Marijn de Bruin, F. Marijn Stok, John Drury
Section Six: Health Psychology in Practice
Chapter 27: Health psychology for health professions: Practice change and supporting the use of health psychology by other professions - Rebecca Turner, Lucie Byrne-Davis, Jo Hart
Chapter 28: Applications of behaviour change science in public health: the UK, the World Health Organisation and the United Nations - Katherine E Brown, Neil Howlett, Michelle Constable, Anna Sallis, Nicky Knowles, Ashley Gould, Angel Marie Chater
Chapter 29: Pain Psychology - Laura Wandner
Chapter 30: Practitioner-Patient Communication in Healthcare Encounters - Felicity L Bishop
Chapter 31: Adherence to medication and treatment protocols - Robert Horne, Zoe Moon
Chapter 32: Impacts of Hospitalization on Children and Adults - Jillian E. Austin, Michelle M. Ernst, Nadine A. Kasparian

Über Autor(innen)

Hagger, Martin S.
Martin S. Hagger is Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Merced, Professor (Behaviour Change) in the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and Adjunct Professor and Research Consultant in the School of Applied Psychology, Griffith University. His research applies social cognition and motivational theory to predict, understand, and change health behaviours. He has published over 400 articles, chapters, and books, and served as editor of major scholarly peer-reviewed journals.

Cheng, Cecilia
Cecilia Cheng is a Professor of Psychology and Associate Dean at the University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on enhancing mental and physical wellness through the lens of personality and social psychology, cyberpsychology and digital health. Her research team investigates an array of pressing societal issues, including information technology disorders and cyberbullying, analyzing how digital interactions shape psychological well-being and influence broader societal dynamics. Her findings have been translated into public education strategies aimed at fostering resilience and coping mechanisms, as well as promoting healthy internet use, ultimately improving mental health. Professor Cheng’s contributions to the field are further underscored by her significant editorial roles. She has previously served as Associate Editor for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and currently holds the positions of Senior Editor for Social Science and Medicine (Health Psychology Office) and Associate Editor for Health Psychology Review.

Sutton, Stephen R
Stephen Sutton is Professor of Behavioural Science in the Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, and Director of Research and Head of the Behavioural Science Group in the General Practice & Primary Care Research Unit. He is also Visiting Professor of Psychology at the University of Bergen, Norway, and Visiting Professor of Social/Health Psychology at University College London.

He studied social psychology at the London School of Economics and computer science at City University. He received his PhD from the University of London in 1981 for research on the effects of fear appeals. Before moving to Cambridge in 2001, he held posts at the Institute of Psychiatry and University College London. His research programme focuses on the development and evaluation of theory-based behaviour change interventions for smoking cessation, physical activity and medication adherence, using both face-to-face and 'distance' approaches such as electronic monitoring and feedback and tailored text messaging.

Brown, Katherine
Katherine Brown is Professor of Behaviour Change in Health in the Department of Psychology, Sport and Geography, School of Life and Medical Sciences at the University of Hertfordshire. Katherine is Chief Investigator of the NIHR funded and UH led Public Health Interventions Responsive Studies Team (PHIRST). She also leads the Public Health and Behaviour Change research unit (PHAB lab) within the Centre for Research in Psychology and Sports Science (CRiPPS) at UH.
Katherine has a strong track record of leading research in the development and evaluation of behaviour change interventions targeted at preventive health behaviours and addressing major public health challenges. She spent over eight years working in an embedded role at Public Health Warwickshire leading public health research and evaluation. Applications of digital health are a strong feature of her work as is working with communities and end-users on co-production and co-design of interventions. Katherine has attracted grant income in excess of £8 million from a range of funders including the NIHR the MRC and the European Commission. She has produced more than 80 peer reviewed publications and academic reports and has delivered over 40 keynotes and invited speaker presentations.

Hamilton, Kyra
Kyra Hamilton, Ph. D., is Professor in the School of Applied Psychology at Griffith University, Australia, and director of the Health and Psychology Innovations research laboratory (HaPI; 2. She is also Docent, Behaviour Change at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland and affiliate member in the Health Sciences Research Institute at the University of California, Merced, USA. Her areas of expertise and innovation are health behaviour motivation, self-regulation, and change. She is particularly interested in understanding the multiple effects of motivational, volitional, and automatic processes on health behaviour and the translation of research findings into policy and practice. She works closely in partnerships with industry, government organisations, and community groups to design community engaged, contextually tailored, and culturally appropriate behavioural interventions. She serves as Editor-in-Chief of Psychology and Health and is editorial board member of multiple journals. She is a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society and European Health Psychology Society.