Narrative Approaches and Practice in Health Psychology
A special issue of Behavioral Sciences (ISSN 2076-328X). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Psychology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 November 2024 | Viewed by 1010
Special Issue Editor
Interests: psychosocial adaptation; hope; mental well-being; narrative; storytelling; behavioural interventions; chronic illness; pain; qualitative research
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is a pure delight to develop this Special Issue about narrative approaches and practices in health psychology. Narrative research often refers to a written or spoken account of events and contains specific elements as a story would. This can include characters and plots, but also a focus on language and meaning, for instance metaphor or discourse analysis. Narrative research provides an excellent way to explore personal experiences beyond the boundaries of other methodologies; it can provide fascinating insights to treatment, health practices, attitudes and behaviors. For instance, narrative and storytelling interventions have recently demonstrated great psycho-emotional value for people with chronic illness as part of behavior change approaches.
Narrative research is growing fast, and it is important that health psychology is able to capture this. This Special Issue is interested in receiving articles from scholars that focus and illuminate specific narrative approaches and methodologies. I welcome examples of specific approaches to narrative analysis and articles that review and consider specific narrative methodologies. This Special Issue is also focused on documenting current practice and how narrative is used within different health-related settings, including detailed narrative studies that examine a range of studies, from the exploration of topics related to health psychology to interventions that seek to improve health outcomes.
Dr. Andrew Soundy
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Behavioral Sciences is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2200 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- narrative
- methodology
- psychology
- stories
- qualitative
- corpus
- metaphor
