Health Psychology: An Introduction to Behavior and Health

Health Psychology (Shelley Taylor)

Changing to Thrive

Virtual Psychology Museum | University of Wisconsin Green Bay

Cognitive function after electroconvulsive therapy for depression: relationship to clinical response

School mental health promotion and intervention: Experiences from four nations

Gender, stress, and health.

Media Exposure to Collective Trauma, Mental Health, and Functioning: Does It Matter What You See?

Advancing health equity for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people through sexual health education and LGBT-affirming health care environments

Ecological grief as a mental health response to climate change-related loss

Reducing the Treatment Gap for LGBT Mental Health Needs: the Potential of Telepsychiatry.

Mental Health Promotion in Public Health: Perspectives and Strategies From Positive Psychology

Discrimination at the Margins: The Intersectionality of Homelessness & Other Marginalized Groups

National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health 2019

Sexual Orientation and Estimates of Adult Substance Use and Mental Health: Results from the 2015 National Survey on Drug Use and Health

Surveillance studies involving HIV testing are needed: Will at-risk youth participate?

Cognitive-behavioral therapies for depression and substance use disorders: An overview of traditional, third-wave, and transdiagnostic approaches

Stress management in the workplace: A comparison of a computer-based and an in-person stress-management intervention

Health Psychology Interventions

Assessing the Efficacy of Mobile Health Apps Using the Basic Principles of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Systematic Review

A randomized controlled trial of cognitive behavioral therapy for ADHD in medication-treated adolescents

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Health Behavior Change: A Contextually-Driven Approach

Cognitive and behavioral therapies in the treatment of insomnia: A meta-analysis

Long-Term Deep Brain Stimulation in Treatment-Resistant Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Outcome and Quality of Life at Four to Eight Years Follow-Up

Health and healthcare disparities among U.S. women and men at the intersection of sexual orientation and race/ethnicity: a nationally representative cross-sectional study

Peer victimization and suicidal ideation: The role of gender and depression in a school-based sample

Telehealth for underserved families: An evidence-based parenting program

Effectiveness of the Triple P Positive Parenting Program on Parenting: A Meta-Analysis

A cross sectional study evaluating psychosocial job stress and health risk in emergency department nurses

Health Psychology Wikipedia References

Studying Health Psychology and Illness

APA Dictionary of Psychology

‘I am Dying a Slow Death of White Guilt’: Spiritual Carers in a South African Hospice Navigate Issues of Race and Cultural Diversity

Health and media: an overview

Patient-Physician Relationships

A meta-analysis of self-determination theory-informed intervention studies in the health domain: effects on motivation, health behavior, physical, and psychological health

Protect me from my selfie: Examining the association between photo-based social media behaviors and self-reported eating disorders in adolescence

Self-Efficacy and Motivation to Quit During Participation in a Smoking Cessation Program

"Third-wave” cognitive and behavioral therapies and the emergence of a process-based approach to intervention in psychiatry

Studying Health Psychology and Illness

Impact of the Doctor-Patient Relationship

Exploring black students’ mental health characteristics by field of academic study utilizing a critical race lens

Investigating the Efficacy of Virtual Experiences on Stress Reduction

Cognitive–Behavioral Therapy, Behavioral Weight Loss, and Sequential Treatment for Obese Patients With Binge-Eating Disorder: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Adolescents' attitudes towards healthy eating: The role of self-control, motives, and self-risk perception

Virtual reality expands the toolkit for conducting health psychology research

Psychological distress and psychiatric disorder after natural disasters: systematic review and meta-analysis

Advances in immersive virtual reality interventions for mental disorders: A new reality?

Tobacco smoking, related harm and motivation to quit smoking in people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders

Mindfulness in Schools: a Health Promotion Approach to Improving Adolescent Mental Health

Psychological intervention at a primary health care center: predictors of success

Dissociative disorders: Mayo Clinic

Investigating the prevalence of dissociative disorders and severe dissociative symptoms in first episode psychosis

Chronic Grief: Experiences of working parents of children with chronic illness

The experience of chronic illness and post-traumatic stress disorder: the consequences of cumulative adversity

Dobbie, M., & Mellor, D. (2008). Chronic illness and its impact: Considerations for psychologists. Psychology, Health & Medicine, 13(5), 583–590.

#Sleepyteens: Social media use in adolescence is associated with poor sleep quality, anxiety, depression and low self-esteem

Does co-morbid depressive illness magnify the impact of chronic physical illness? A population-based perspective

Mitigating medical student stress and anxiety: Should schools mandate participation in wellness intervention programs?

Chronic illness in the context of marriage: A systems perspective of stress and coping in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Cultural identity and public health.

Depression: The nutrition connection

Ecological Grief as a Response to Environmental Change A Mental Health Risk or Functional Response

How does anxiety sensitivity increase risk of chronic conditions?

APA Mental Health Services Definition

Perceived Need for Mental Health Care: The Intersection of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Socioeconomic Status

Role of patient treatment beliefs and provider characteristics in establishing patient–provider relationships

Computer-Mediated Communication, Social Media, and Mental Health: A Conceptual and Empirical Meta-Review

Moderation of the Association Between Individual Food Security and Poor Mental Health by the Local Food Environment Among Adult Residents of Flint, Michigan

Depression and political predispositions: Almost blue?

Assessing the Integrity of Motivational Interviewing Interventions: Reliability of the Motivational Interviewing Skills Code

Perceived Stress as Mediator for Longitudinal Effects of the COVID-19 Lockdown on Wellbeing of Parents and Children

Providing prenatal care to pregnant women with overweight or obesity: Differences in provider communication and ratings of the patient-provider relationship by patient body weight

Social Media Use and Its Associations With Mental Health 9 Months After the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Cross-National Study

Psychology and Aging: Psychologists Make a Significant Contribution

Emergency department visits for depression following police killings of unarmed African Americans

The acceptability and feasibility of group cognitive behavioural therapy for older adults with generalised anxiety disorder

Longitudinal Association Between Physical Activity and Frailty Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults

LGBTQIA people of color: Utilizing the cultural psychology model as a guide for the mental health assessment and treatment of patients with diverse identities

Masculinity, emotion regulation, and psychopathology: A critical review and integrated model

Association of Childhood Lead Exposure With Adult Personality Traits and Lifelong Mental Health

Health consequences of laws and public policies that target, or protect, marginalized populations

Investigating Binge-Watching Adverse Mental Health Outcomes During Covid-19 Pandemic: Moderating Role of Screen Time for Web Series Using Online Streaming

Emotion Regulation, Subjective Well-Being, and Perceived Stress in Daily Life of Geriatric Nurses

Highly processed food intake and immediate and future emotions in everyday life

The prevalence of psychological distress in Parkinson's disease patients: The brief symptom inventory (BSI-18) versus the Hopkins symptom checklist (SCL-90-R)

A cross-cultural perspective on feeling good in the context of foods and beverages

Students’ Attitudes and Intention to Work with Older Adults in the Era of Covid-19.

The impact of post‐migration stressors on refugees’ emotional distress and health: A longitudinal analysis

Cookie or clementine? Psychophysiological stress reactivity and recovery after eating healthy and unhealthy comfort foods.

Poverty and Mental Health: How Do Low-Income Adults and Children Fare in Psychotherapy?

Poverty, Social Inequity, and Depression

A Latent Profile Analysis of the COVID-19 Stressors Scale

Maternal and pediatric health and disease: integrating biopsychosocial models and epigenetics

Epigenetics: The Science of Change

Finding Benefit in Breast Cancer During the Year After Diagnosis Predicts Better Adjustment 5 to 8 Years After Diagnosis.

Doomscrolling during COVID-19: The negative association between daily social and traditional media consumption and mental health symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic

Immigrant and U.S.-Born Migrant Farmworkers: Dual Paths to Discrimination-Related Health Outcomes

Close Relationship Processes and Health: Implications of Attachment Theory for Health and Disease

Identifying aspects of neighbourhood deprivation associated with increased incidence of schizophrenia

Parental attachment insecurity predicts child and adult high-caloric food consumption

A Comparison of Athletes' Perceptions of the Coach-Athlete Relationship in Team and Individual Sports

Differences in the attitudes to sport psychology consulting between individual and team sport athletes

The Knowledge Map of Sport and Exercise Psychology: An Integrative Perspective

Investigating the “Flow” Experience: Key Conceptual and Operational Issues

Intergenerational Online Health Information Searching and Brokering: Framing Health Literacy as a Family Asset

Health Promotion

Perceived hunger mediates the relationship between attachment anxiety and emotional eating

Positive Psychology in Sports: An Overview

Relationships between Flow, Self-Concept, Psychological Skills, and Performance

Affective well-being of Chinese urban postpartum women: predictive effect of spousal support and maternal role adaptation

Positive psychology: A workbook for personal growth and well-being

Psychoneuroimmunology in the time of COVID-19: Why neuro-immune interactions matter for mental and physical health

Psychological States Underlying Excellent Performance in Sport: Toward an Integrated Model of Flow and Clutch States

Familism and psychological health: The intervening role of closeness and social support

The role of Information and Communication Technologies in healthcare: taxonomies, perspectives, and challenges

What are health disparities and health equity? We need to be clear

Barriers to healthcare access facing American Indian and Alaska Natives in rural America

Examining the “Why” of Vaccine Hesitancy

A Federal Indian Health Insurance Plan: Fulfilling a solemn obligation to American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States

Factor structure and clinical correlates of the original and 16‐item version of the Difficulties In Emotion Regulation Scale in Adolescent Girls with Eating Disorders

Anti-Vaxxer definition

Understanding Psychological Reactance

Investigating the Effect of two Methods of Dialectic Behavioral therapies and Metacognitive therapy on the Body Mass Index and Emotional Eating Behavior in Patients with type 2 Diabetes

Kindness interventions for early-stage breast cancer survivors: An online, pilot randomized controlled trial.

Happy to help? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects of performing acts of kindness on the well-being of the actor.

Exploring families’ experiences of health: Contributions to a model of family health

The relationship between family communication patterns and mental health

Mycotherapy: Potential of Fungal Bioactives for the Treatment of Mental Health Disorders and Morbidities of Chronic Pain

Psychometric Properties of the Pregnancy-Related Anxiety Scale—Screener

The psychological impact of a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease

Mental health is the health of the whole body: How psychoneuroimmunology & health psychology can inform & improve treatment.

Psychoneuroimmunology and health psychology: An integrative model.

Six Mental Health benefits of exercise in teens.

Exercise and the Brain: The Mental Health Benefits of Exercise

The Syndemic Illness of HIV and Trauma: Implications for a Trauma-Informed Model of Care

Trauma-Informed Care definition

Adverse childhood experiences, mental health, and relationship satisfaction in military couples

Professionally Moderated, Psychoeducational, Web-Based Support for Women Living with HIV: An Exploratory Study

LinkPositively: A Trauma-Informed Peer Navigation and Social Networking WebApp to Improve HIV Care among Black Women Affected by Interpersonal Violence

The Impact of Prolonged Exposure on PTSD Symptoms and Associated Psychopathology in People Living with HIV: A Randomized Test of Concept

Influence of childhood family routines on adult depression: A cross sectional study

Mind-body interventions to reduce risk for health disparities related to stress and strength among African American women: The potential of mindfulness-based stress reduction, loving-kindness, and the NTU

Striving Towards Empowerment and Medication Adherence (STEP-AD): A Tailored Cognitive Behavioral Treatment Approach for Black Women Living With HIV

An Evidence-Based Group Coping Intervention for Women Living with HIV and History of Childhood Sexual Abuse

How do social norms influence parents’ food choices for their children? The role of social comparison and implicit self-theories

Emotions and emotion regulation in breast cancer survivorship.

Why Don’t Indians Seek Certified Doctors

Why Do Indians Hate Visiting Doctors?

US Mexican-origin young adults’ mental health relative to interpersonal stressor transitions from childhood to adolescence

Early-Life Stressors, Personality Development, and Fast Life Strategies: An Evolutionary Perspective on Malevolent Personality Features

The role of shame and shame coping strategies on internalizing/externalizing symptoms: Differences across gender in adolescents

Reproductive Strategy and Sexual Conflict Slow Life History Strategy Inhibits Negative Androcentrism

Schrooms against booze: Potential of mycotherapy for the treatment of AUD

An exploration of the hypothesis that testosterone is implicated in the psychological functioning of women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).

Health of Non-binary and Genderqueer People: A Systematic Review

Alcohol screening scores and the risk of intensive care unit admission and hospital readmission

Family dynamics in sleep health and hypertension

An Overview and Therapeutic Promise of Nutraceuticals Against Sports-Related Brain Injury

Sex differences in methamphetamine use disorder perused from pre-clinical and clinical studies: Potential therapeutic impacts

"Less Than A Wife": A Study of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Content in Teen and Women's Digital Magazines

Health disparities between binary and non binary trans people: A community-driven survey

SKIN-TO-SKIN CONTACT

The importance of skin-to-skin with baby after delivery

Mother–Infant Skin-to-Skin Contact: Short‐ and Long-Term Effects for Mothers and Their Children Born Full-Term

Network analyses of Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) symptoms in children.

Cognitive behavioral program on aggression and self-concept among institutionalized children with conduct disorder

Evacuation- and Hurricane-Related Experiences, Emotional Distress, and Their Associations With Mothers’ Health Risk Behaviors

American Football Position-Specific Neurometabolic Changes in High School Athletes: A Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Study

Dependence on subconcussive impacts of brain metabolism in collision sport athletes: an MR spectroscopic study

Midlife Crisis: Signs, Causes, and Coping Tips

Anticipated suicide stigma, secrecy, and suicidality among suicide attempt survivors

Seasonal patterns in mindfulness in people with seasonal affective disorder (SAD)

Winter is coming: Wintertime mindset and wellbeing in Norway

Breaking the Stigma about Suicide

Prenatal exposure to a natural disaster and early development of psychiatric disorders during the preschool years: stress in pregnancy study

Psychological Considerations in Pediatric Chronic Illness: Case Examples

Identifying and Treating Maladaptive Behavior

Sunshine, Serotonin, and Skin: A Partial Explanation for Seasonal Patterns in Psychopathology?

What is REM Sleep and How Much Do You Need?

ER Visits For Kids With Suicidal Thoughts Increasing: Study

Implementation of a pediatric/adolescent suicide risk screening tool for patients presenting to the Emergency Department with nonbehavioral health complaints

Evaluation of current post-concussion protocols

Craving among individuals with stimulant use disorder in residential social model-based treatment – Can exercise help?

An Algorithm Approach to Determining Smoking Cessation Treatment for Persons Living With HIV/AIDS: Results of a Pilot Trial

The influence of trauma, locus of control, and health-related quality of life on a child's self-worth

The effects of psychological trauma on children and adolescents

Exercise is Medicine for Concussion

Disparities in alcohol use and heavy episodic drinking among bisexual people: A systematic review, meta-analysis, and meta-regression

Health Policy: The Policy Process

Family Dysfunction and Suicide Risk in a Community Corrections Sample

Self-harm and suicide

People who self-injure describe behaviors as addictive

How individuals who self-harm manage their own risk—‘I cope because I self-harm, and I can cope with my self-harm’

Obsessive-compulsive symptoms in sexual minorities

Psycho-Spiritual Integrative Therapy: Psychological Intervention for Women With Breast Cancer

The Effect of Aerobic Exercise on Concussion Recovery: A Pilot Clinical Trial

Personality Traits, Cognitive States, and Mortality in Older Adulthood

Association between cognitive impairment and apolipoprotein A1 or apolipoprotein B levels is regulated by apolipoprotein E variant rs429358 in patients with chronic schizophrenia

Health Anxiety in Children: Development and Psychometric Properties of the Childhood Illness Attitude Scales

The relationship between childhood health anxiety, parent health anxiety, and associated constructs

Intolerance of uncertainty, anxiety sensitivity, health anxiety, and anxiety disorder symptoms in youth

Parental-Reported Health Anxiety Symptoms in 5- to 7-Year- Old Children: The Copenhagen Child Cohort CCC 2000

Health anxiety and hypochondriasis in the light of DSM-5

Practitioner review: health anxiety in children and young people in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

Providing lifestyle advice to women with PCOS: An overview of practical issues affecting success

A brief introduction to the COM-B model of behaviour and the PRIME theory of motivation

Long‐term physical health outcomes of obsessive‐compulsive personality disorder traits

Factors associated with rapid failure in a Treatment Alternatives for Safer Communities (TASC) program

Get the massage!

Massage Therapy for Psychiatric Disorders.

Can massage relieve symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress?

Untangling the tingle: Investigating the association between the Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR), neuroticism, and trait & state anxiety

The effects of autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) on mood, attention, heart rate, skin conductance and EEG in healthy young adults

ASMR, affect and digitally-mediated intimacy.

An examination of personality traits associated with Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR)

Functional connectivity associated with five different categories of Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) triggers

Development, Feasibility, Acceptability, and Utility of an Expressive Speech-Enabled Digital Health Agent to Deliver Online, Brief Motivational Interviewing for Alcohol Misuse: Descriptive Study

Autonomous sensory meridian response: Individual differences and consciousness correlates

Functional connectivity associated with five different categories of Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) triggers

Effects of Parental Chronic Illness on Children’s Psychosocial and Educational Functioning: a Literature Review

Effects of a Patient-Centered Intervention to Reduce Alcohol Use Among Youth With Chronic Medical Conditions

The Psychological Response To Injury In Student Athletes: A Narrative Review With a Focus On Mental Health

The Application of Transcranial Electrical Stimulation in Sports Psychology

Meta-Analysis: Caregiver and Youth Uncertainty in Pediatric Chronic Illness

The science of early life toxic stress for pediatric practice and advocacy

Toxic stress: effects, prevention and treatment

The dorsal attentional system in oculomotor learning of predictive information.

Transliminality

What is Body-Conscious

Cbt + exercise vs treatment as usual in treating anxiety and depression in university students: A pilot study

Hyperesthesia Reference

Associations of parents' self, child, and other “fat talk” with child eating behaviors and weight

The relation between parental influence, body image, and eating behaviors in a nonclinical female sample

Diagnosis and management of developmental coordination disorder

Motor Disorders

Choreiform Movements

Mirror Movements

Relationships between disease factors and social support in college students with chronic physical illnesses

Body Image Concern and Eating Disorder Symptoms Among Elite Icelandic Athletes

Autonomous sensory meridian response: Sensitivity and personality correlates

Sensory Processing Sensitivity Questionnaire: A Psychometric Evaluation and Associations with Experiencing the COVID-19 Pandemic

Autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) and frisson: Mindfully induced sensory phenomena that promote happiness

Interoceptive Technologies: Inducing emotions from the body up

Food Insecurity, Associated Health Behaviors, and Academic Performance Among Urban University Undergraduate Students

Autonomous sensory meridian response: Scale development and personality correlates

Determinants of sleep quality in women with systemic lupus erythematosus

Sleep quality, clinical and psychological manifestations in women with systemic lupus erythematosus

Careful whispers: When sounds feel like a touch

Dark, loud, and compact sounds induce frisson

Human disease | Definition & Facts | Britannica

Sex differences in injury rates in team-sport athletes: A systematic review and meta-regression analysis

Traumatic Injury

Food Insecurity, Hunger, Stress, and Homelessness Among Young Adults

“No pain, no gain”: The impact of autonomous sensory meridian response on pain perception

A Guide for Analysing Electrodermal Activity (EDA) & Skin Conductance Responses (SCRs) for Psychological Experiments

The effects of autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) on mood, attention, heart rate, skin conductance and EEG in healthy young adults

EEG (electroencephalogram)

Neurofeedback: A comprehensive review on system design, methodology and clinical applications

Limbic System Reference

Trauma‐informed mindfulness‐based stress reduction for female survivors of interpersonal violence: Results from a stage I RCT

Trauma-informed mindfulness-based stress reduction: A promising new model for working with survivors of interpersonal violence

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction as a Stress Management Intervention for Healthy Individuals: A Systematic Review

Genetic Markers Associated with Power Athlete Status (Reference)

Definitions

hertz

electric potential

cortical potential

Food insecurity and eating disorder pathology

Factors associated with alcohol use disorder: the role of depression, anxiety, stress, alexithymia and work fatigue- a population study in Lebanon.

Social media use and its impact on adolescent mental health: An umbrella review of the evidence.

Developmental consequences of prenatal substance use in children and adolescents

Prenatal Substance Exposure: Effects on Attention and Impulsivity of 6-Year-Olds

Prenatal and concurrent cocaine, alcohol, marijuana, and tobacco effects on adolescent cognition and attention

The impact of social media use on appearance self-esteem from childhood to adolescence – A 3-wave community study.

Adult friendship and wellbeing: A systematic review with practical implications

Nutritional medicine as mainstream in psychiatry

Healthy Careers: An Occupational Health Psychology Perspective

Participatory Intervention for Workplace Improvements on Mental Health and Job Performance Among Blue-Collar Workers: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

Rage vs Anger

Brief Humanistic and Existential Therapies

Fear of Cancer Recurrence Therapy (FORT): A Randomized Controlled Trial

Relationship between Emotional Eating, Consumption of Hyperpalatable Energy-Dense Foods, and Indicators of Nutritional Status: A Systematic Review

Nutritional psychiatry: Your brain on food

The ADHD Walk: Your Gait-way to Balance

Postural sway and regional cerebellar volume in adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

The Disordered Mind: Chapter 5

Cortical Odor Processing in Health and Disease

How leisure activities affect health: a narrative review and multi-level theoretical framework of mechanisms of action (Fancourt et al., 2021)

The Disordered Mind: Chapter 6

Neural Substrates of Spontaneous Musical Performance: An fMRI Study of Jazz Improvisation

Creativity in the Predominantly Inattentive and Combined Presentations of ADHD in Adults

Synapses and Memory Storage

Motor Vehicle Crash Risk in Older Adult Drivers With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

A Review of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Women and Girls: Uncovering This Hidden Diagnosis

CDC Data and Statistics About ADHD

BMI a poor metric for measuring people's health, say experts

Assessing health-related resources in senior living residences

Can psychosocial intervention suppress testosterone and triglycerides among women with polycystic ovary syndrome? A feasibility trial.

Psychology of aesthetics: Beauty, social media, and body dysmorphic disorder

Iannucci & Nierenberg (2022)

Exploring changes in body image, eating and exercise during the COVID-19 lockdown: A UK survey

Mycotherapy of cancer: an update on cytotoxic and antitumor activities of mushrooms, bioactive principles and molecular mechanisms of their action (Popović et al., 2013)

Duration of American Football Play and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (Mez et al., 2020)

County-Level Racial Prejudice and the Black-White Gap in Infant Health Outcomes

Adolescents with a chronic condition: challenges living, challenges treating (Sawyer et al., 2007)

Adolescents' perspectives of chronic illness: “It's hard”

The aftermath of childhood trauma on late life mental and physical health: A review of the literature

Trauma-Informed Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for Female Survivors of Interpersonal Violence: Results From a Stage I RCT

Racism Runs through It: Examining the Sexual and Reproductive Health Experience of Black Women in the South

Social media use and mental health among young adults

Covid 19: Stress Management among Students and its Impact on Their Effective Learning

If it makes you happy: Engaging in kind acts increases positive affect in socially anxious individuals.

Psycho-Spiritual Integrative Therapy for Women with Primary Breast Cancer