Division 38 - Health Psychology

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Division 38 - Health Psychology seeks to advance contributions of psychology to the understanding of health and illness through basic and clinical research, education, and service activities and encourages the integration of biomedical information about health and illness with current psychological knowledge. The Division has a nursing and health group and special interest groups in aging, women, and minority health issues. The Division publishes the bimonthly journal Health Psychology and the quarterly newsletter The Health Psychologist. Division 38 offers a listing of training programs in health psychology and presents an annual student paper award.

A Closer Look: Click here to read about the division in the Monitor on Psychology, a publication of APA

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President: Karina W. Davidson, PhD, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY

Journal: Health Psychology (bimonthly)
Editor: Robert M. Kaplan, PhD, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA

• January 2008 (Volume 27, Number 1 -- with Supplemental Issue: Diet, Exercise, and Diabetes Control), arrived January 25, 2008
• March 2008 (Volume 27, Number 2 -- with Supplemental Issue: Mediation and Moderation), arrived April 2, 2008
• May 2008 (Volume 27, Number 3 -- with Supplemental Issue: Tobacco and Health Psychology), arrived July 11, 2008
• July 2008 (Volume 27, Number 4), arrived July 22, 2008
• September 2008 (Volume 27, Number 5), arrived September 18, 2008
• November 2008 (Volume 27, Number 6), arrived November 21, 2008

• January 2009 (Volume 28, Number 1), arrived January 16, 2009
• March 2009 (Volume 28, Number 2), arrived March 16, 2009
• May 2009 (Volume 28, Number 3), arrived May 22, 2009
• July 2009 (Volume 28, Number 4), estimated arrival July 22, 2009
• September 2009 (Volume 28, Number 5), estimated arrival September 18, 2009
• November 2009 (Volume 28, Number 6), estimated arrival November 15, 2009

Newsletter: The Health Psychologist (quarterly)
Editor: Kevin A. Masters, PhD, Utah State University, Logan, UT

• Spring 2008 (Volume 30, Number 1), arrived April 1, 2008
• Summer 2008 (Volume 30, Number 2), arrived July 18, 2008
• Fall 2008 (Volume 30, Number 3), arrived November 14, 2008

• Spring 2009 (Volume 31, Number 1), arrived April 7, 2009
• Summer 2009 (Volume 31, Number 2), estimated arrival July 18, 2009
• Fall 2009 (Volume 31, Number 3), estimated arrival November 14, 2009

Division-Sponsored Publications: http://www.health-psych.org/

Division Meeting: APA Annual Convention, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, August 6-9, 2009, Website: www.apa.org/convention/

Awards: www.apa.org/about/division/div38awards.html

For Additional Information Contact: Division 38 Administrative Office, American Psychological Association, 750 First Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002-4242; Telephone: (202) 216-7602; Fax: (202) 218-3599; Email: Keith Cooke

Homepage: www.health-psych.org