Standing Committee on Psychology and Health
| Country: | Austria |
| Name: | Stefan Höfer, MSc, PhD (convenor) |
| Position: | Associate Professor |
| Affiliation: | Innsbruck Medical University, Department of Medical Psychology |
| Email: | stefan.hoefer@i-med.ac.at |
| Area of work: | Patient reported outcome assessment Psychometrics Health behavior change Cardiopsychology eHealth |
| Key publications /achievements: |
The MacNew Heart Disease Health-Related Quality of Life Questionnaire in patients with angina and patients with ischemic heart failure. Cardiac rehabilitation in Austria: long term health-related quality of life outcomes. Renn D, Pfaffenberger N, Platter M, Mitmansgruber H, Cummins B, Höfer S (2008): International Well-being Index: the Austrian Version, Social Indicators Research. doi:10.1007/s11205-008-9255-2. |
| Country: | Belgium |
| Name: | Koen Lowet, MSc |
| Position: | Clinical Child Psychologist/Behavioural Therapist |
| Affiliation: | Belgian Federation of Psychologists, Observation and Treatment Centre Bethanië, MultiDisciplinary Centre for Development (MUDICO) |
| Email: | koen.lowet@bfp-fbp.be |
| Area of work: | Health policy ADHD Behavioural Disorders Trauma Residential Care |
| Key publications /achievements: |
Founding of MUDICO
Reforming Bethanië into Multifunctional Centre
Implementing the ethics code by the Belgian government.
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Croatia
| Country: | Cyprus |
| Name: | Maria Karekla, PhD |
| Position: | Clinical Psychologist, Assistant Professor |
| Affiliation: | University of Cyprus and Center for Cognitive Behavioral Psychology |
| Email: | mkarekla@ucy.ac.cy |
| Area of work: |
behavioral medicine |
| Key publications /achievements: |
Karekla, M., & Panayiotou, G. (2011). Coping and experiential avoidance: Unique or overlapping constructs? Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 42, 163-170. Karekla, M., & Constantinou, M. (2010). Religious Coping and Cancer: Proposing an Acceptance and Karekla, M., Forsyth, J. P., & Kelly, M. M. (2004). Emotional avoidance and panicogenic responding to a biological challenge procedure. Behavior Therapy, 35 (4), 725-746. |
| Country: | Czech Republic |
| Name: | Vladimir Kebza, Ph.D. |
| Position: | Professor of Clinical Psychology |
| Affiliation: | Charles University in Prague, Department of Psychology |
| Email: | vladimir.kebza@ff.cuni.cz |
| Area of work: | mental health psychosocial determinants of health, esp. (coping with stress, resilience, risk factors of cardiovascular disease, social support) wellbeing its deficiencies and disorders psychological aspects of health-related behaviour, inequalities in health |
| Key publications /achievements: |
Kebza, V.: Psychosocial determinants of health. Prague, Academia 2005, 263 pp. ISBN 80-200-1307-5. Kebza, V., Šolcová, I.: Trends in resilience theory and research. In: M. J. Celinski, K. M. Gow (Eds.): Wayfinding Through Life’s Challenges: Coping And Survival. New York: Nova Science Publishers 2011, pp. 13 – 30. ISBN 978-1-61122-866-3. Kebza, V., Šolcová, I.: Main trends in resilience and trauma recovery with children, adolescents and families. In: Gow, K., Celinski, M. (Eds.): Mass Trauma. Impact and Recovery Issues. New York, Nova Science Publishers 2013, pp. 223 – 235. ISBN 978-1-62081-557-1. |
| Country: | Finland |
| Name: | Tuula Hynninen |
| Position: | Lecturer of Health Psychology |
| Affiliation: | School of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Philosophical Faculty, University of Eastern Finland |
| Email: | tuula.hynninen@uef.fi |
| Area of work: |
Health |
| Key publications /achievements: |
Hynninen, T. & Upanne, M. (2006). Akuutti kriisityö kunnissa. Nykytila ja kehittämishaasteet [Acute crisis work in the Finnish municipalities. Present state and development challenges]. Reports, Research and Development Center for Welfare and Health/Stakes 2006: 2. Lankinen, S. & Hynninen, T. (2006). Psykososiaalinen tuki ja palvelut suuronnettomuudessa. Asiantuntijatyöryhmän raportti [Psychosocial support and services in situations of disaster. Memorandum of the Expert Working Group on psychosocial support and services in situations of disaster]. Reports of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health 2006:81. Hynninen, T. (2010). Millaista arviointitietoa suomalaisen kriisityön käytännön toimivuudesta, vaikutuksista ja vaikuttavuudesta on koottu [What kind of evaluation data has been gathered on the practical efficacy, effects and effectiveness of Finnish crisis work]? Psykologia/Psychology, 45 (01), 2010, 69 - 80. |
| Country: | Germany |
| Name: | Dipl.-Psych. Julia Scharnhorst, MPH |
| Position: | Consultant for Health Psychology |
| Affiliation: | Health Professional Plus German Psychologists Association |
| Email: | Julia.scharnhorst@h-p-plus.de |
| Area of work: | occupational mental health Stress management and resilience |
| Key publications /achievements: |
Scharnhorst, J.. Burnout - Präventionsstrategien und Handlungsoptionen für Unternehmen. Haufe Verlag (2012) Scharnhorst, J. (2013). Burnout - die neue Volkskrankheit?. Die großen Volkskrankheiten - Beiträge der Psychologie zu Prävention, Gesundheitsförderung und Behandlung. 31 - 40. |
| Country: | France |
| Name: | Frédéric Conti , PhD |
| Position: | Psychologist |
| Affiliation: |
FFPP (Fédération Française des Psychologues et de psychologie) |
| Email: | frederic.conti@sfr.fr |
| Area of work: | Job strain and associated mental and physical health |
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| Country: | Iceland |
| Name: | Helma Rut Einarsdóttir, PhD |
| Position: | Psychologist |
| Affiliation: |
Icelandic Psychological Association |
| Email: | helmarut@reykjalundur.is |
| Area of work: | health psychology clinical psychology rehabilitation cente |
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| Country: | Ireland |
| Name: | Mary Morrissey, PhD |
| Position: | Head of Psychology, Health Intelligence |
| Affiliation: | Health Service Executive and Diabetic Day Clinic Connolly Hospital and Royal College of Surgeons RCSI |
| Email: | maryc.morrissey@hse.ie |
| Area of work: | Implementation Science Change Management Visualisation /Visioning Mentoring Research Ethics and Practice based learning |
| Key publications /achievements: |
Jennings S, Bennett K, Cavanagh B, Morrissey M and Kearney P. (2011) Heartbeat – Improving heart attack care. Ir Med J; 104(1): 9-12. |
| Country: | Italy |
| Name: | Dr. Vito Tummino |
| Position: | Director of Clinical Psychology |
| Affiliation: | Sant'Anna Hospital, Via Napoleona 60 Como |
| Email: | vitotu@tiscali.it |
| Area of work: | Clinical psychology Health psychology Group and family psychotherapy |
| Key publications /achievements: |
Analysis of psychological issues in a Institute of Psycho- Medical -Educational - Notes and Review of Psychiatry, 1979 Northern Ireland: effects of violence terrorist "-" Italian Psychology ", 1998 Psycho-Oncology, chapter XIV: ethical aspects Ed. Masson 2002 The development of scientific psychological publishing in Italy -- Psychology Science Vol. 51 suppl. I – Ed. Pabst Science Köln Germany 2009. |
| Country: | Latvia |
| Name: | Ludmila Derjabo Mg of Psych, Mg of Math. |
| Position: | Specialist in Psychological Counselling, lector, researcher |
| Affiliation: | International High School of Practical Psychology, Latvian University Institute of Atomic Physics and Spectrography, NGO “Vitality”, Private Practice |
| Email: | ludmilader@inbox.lv |
| Area of work: | Health psychology Coping in situation regarding with heavy illness Individual and group therapy (with cancer patients) Psychological Counseling Researches |
| Key publications /achievements: |
L.Derjabo, D.Licovs “Support group for cancer patients”, III Oncopsychology meeting, Moscow, 2010 A.Derjabo, L.Derjabo Abstracts of the 10th Congress of the Baltic Association of Dermatovenerologists „Difficult case of melanoma integrative treatment”, 2011 L.Derjabo, D.Licovs “Therapeutics support group for cancer patients”, Kazan, 2011 Coauthor of the book “"Are we tolerant?" - Riga, 2008 |
| Country: | Luxembourg |
| Name: | Claus Vögele, PhD, Dipl.-Psych., CPsychol, CSci, AFBPsS |
| Position: | Professor |
| Affiliation: | Institute for Health and Behaviour, Research Unit INSIDE, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg |
| Email: | claus.voegele@uni.lu |
| Area of work: | Self-regulation and health emotion regulation and chronic pain emotion regulation in adolescents cognitive bias in eating disorders obesity lifestyle change and health early life adversity and its epigenetic effects on mind-body health interoception, stress and decision making |
| Key publications /achievements: |
Vögele, C., Hilbert, A. & Tuschen-Caffier, B. (2009). Dietary restriction, cardiac autonomic regulation and stress reactivity in bulimic women. Physiology & Behavior, 98, 229-234. Vögele, C., Ehlers, A., Meyer, A.H., Frank, M., Hahlweg, K. & Margraf, J. (2010). Cognitive mediation of clinical improvement after intensive exposure-based therapy of agoraphobia and social phobia. Depression and Anxiety, 27, 294-301. Vögele, C., Sorg, S., Studtmann, M. & Weber, H. (2010). Cardiac autonomic regulation and anger coping in adolescents. Biological Psychology, 85, 465-471. Spaderna, H., Vögele, C., Barten, M. J, Smits, J. M. A., Bunyamin, V., & Weidner, G., for the Waiting for a new heart study group (2014). Physical activity and depression predict event-free survival in heart transplant candidates. Health Psychology, Epub ahead of print Feb 10. Doi: 10.1037/hea0000033 |
| Country: | Norway |
| Name: | Ingrid Hyldmo, PhD |
| Position: | Specialist in clinical psychology |
| Affiliation: | Diakonhjemmet Hospital, P.O. Box 23, Vinderen, NO-0319 Oslo |
| Email: | Ingrid.hyldmo@diakonsyk.no |
| Area of work: | Clinical Health psychology Occupational psychology Familiy psychology |
| Key publications /achievements: |
Hyldmo, I. & Lunde L.H (2001). Dementia and coping in caregivers, Journal of dementia (2001) Hyldmo, I., Hafstad R. & Nordhus I.H., Communication with patients with dementia, Journal of the Norwegian Psychological association (2003) Fjerstad, E. og Hyldmo, I. Coping with severe illness and death in cancer patients, Journal of the Norwegian Psychological association (2013) |
Poland
| Country: | Portugal |
| Name: | Samuel Antunes, PhD |
| Position: |
Vice-President - Order of Portuguese Psychologists; Professor; Psychotherapist; |
| Affiliation: |
Order of Portuguese Psychologists |
| Email: | samuel.antunes@ordemdospsicologos.pt |
| Area of work: |
Occupational Health Psychology |
| Key publications /achievements: |
Marques-Teixeira, J., Antunes, S. (2000) Cliente Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy, Lisboa, Vale e Vale Editores, Antunes, S., (2010) Identité professionnelle et Santé au travail: sentiment de réussite, estime de soi et coping chez les cadres portugais, Toulouse, Université Toulouse LeMirail Tap, P., Roudes, R., Antunes, S., (2013). La dynamique personnelle et les identities professionnelles en situation de changement, Les Cahiers of Internationaux de Psychologie Sociale, Nº 99-100, pp. 385-407 |
| Country: | Spain |
| Name: | Jesús Rodríguez-Marín, PhD |
| Position: | Professor of Health Psychology and Clinical Psychologist |
| Affiliation: | School of Medicine. University 'Miguel Hernández' of Elche (Spain) University General Hospital of Alicante (Spain). |
| Email: | rod.marin@umh.es |
| Area of work: | Stress and illness Quality of life in chronic patients Psychosocial adjustment to illness Quality of health care services. |
| Key publications /achievements: |
Mira, J.J., Tomás, O., Pérez, M.V., Nebot, C., y Rodríguez-Marín, J. (2009). Predictors of patient satisfaction in surgery. Surgery, 145(5), 536-541. Pérez Martínez, E., Tirado González, S., Mateu Vicente, M., Van-der Hofstadt Román, C. y Rodríguez-Marín. (2012). Psychopathology in a sample of candidate patients for bariatric surgery. International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, junio 2012; Early Online: 1-9. ISSN 1365-1501, Online ISSN: 1473-4885. J.J. Mira , I. Navarro , B. Huttner , L. Ortiz , V. Pérez-Jover , P. Ramón-Pardo & J. Rodríguez-Marín (2013): What do Spaniards read about the prudent use of anti-microbial agents and what do they really do?, Psychology, Health & Medicine, DOI:10.1080/13548506.2013.793370 |
| Country: | Switzerland |
| Name: | Agnes von Wyl, Dr. |
| Position: | Professor, Head of Research in Psychotherapy & Mental Health |
| Affiliation: | Zurich University of Applied Sciences, School of Applied Psychology |
| Email: | agnes.vonwyl@zhaw.ch |
| Area of work: | Psychotherapy research with adults and with children/ adolescents infant mental health mental health |
| Key publications /achievements: |
von Wyl, A., Crameri, A., Koemeda, M. Tschuschke, V. & Schulthess, P. (2015). Practice Study Outpatient Psychotherapy- Switzerland (PAP-S): Study Design and Feasibility (Rev. ed.). Zurich: Zurich University of Applied Sciences. von Wyl, A., Heim, G., Rüsch, N., Rössler, W. & Andreae, A. (2013). Network coordination following discharge from psychiatric inpatient treatment: a study protocol. BMC Psychiatry, 13, 220. doi:10.1186/1471-244X-13-220 Hengartner, M. P., Klauser, M., Heim, G., Passalacqua, S., Andreae, A., Rössler, W., & von Wyl, A. (2015). Introduction of a psychosocial post-discharge intervention programme aimed at reducing psychiatric rehospitalisation rates and at improving mental health and functioning. Perspectives in Psychiatric Care, doi: 10.111Tppc.12131 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Name: | Dr. Pauline Adair |
| Position: | Director of Behavioural Medicine |
| Affiliation: | University of Strathclyde |
| Email: | pauline.adair@strath.ac.uk |
| Area of work: | Health behaviour change Chronic illness Psychological Interventions Illness Perceptions |
| Key publications /achievements: |
Robinson, L., Adair, P., Coffey, M., Harris, R & Burnside, G. Identifying the participant characteristics that predict recruitment and retention of participants to RCTs involving children: A systematic review. BMC Trials. 2016. May 2016 17:294 Pine C, Adair P, Robinson L, Burnside G, Moynihan P, Wade W, Kistler J, Curnow M, Henderson M. The BBaRTS Healthy Teeth Behaviour Change Programme for preventing dental caries in primary school children: study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial. Trials. 2016 Feb 20;17(1):1. H Dale, L Watson, P Adair, G Humphris. Looked after young people in Scotland; reducing inequalities through an evidence-and theory-informed intervention based on motivational interviewing and behaviour change techniques. Health Education Journal. February 11, 2016 0017896916628577. |
Russia
Kseniya Kuleshova
| Country: | EFPSA |
| Name: | David Nilsson |
| Position: | Student (MSc) |
| Affiliation: | Lund University |
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| Area of work: | Clinical psychology; Political psychology |
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