The Health Psychology Arena provides researchers, instructors and students in Health Psychology with information on the range of books and journals produced by Psychology Press, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates and Routledge.
Health Psychology examines how biology, behavior, and social context influence health and illness.
Health Psychology News:
Routledge launches Mental Health podcast
Beginning May 2008, we're releasing regular interviews with figures in the world of mental health, asking them about their fields of interest, opinions, and published works.
In our first podcast episode, Jane Harris interviews Denise Cullington, author of Breaking Up Blues, an indispensable, practical self-help book for those going through break-up and divorce.
Denise Cullington is a psychoanalyst living and working in Oxford. She trained at the Institute of Psychoanalysis; the Tavistock Clinic, London; and as a Clinical Psychologist.
You can listen to the interview without subscribing to the podcast by simply going to the Breaking Up Blues mini-site.
If you'd like to subscribe to the podcast and have iTunes or other Podcast software installed then use one of the links below:
Call for Papers: Clinical Psychologist
Clinical Psychologist is the journal of the Australian Psychological Society’s College of
Clinical Psychologists.
The journal covers a range of topics of broad general relevance to psychologists working in clinical and health settings, including assessment and treatment of psychopathology as well as commentary on theoretical, social and cultural issues and applied therapies across the lifespan.
To be reviewed for possible publication in this journal please see the instructions in the PDF file linked to below.
find out more about this call for papers (PDF file)
New Journal: Health Psychology Review
Health Psychology Review is a landmark publication — the first review journal in the important and growing discipline of health psychology.
This new international forum, edited by a highly respected team, will provide a leading environment for review, theory, and conceptual development.
UPDATE: Health Psychology Review has issued a call for papers - please see this PDF flyer
for full detailsFind out more about Health Psychology Review.
New Free Shipping Levels for UK, US and Canadian orders
We've lowered the amount you have to spend to get free shipping for orders in the UK and we've introduced a brand new free shipping threshold for customers in the US and Canada.
From now on, UK customers only need to spend £20 to qualify for free shipping (reduced from our previous post-free threshold of £30).
And US and Canadian customers can now also get free shipping on their orders by spending $35 (USD) or more.
Please note: these free shipping thresholds only apply to online orders placed through this website using our standard shipping service, not our express shipping service or for orders placed by other methods.
Consumer Culture, Identity and Well-Being
The Search for the 'Good Life' and the 'Body Perfect'
Advertising, materialism and consumption are central aspects of contemporary Western culture.
Consumer Culture, Identity, and Well-Being documents the negative psychological impact consumer culture can have on how individuals view themselves and on their emotional welfare.
It looks at the social psychological dimensions of having, buying and wanting material goods, as well as the pursuit of media-hyped appearance ideals...
find out more about Consumer Culture, Identity and Well-Being / order online
Sign Up For Special Book Offers
We've just launched our new online shopping system which is much faster, and boasts new features including exclusive online discounts for our email alerts subscribers.
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New Health Psychology Arena
Welcome to our new Health Psychology arena - we hope you the find new features and improvements exciting and useful.
We hope you find this arena very easy to navigate around, because we know that you want to find the information you're after quickly, whether it's the 'buy now' link for a particular book, the date & venue of a forthcoming conference, or the online version of a specific academic journal article.
We've added a number of new features to address your changing demands and requirements.
We hope we've made this arena invaluable for you, and we'd encourage you to add this site to your favourites, post it to del.icio.us (if you're a del.icio.us user), blog about it (then let us know), or recommend it to your friends and colleagues.
Here's a very brief overview of some of the new features:
RSS Feeds of latest titles
We've created an RSS Feed of our newest Health Psychology books so that you can subscribe to receive news of our latest titles. RSS feeds are an increasingly popular way to check for news and updates from all the websites you regularly visit without having to visit them all individually.
We've created a page to explain more about RSS, which will also help you to subscribe using a wide range of freely available RSS Feed Readers.
You can also use our RSS feed to display an automatically-updated list of our latest Health Psychology titles on your blog or website (let us know if you do this because we'd be interested to see).
Conferences
We've launched our Health Psychology listings with an interactive map (see screenshot, right), allowing you to see, at a glance, all of the events that are coming up near you.
You can zoom in for a closer look (close enough, in some cases, to get street directions!) and click on the map markers for conference details and a link to the conference's home page.
Health Psychology-related Blog Posts, Country-specific book listings, and more
There's a wealth of other new features, including the latest Blog Posts from around the world which have been tagged as being about Health Psychology, and we've also made sure that all the books you see are available in your country by automatically identifying which country you're in (on the rare occasions when we might get it wrong you can manually override it on the User Preferences page).
We're very excited about the changes we've made to this arena, and as we mentioned earlier, we'll be updating all of our arenas over the coming months. But we don't want to rest on our laurels, so we'll be looking for new ways to improve the arenas and new features to offer you.
If you have any suggestions or comments then please don't hesitate to let us know.
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