Assessment in Health Psychology

Bringing together top experts in the field, this volume provides current and in-depth knowledge on issues related to assessment as well as to specific measures used in health psychology research and practice. Intended for a broad audience, it presents and discusses the appropriate assessment methods and/or instruments for specific areas that are central for health psychologists--illness and cognition, quality of life, and pain. Secondly, it describes the conceptual and methodological bases for assessment in health psychology, including important issues in health psychology assessment--translation and validation across languages/cultures, as well as recent progress in method. A unique feature of this volume is its emphasis on the bidirectional link between theory and assessment. Annotation c2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Yael Benyamini, PhD, is Professor at the Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University (Israel). She teaches assessment in her masters and doctoral level methodology courses and has a long record of research on self-regulation and the role of perceptions of health and illness in chronic diseases, women‘s health issues, and health promotion.Marie Johnston, PhD, is Emeritus Professor of Health Psychology in the College of Life Sciences and Medicine at the University of Aberdeen (UK).She is an ex-President and elected Honorary Fellow of the European Health Psychology Society, Honorary Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.Evangelos Karademas, PhD, is Associate Professor of Clinical Health Psychology at the Department of Psychology, University of Crete (Greece). He teaches undergraduate and postgraduate health psychology courses at the Universities of Crete and Athens.