🔔New article!
Sarah Stutterheim shares mistakes and lessons from designing and evaluating an HIV stigma intervention. The paper walks through all six Intervention Mapping steps, explaining what went wrong and key insights for real-world application.
▶️https://doi.org/10.62696/87jab644
📌New article!
Lisa Harms, Tugce Varol, and Gido Metz highlight the importance of Intervention Mapping Step 6: Evaluation. They argue that real-world settings require flexible evaluation approaches, especially when interventions must adapt during implementation.
▶️https://doi.org/10.62696/avt3nm66
🤔What does it take to successfully facilitate, monitor, and adapt a real-world health programme?
In our special issue on Intervention Mapping, Kathelijne Bessems and Patricia van Assema share practical lessons from implementing the Dutch Good Affordable Food programme.
▶️ doi.org/10.62696/w3e...
📌New article!
In our special issue on intervention mapping, Idah Mokhele introduces Step 4 of the Intervention Mapping protocol: Program Production, emphasizing the translation of a carefully planned program into a practical, effective, real-world intervention.
▶️ doi.org/10.62696/xvp...
🔔New article!
Gido Metz, Jeroen Bruinsma, and Tugce Varol outline Step 3 of Intervention Mapping: Program Design, showing how to generate program ideas, select evidence-based behavior change methods, and translate them into practical, effective applications.
Read more: doi.org/10.62696/was...
📌New article!
A practical step-by-step guide to Step 2 of Intervention Mapping by Liliane Said and Gjalt-Jorn Peters shows how to translate needs assessment findings into specific objectives aimed at changing health behaviours and environmental conditions.
▶️https://doi.org/10.62696/yatcxb39
🔔New article!
In this article of our Special Issue, Francine Schneider & Ekaterina Volevach present intervention mapping step 1: needs & asset assessment.
Read the full article here: doi.org/10.62696/152...
📌New article!
Core Processes help answer key questions to find evidence-based solutions. Rik Crutzen & Judith Nalukwago show how they align with Intervention Mapping, supporting participatory, theory-informed, and ecological approaches.
Read the full article here: ehps.net/ehp/index.ph...
The European Health Psychologist Special Issue on Intervention Mapping Part I is here! 🎉
Designed as an educational resource, it covers all 6 steps of Intervention Mapping with case studies, practical guidance, and 2 papers expanding how it’s used in practice.
Full issue: doi.org/10.62696/pwv...
Kicking off the year with our first The European Health Psychologist editorial meeting! 😊🙋♀️
EHP Team Photo Dec 2025
Greetings from the Editorial Team of the European Health Psychologist! 😀
We are happy to welcome our new team members:
Ioanna Koliandri and Laura Scholakse. 🤝
We wish you all a joyful holiday season! 💫
📢 The European Health Psychologist is looking for new Associate Editors! Interested?✨Contact the editorial team at ehp@ehps.net for more information or immediately apply with your CV and a 300-word statement by October 31! 📆 ✍️
Greetings from the Editorial Team of the European Health Psychology!
We’re working on the upcoming issues and look forward to sharing them with you soon!
📌New article!
Talea Cornelius and colleagues explore the psychedelic resurgence, highlighting opportunities for advancing behavioral and mental wellness as well as theory development.
Read the full article here: doi.org/10.62696/zz0...
📌New article!
Laura Winkens et al. examine personalization in digital health interventions, highlighting challenges like limited theory, data complexities, and sustaining user engagement with interdisciplinary collaboration and user involvement as key solutions.
Read here: ehps.net/ehp/index.ph...
📌 New article!
Jacob Crawshaw explores why medication adherence remains such a challenge in long-term conditions and points to new ways forward.
Read the full article here: doi.org/10.62696/g8y...
🎉The 2nd EHP 2025 is out! After a lot of hard work, our first issue in the new system is live. Huge thanks to Gjalt-Jorn Peters for developing the R package zirconia, and to Thomas Gültzow, Filipa Teixeira, and Maya Braun for bringing it all together.
Check it out: doi.org/p3t2
Greetings from the Editorial Board of the European Health Psychology! Working on the upcoming issues - stay tuned for more news coming up very soon! 📰
Friendly hello from the European Health Psychologist editorial team! 👋 We are currently cooking up not one, not two, but three new issues. Lots of exciting content coming your way—stay tuned! 💡📘
Applications are still open until April 22nd! Get your applications in by emailing ehp@ehps.net
You might have heard that the EHPS Executive Committee had some changes in the last year. But who is in the new committee?
The 2024 - 2026 EHPS EC introduces themselves in the European Health Psychologist, including the 5(!) new members of the EC.
Read the full introduction here:
Levy and colleagues showcase how they train exercise specialists to use motivational communication when talking about physical activity with their patients. They share their method, as well as insights gained throughout the process.
Learn more here:
Andriana Theodoropoulou won the 2023 Early Career Award from from @ehpsopenscisig.bsky.social, and introduces herself and her work at the university of Essex in this EHP report.
Read the report here:
Early-to-mid-career researcher in EHPS? Then the European network for post-doctoral early career and Mid-career researchers in health PsychOlogy focusing on Well-being and Empowerment of Researchers (EMPOWER) might be for you.
They introduce themselves to the EHPS in this report:
📢 New in The European Health Psychologist!
Can formal modeling advance health psychology? 🤔 Perski & Allen explore how dynamical systems models can refine theories of behavior change - and provide some tips and tricks on how to apply them!
Read more:
The first European Health Psychologist of 2025 is here! 🎉 Featuring:
🔹 A welcome from the new EHPS EC
🔹 Introduction of the EMPOWER network
🔹Theodoropoulou on Open Science 🏆
🔹 Perski & Allen on dynamical systems modeling
🔹 Levy et al. on cancer exercise training
Full issue here: buff.ly/H731lvH
The European Health Psychologist Wanted! Looking for new associate editors!
The EHPS is looking to appoint a new Associate Editor for The European Health Psychologist. Through this role, you will gain editorial experience, collaborate with international colleagues, and contribute to the EHPS.
Who can apply? Applicants must be working or studying in the area of Health Psychology. They must also have an understanding of what the EHPS is and its role. Therefore, preference will be given to applicants who are EHPS members or can provide evidence of previous experience with the Society. We would particularly welcome applications from Early Career Researchers (no more than 5 years post-PhD) and individuals with an interest in managing The European Health Psychologist social media channels. The editorial team meets online every 6 weeks, and you will be asked to review up to 10 articles every year.
How to apply: If you would like to know more about this role, then please contact the editorial team at ehp@ehps.net. To apply, please submit a CV and 300-word statement explaining why you are interested in this role and how you meet the role criteria to ehp@ehps.net.
The European Health Psychologist is looking for new associate editors! Interested? Contact the editorial team at ehp@ehps.net for more info, or immediately apply with your CV and a 300-word statement.
Greetings from the EHP editorial team! Super stoked about all the submissions we got, both for our regular issue coming up soon, and for the special issue this summer. Stay tuned!
🔍 EHPS Synergy Winter School 2025: Dive into mixed & multi-level modeling!
📅 11–12 March 2025 | 📍 Berlin, Germany | 💶 €200
Learn advanced techniques, visualization, & R (with Jamovi options). Open to all levels!
Apply by 31 Jan: forms.gle/ihR8NtxJNSoT...
#StatsWorkshop #HealthPsychology #Rstats
Hello Bluesky!
The European Health Psychologist just had its last meeting of 2024, and we're happy to announce that we are officially moving our social media presence over!
Stay tuned for updates on all things EHPS!