Scientific Programe
The 24th Conference of The European Health Psychology features a variety of formats including: Keynote lectures, Symposia, Oral and Poster sessions; Round-tables/Panel discussions; Pre-conference workshops; Synergy and Create workshops.

Keynote Speakers

• Prof. Michelle Fine, City University of New York, New York, USA
  abstract, short biography
• Prof. Suzanne Segerstrom, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA
  abstract, short biography
• Prof. Michael Murray, Keele University, Keele, UK
  abstract, short biography
• Prof. Mircea Miclea, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
  abstract, short biography
  

Topics

• Self-Regulation, including Illness Perceptions
• Coping with Chronic Illness and Pain
• Stress, Emotions, Coping and Health
• Social Support and Health
• Personality and Health, and Psychosomatic Problems
• Social Cognition Models and Health Behaviour
• Risk Perception and Communication, including Self-Affirmation
• Qualitative Methods
• Psychological Interventions in Chronic Disease
• Public Health Interventions and Health Promotion
• Aging and Health
• Families, Children and Health
• Culture, Social Change and Health
• Occupational Health
• Psychophysiology, PNI and Neurophysiology



Short Workshops

Pre Conference Workshops

• CREATE: http://www.ehps.net/create/home.html
• Synergy: http://synergyworkshop.eu

• Mechanisms of Health Behaviour Change
  Prof. Dr. Ralf Schwarzer, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany
• Psychological Correlates of Physical diseases: the Cognitive Orientation Approach
  Prof. Dr. Shulamith Kreitler, Tel-Aviv University & Haifa University, Israel
• Evaluating Meta Analyses: A Critical Consumers’ Guide
  James C. Coyne, PhD, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA and University of Groningen.
• Discourse Analysis
  Dr. Abigail Locke, University of Huddersfield, UK
• Developing the socio-emotional competencies of children through rational emotive education programs
  Prof. Dr. Adrian Opre, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

The SYNERGY annual workshop is organised to provide an opportunity for discussion between health psychologists conducting research in core fields within health psychology. The focus is on advancing the standard of work within the field by pooling expertise, sharing critical evaluations, and stimulating networking and collaborative research between researchers from all over Europe in an informal and supportive atmosphere. It is also an opportunity for researchers to present their research for discussion in depth with other experts working in the same field in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere.

Details of articles of Synergy and the past year Synergy workshops can be found at: http://synergyworkshop.eu

In your proposal you should present the title of the workshop, the relevance of it, ideas about the programme as well as the name(s) of the facilitator(s).

PLEASE SEND YOUR PROPOSAL TO: Karen Morgan This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Proposals for this year’s Synergy workshop are welcomed until 26^th February 2010.