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BPS Division of Health Psychology Annual Conference 2003
3-5 September 2003,
Staffordshire University
"There's nothing so practical as a good theory"
End of Conference Summary
On behalf of the Division of Health Psychology, I would like to thank Dr Rachel Povey, Dr Sarah Grogan, their Local Conference Organising team, and the Staffordshire University conference organisers for hosting the successful sixth annual conference of the DHP, September 2003. Delegates perceived the conference to be well organised, friendly and of a good quality.
Full Summary of Delegates' Feedback
In addition, I would like to thank the Conference Scientific Committee for their time and integrity in assessing all 290 abstracts submitted this year. In brief, the conference content included:
Three keynote speakers:
- Professor Martin Fishbein, University of Pennsylvania, USA; talking about 36 years of research and application of the Theory of Reasoned Action, and future directions.
- Professor Marian Pitts, La Trobe University, Australia; talking about the evidence base to understand sex and sexuality in Australia, and implications for practice and research.
- Professor John Weinman, Kings College London, UK; talking about the relationship between stress, wound healing and recovery.
Eight symposia, four workshops and 172 individual presentations:
- Symposia on current issues in implementation intentions and adherence to treatment regimens; innovative research methods; body image theory and practice; physical activity theory and research; views and experiences of survivors of stroke; advances in illness representation research; beliefs and models that inform healthy infant feeding; physiology and health psychology; critical health psychology.
- Workshops on challenges to carrying out research in end of life research; Health Psychologists skills, competencies and training in the NHS; critical health psychology; developing theoretically informed, evidence-based interventions.
- Individual Papers on decision making theories; expectancy-value theories - interventions, development and integration; risk perception; illness beliefs and emotions; quality of life; a variety of health contexts such as cervical screening, well-being, exercise, diabetes, pregnancy, cardiac rehabilitation, ulcerative colitis, immunisation, irritable bowel syndrome, breast feeding, urinary tract infection, asthma, smoking, and diet.
Exhibitors included: Elsevier; Wiley & Sons; SAGE; Uniview Worldwide Ltd; Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre; Pyramid Educational Consultants; Blackwell Publishing Ltd; Prevention of Professional abuse Network; McGraw Hill; Psychology Press; Pavilion Publishing.
Dr Hilary Bekker, DHP National Conference Organiser (2001-2004)
h.l.bekker@leeds.ac.uk
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