Health Psychology
A section of Behavioral Sciences (ISSN 2076-328X).
Section Information
Health Psychology is a landmark Section of the Behavioral Sciences journal and a prime Section of the expanding discipline that is health psychology. This Section is supported by a well-respected team of scholars. It provides a unique area with an aim to advance all aspects of psychology that directly relate to illness, health and behavior.
Researchers will be encouraged to utilize a range of methodologies and approaches that are able to challenge current thinking. The range can include traditional experimental research through to ethnographic-based research. We will actively encourage novel methodologies using various paradigmatic positions taken to view the world. We require that all experimental-based research provides a registration number with a trial registry website and would generally expect reviews to have protocols. We will accept protocols.
The following areas will be a focus, including how chronic illnesses are experienced by individuals and managed, the response of people to health-related interventions, the identification of screening and assessment of illness and ill health, the psychometric properties of tools that consider health, behavior change interventions that influence psychological health outcomes, the understanding of psycho-emotional responses to pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment approaches, and the correlates and mediators that influence health-related quality of life and the prevention of ill health.
Studies published in this journal will require full ethical approval from an institutional-based ethics board.
Editorial Board
Topical Advisory Panel
Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Roleplaying Games and Wellbeing (Deadline: 30 May 2026)
- Second Edition: Perspectives on Violence and Sexual Harassment (Deadline: 31 May 2026)
- Understanding Mental Health and Well-Being in University Students (Deadline: 31 May 2026)
- The Impact of Psychosocial Factors on Health Behaviors (Deadline: 31 May 2026)
- Parent-Child Relations and Children's Emotional Development: Enhancing Intervention Effectiveness (Deadline: 31 May 2026)
- Digital Interventions and Research for Health and Psychological Well-Being (Deadline: 15 June 2026)
- Embracing Aging in Place: Fostering Healthy Cognitive Aging in the Community (Deadline: 30 June 2026)
- Promoting Health Behaviors in the New Media Era (Deadline: 30 June 2026)
- Psychological Stress, Well-Being, and Performance in Sport (Deadline: 10 July 2026)
- Digital Technologies, Mental Health and Well-Being (Deadline: 16 July 2026)
- Mental Health in Adolescent (Deadline: 16 July 2026)
- From Insight to Action: Psychological Foundations and Behavioral Interventions for Change (Deadline: 20 July 2026)
- Narrative Approaches and Practice in Health Psychology (Deadline: 31 July 2026)
- The Psychology Perspective on Emerging Media (Deadline: 31 July 2026)
- Subjective Well-Being in Sport Participants and Spectators (Deadline: 31 July 2026)
- Psychology of Health Behavior Change (Deadline: 31 July 2026)
- Diet, Lifestyle and Neurobehaviors (Deadline: 1 August 2026)
- Interoception and Emotion Regulation (Deadline: 18 August 2026)
- Promoting Women’s Mental Health (Deadline: 25 August 2026)
- Early Intervention, Transdiagnostic and Personalized Approach in Youth Mental Health (Deadline: 18 September 2026)
- Psychological Mechanisms of Health Behavior in Contemporary Contexts (Deadline: 30 September 2026)
- The Role of Art Therapy in the Promotion of Mental, Physical Health, and Well-Being (Deadline: 30 September 2026)
- People’s Attitudes and Opinions Towards AI in Mental Health Care (Deadline: 15 October 2026)
- Suicide Behaviors and Prevention Among Vulnerable Populations (Deadline: 10 November 2026)
- Digital Mental Health Interventions: Advances in Research and Clinical Practice (Deadline: 23 November 2026)
- Eating Disorders: Neural Mechanisms, Psychological Factors, and Interventions (Deadline: 24 November 2026)
- Daily Health and Well-Being in Young Adults (Deadline: 30 November 2026)
- Motor Competence, Physical Fitness, and Academic Achievement in Students (Deadline: 30 November 2026)
- Substance and Alcohol Use in the Perinatal Period (Deadline: 30 November 2026)
- The Impact of Sport and Physical Activity on the Mental Health of Adolescents and Children—2nd Edition (Deadline: 5 December 2026)
- Process-Based Approaches in Chronic Diseases and Family Caregivers (Deadline: 15 December 2026)
- Poetry as Healing: Exploring and Promoting Its Therapeutic Role in Mental Health (Deadline: 15 December 2026)
- Digital Health and Well-Being: Navigating Risks and Building Resilience (Deadline: 31 December 2026)
- Sexual Health and Well-Being in Diverse Populations (Deadline: 15 January 2027)
- Emotional Support in Chronic Disease: From Psychological Assessment to Intervention (Deadline: 31 January 2027)
- Increasing Equitable Access to Efficacious Mental Health Care (Deadline: 23 February 2027)
- Psychosocial Care and Support in Dementia—Second Edition (Deadline: 28 February 2027)
- Stress and Children’s, Adolescents' and Young Adults’ Ways to Cope with It—Second Edition (Deadline: 14 April 2027)
