Promoting Health Psychology
Promoting Health Psychology is an important aspect of the DHP's work. To help with this, the Publicity & Liaison sub-committee have developed a range of promotional materials aimed at a variety of audiences. These are available as hard copies by contacting the DHP support officer or by clicking on the link to the PDF versions below.
We have also produced a DHP Member Information pack which gives details of the benefits of DHP membership.
We are indebted to Thea Valentine and Emma Eaton for all their hard work in the development and production of these materials.
- Health Psychology a guide for the public
- Health Psychology a guide for employees
- Health Psychology a guide for employers
- DHP Member's Pack
- What is health psychology? Powerpoint presentation (available soon)
Specialist Knowledge
The Division of Health Psychology is frequently asked to comment on initiatives related to health policy, promotion, education and research. These calls are usually issued by governmental services such as the NHS or Department of Health, independent organisations responsible for standards in health, such as NICE, independent reports compiled on behalf of the government (e.g., the Cooksey review of UK Health Research), and international organisations such as the World Health Organisation.
The calls are forwarded by the BPS who identifies the relevant divisions and sends them to the divisional representatives, who in the DHP is the Consultation and Specialist Knowledge Co-ordinator, Dr Angel Chater. She will then identify a suitable specialist or specialists from the specialist knowledge list and approach them to ask whether they are prepared to make a comment and, if so, to forward their comments to her by a specified deadline. She will then collate their comments and return them to the BPS.
Responses will be recorded on a specialist reviewer log for the sub-committee’s quarterly and annual report and will be acknowledged to the BPS, the organisation responsible for the call and in this section of the DHP website with a link to the final consultation response.
Responses do not have to be long, they just need to identify the issues in the consultation document you think are important to health psychology as a discipline and to people who practice as health psychologists.
We are always keen to hear from DHP members who have yet to join the specialist knowledge list. If you would like to be involved in the most up-to-date consultations in your specialist interest areas within health psychology please send a brief resume of your background in health psychology and key words to represent an overview of your area(s) of interest to:
Dr Angel Chater, email: angel.chater@beds.ac.uk, tel: 01582 489217
Since September 2007 we have had 60 requests for consultation. A sample of the consultations we, as a division, have been able to respond to and the members who have kindly provided their specialist knowledge for these responses can be found below. Please also find attached the equivalent BPS Responses.
• 17/06/08 New consultation - Alcohol Misuse (Scotland) (Richard Cooke), BPS_Response_to_Alcohol_Misuse Paper.pdf
• 24/04/08 NICE: Proactive case finding and retention and improving access to services (Derek Johnston), BPS_Response_to_NICE_1.pdf
• 18/04/08 NICE: Critical illness rehabilitation: scope consultation (Andrew Thompson), BPS_Response_to_NICE_2.pdf
• 08/04/08 NICE: Alcohol Use Disorder in Adults and Young People - Consultation on the Draft Scope (Robert Patton), BPS_Response_to_NICE_3.pdf
• 01/04/08 New consultation - Children's Environment & Health Strategy (Leo Hendry)
• 25/03/08 NICE: Preventing the Uptake of Smoking by Children - Consultation on the Draft Guidance (Sasha Cain, Angel Chater)
• 22/02/08 New consultation - Clinical Governance in Drug Treatment (Andy Guppy)
• 21/02/08 New consultation - Substance Misuse Strategy for Wales (Andy Guppy)
• 24/1/08 Achieving Culture Change: A Policy Framework discussion paper (Chris Armitage)
• 15/01/08 Stroke Consultation (Moira Owens)
• 03/01/08 NICE: Workplace Physical Activity - Consultation on the Draft Guidance (Martin Hagger)
• 27/11/07 NICE: Preventing the Uptake of Smoking by Children - Consultation on Evidence Kazminder Fox, Loraine Gravesande, Angel Chater)
• 11/10/07 New consultation on the health of the working age population (Suzanne Skevington)
• 13/09/07 NICE: Mental Health and Older People - Consultation on Evidence (Kevin McKee)
• 03/09/07 Review of NICE Technology Appraisal guidance no.97 on computerised cognitive behaviour therapy (Andy Keen)
To access governmental and non-governmental Consultation Papers please visit: http://www.bps.org.uk/publications/consultation-papers/consultation-papers_home.cfm?