The Japanese Association of Health Psychology

Research Activity

Health psychology is the study of psychology that aims to understand how psychological factors and treatments contribute to maintaining and improving health and preventing and curing illness. It also aims to provide psychological contributions in health education, health care systems, and formulation of health policies.
Health psychology promotes not only basic and clinical research on psychology, but also collaborative research with related areas such as medical care, nursing, health, public health, education, physical exercise, sports, nutrition, social welfare, and bioethics.
The following are some examples of the keywords related to the research.

■ Health concept	■ Atopic disease	■ Cognitive behavior therapy
■ Assessment in health psychology	■ Diabetes	■ Rational emotive behavior therapy
■ Health education	■ Coronary artery disease	■ Autogenic training
■ Health policy	■ Cancer	■ Oriental method
■ Coping with stress	■ AIDS	■ Health psychological counseling
■ Stress	■ Sleep	■ Micro-counseling
■ Stress management	■ Pain	■ Health care system
■ QOL	■ High blood pressure	■ Happiness/joy/hope
■ Wellness	■ Psychosomatic disorder	■ Humor/laughter
■ Self-efficacy	■ Chronic disorder	■ Optimism
■ Health locus of control	■ Burnout	■ Relaxation
■ Lifestyle habit	■ Obesity	■ Sports/recreation
■ Smoking/drinking	■ Aging	■ End-of-life care
■ Type A behavior	■ Depressive tendency / anxiety	■ Social support
■ Anger/aggression/hostility	■ Diet behavior / eating disorder	■ Immunity

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