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The Journal of Health Psychology is an interdisciplinary, international journal edited by David Marks , Professor of Psychology at City University , London , UK


AIMS AND SCOPE

Recent years have seen a dramatic international growth of research, debate and teaching in health psychology, with scholars throughout the social sciences, medicine and health care professions hailing the power and significance of psychological approaches to health and illness. The Journal of Health Psychology represents a culmination of these developments and will support and help shape this emerging discipline as it enters the 21st century.


PROVIDING A FORUM FOR INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP


The journal brings together some of the most respected scholars and researchers in the world to produce a major forum for the best research and debate in health psychology. The Journal of Health Psychology occupies a central role in the field by ensuring a commitment to quality and a breadth of outlook that:

  • Acknowledges the interdisciplinary nature of health issues, drawing on contributions from social and cross-cultural psychology, clinical psychology, sociology, anthropology, medicine, public health, epidemiology, health communication and related fields

  • Encourages the development of sound theoretical analysis in health psychology

  • Contains research that comes out of the best empirical traditions of rigorous psychological methodology while providing a platform for new perspectives of a more qualitative or critical orientation

  • Provides an international forum for the best of health psychology from around the world

  • Reflects the social significance of health psychology by addressing the social, political and economic contexts in which psychological and health processes are embedded.



EDITORIAL BOARD


Editor
David F Marks, City University, London, UK

Associate Editors
Robert M Kaplan, University of California, San Diego, USA;
Chris McManus, University College London, UK;
Kenneth A Wallston, Vanderbilt University, USA;
Helen Winefield, University of Adelaide, Australia;
Carla Willig, City University, London, UK

Reviews Editor
Michael Murray , Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

Editorial Board
Nancy E Adler, University of California, San Francisco, USA;
Suzanne Bennett Johnson, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA;
Peter M. Bentler, University of California, Los Angeles, USA;
John W Berry, Queens University, Ontario, Canada;
Glynis M Breakwell, University of Surrey, UK;
Catherine Campbell, London School of Economics, London, UK;
Kerry Chamberlain, Massey University, New Zealand;
G Davey-Smith, University of Bristol, UK;
Carlo C DiClemente, University of Houston, USA;
Frank J S Donker, Eindhoven, The Netherlands;
J Richard Eiser, University of Sheffield, UK;
Uwe Flick, Alice-Salomon University of Applied Sciences, Berlin;
Stevan E Hobfoll, Kent State University, Ohio, USA;
Gary L Kreps, George Mason University;
Hope Landrine, Public Health Foundation, USA;
Howard Leventhal, Institute of Health, New Brunswick, USA;
Antonia C. Lyons, Massey University, New Zealand;
Jane Ogden, University of Surrey, UK;
James W Pennebaker, University of Texas, Austin, USA;
James O Prochaska, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, USA;
Jesus Rodriguez-Marin, Miguel Hernandez University, Alicante, Spain;
Rudolph Schoberberger, University of Vienna, Austria;
Mark R. Somerfield, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA;
Mary-Jane Paris Spink, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil;
Wendy Stainton-Rogers, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK;
Penny Standen, University Hospital, Nottingham, UK;
Stephen Sutton, University of Cambridge, UK;
Catherine Marie Sykes, City University London, UK;
Carl E Thoresen, Stanford University, USA;
Ladislav Valach, Psychiatric University, Polytechnic Clinic, Bern, Switzerland;
Jan Vinck, Limburg University Centre, Diepenbeek, Belgium;
Stephen M Weiss, University of Miami, USA;
Richard A Winett, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, USA;

Editorial Assistant
Emee Vida Estacio, City University London, UK


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