Tracks
Submissions
Conference 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 or societal 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 change, sustainability, and environmental context
Research on climate change, sustainability, and environmental influences on health and well-being, including climate adaptation and mitigation, sustainable health behaviours, active mobility, the natural and built environment, environmental exposures, planetary health, and the role of psychological factors in promoting sustainable and healthy societies.
Health Psychology and Health Systems
5. Public Health, Health Promotion and Health Policy
Public health, health promotion, and health 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 & 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
Research on artificial intelligence and digital technologies, including eHealth and mHealth interventions, social media use and its effects on health and well-being, digital behaviour change interventions, digital phenotyping, passive sensing, and the use of digital tools and technologies for assessment, research, and healthcare delivery.
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 influences, support, caregiving, and health outcomes
The impact of social influences, 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 prediction of health behaviour, and research on health behaviours.
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 chronic disease or high-risk groups (e.g., hypertension, obesity), focused on quality of life and/or health behaviour.
17. Stress, physiology and health
The influence of psychosocial demands and resources on biological systems (including psychoneuroimmunology, endocrinology, cardiovascular 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 and Metascience
Methodological issues in health psychology – techniques, analyses, and critiques, including research on recruitment, informed consent and retention as well as meta-scientific research on research practices, transparency, reproducibility, open science, and research quality.
Professional Practice
19. Health Psychology Education and Professional Practice
Research on health psychology education, training, and professional practice, including curriculum development, innovative teaching approaches, competency development, student learning, workforce development, health systems, professional roles, and the implementation and application of health psychology in practice settings.
Spotlight ECR
20. Spotlight ECR
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.
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No Poverty
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Zero Hunger
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Good Health and Well-being
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Quality Education
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Gender Equality
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Affordable and Clean Energy
Goal 8
Decent Work and Economic Growth
Goal 9
Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
Goal 10
Reduced Inequality
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Sustainable Cities and Communities
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Responsible Consumption and Production
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Climate Action
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Life Below Water
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Life on Land
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Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
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Partnerships for the Goals