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, illness and psychological factors
• Psychological interventions for chronic illness
• Psychotherapy and health promotion interventions
• Mental health promotion and illness prevention
• Pain management
• Rehabilitation psychology
• Stress and depression management
• Applied behavior analysis for health
• Health psychology and behavior change
• Healthy behaviors and mental health
• Cognitive health promotion
• Mental health awareness
• Mental health and public health
• Health psychology and quality of life
• Health care strategies and emotional well-being
• 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