Special Issue on Health Psychology and Health Promotion

Health psychology is a specialty area that focuses on how biology, psychology, behavior, and social factors influence health and illness. Other terms including medical psychology and behavioral medicine are sometimes used interchangeably with the term health psychology. It’s involved in health, illness, and health care, and essential and important for health promotion and disease prevention.

In this special issue, we intend to invite front-line researchers and authors to submit original research and review articles on Health Psychology and Health Promotion. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Health behaviors and mental health
• Disease prevention and health promotion
• Mental disorders
• Psychotherapy
• Health promotion interventions
• Rehabilitation psychology
• Stress and depression management
• Applied behavior analysis for health
• Healthy behaviors and mental health
• Psychosocial determinants of health
• Psychosocial factors and public health
• Models in health psychology
• Mental health assessment
• Cognitive health promotion
• Mental health awareness
• Health psychology and quality of life
• Healthcare and emotional well-being
• Chronic illness and mental health
• Psychological treatment for pain
• Clinical psychology and mental health
• Health psychology in the time of COVID-19

Authors should read over the journal’s For Authors carefully before submission. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal’s Paper Submission System.

Please kindly notice that the “Special Issue” under your manuscript title is supposed to be specified and the research field “Special Issue – Health Psychology and Health Promotion” should be chosen during your submission.

According to the following timetable:

For publishing inquiries, please feel free to contact the Editorial Assistant at submission.entrance1@scirp.org

PSYCH Editorial Office

psych@scirp.org