This new collection showcases state-of-the-art methodological advances and provides a significant resource for scholars in health psychology and related fields, including nursing, public health, and medical sociology.

VOLUME ONE: THE RISE AND FALL OF SOCIAL COGNITION MODELS Part One: Theory of Planned Behaviour – Developments Implementation Intentions and the Theory of Planned Behaviour - Sheina Orbell, Sarah Hodgkins and Paschal Sheeran Social Cognition Models and Health Behaviour: A Structured Review - Christopher Armitage and Mark Conner Efficacy of the Theory of Planned Behaviour: A Meta-Analytic Review - Christopher Armitage and Mark Conner Prospective Prediction of Health-Related Behaviours with the Theory of Planned Behaviour: A Meta-Analysis - Rosemary McEachan, Mark Conner, Natalie Taylor and Rebecca Lawton Part Two: Theory of Planned Behaviour – Problems The Expectancy-Value Muddle in the Theory of Planned Behaviour – and Some Proposed Solutions - David French and Matthew Hankins Does Changing Behavioral Intentions Engender Behavior Change? A Meta-Analysis of the Experimental Evidence - Thomas Webb and Paschal Sheeran Beyond Behavioural Intentions: Planning Mediates between Intentions and Physical Activity - Urte Scholz, Benjamin Schüz, Jochen Ziegelmann, Sonia Lippke and Ralf Schwarzer Part Three: Theory of Planned Behaviour – Critique Some Problems with Social Cognition Models: A Pragmatic and Conceptual Analysis - Jane Ogden Old Clothes and an Older Look: The Case for a Radical Makeover in Health Behaviour Research - Frances Mielewczyk and Carla Willig The Theory of Reasoned Action: A Case Study of Falsification in Psychology - David Trafimow Time to Retire the Theory of Planned Behaviour - Falko Sniehotta, Justin Presseau and Vera Araújo-Soares Part Four: Transtheoretical Model – Developments The Transtheoretical Model of Health Behavior Change - James Prochaska and Wayne Velicer Stage Theories of Health Behavior: Conceptual and Methodological Issues - Neil Weinstein, Alexander Rothman and Stephen Sutton Part Five: Transtheoretical Model – Critique The ‘Stages of Change’ Model in Health Promotion: Science and Ideology - Robin Bunton, Steve Baldwin, Darren Flynn and Sandy Whitelaw Time for a Change: Putting the Transtheoretical (Stages of Change) Model to Rest - Robert West Is There Utility in the Transtheoretical Model? - Christopher Armitage VOLUME TWO: THE PERSISTENCE OF THE PSYCHOSOCIAL Part One: Psychological Characteristics Hostility and Health: Current Status of a Psychosomatic Hypothesis - Timothy Smith Self-Rated Health and Mortality: A Review of Twenty-Seven Community Studies - Ellen Idler and Yael Benyamini The Association of Coping to Physical and Psychological Health Outcomes: A Meta-Analytic Review - Julie Penley, Joe Tomaka and John Wiebe Health Status and the Five Factor Personality Traits in a Nationally Representative Sample - Renee Goodwin and Howard Friedman Psychological Stress and Wound Healing in Humans: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis - Jessica Walburn, Kavita Vedhara, Matthew Hankins, Lorna Rixon and John Weinman Personality Is of Central Concern to Understand Health: Towards a Theoretical Model for Health Psychology - Eamonn Ferguson Part Two: Social Relationships Health Psychology: What Is an Unhealthy Environment and How Does It Get under the Skin? - Shelley Taylor, Rena Repetti and Teresa Seeman Social Relationships and Health - Sheldon Cohen Social Support and Cancer Progression: A Systematic Review - Bina Nausheen, Yori Gidron, Robert Peveler and Rona Moss-Morris Part Three: Illness Management Self-Regulation: An Important Construct in Health Psychology Research and Practice - Martin Hagger Improving Patient Adherence: A Three-Factor Model to Guide Practice - Robin DiMatteo, Kelly Haskard-Zolnierek and Leslie Martin Part Four: Pathways Developing Psychosocial Theory in Health Psychology: Problems and Prospects - John Spicer and Kerry Chamberlain Health Psychology: The Search for Pathways between Behavior and Health - Howard Leventhal, John Weinman, Elaine Leventhal and Alison Phillips The Status of the ‘Biopsychosocial’ Model in Health Psychology: Towards an Integrated Approach and a Critique of Cultural Conceptions - Andrew Hatala VOLUME THREE: THE INCREASING FOCUS ON INTERVENTIONS Part One: Planning and Evaluating Everything Should Be as Simple as Possible, but No Simpler: Towards a Protocol for Accumulating Evidence Regarding the Active Content of Health Behaviour Change interventions - Gjalt-Jorn Ygram Peters, Marijnde Bruin and Rik Crutzen Planning for, Implementing and Assessing the Impact of Health Promotion and Behaviour Change Interventions: A Way Forward for Health Psychologists - Louise Wallace, Katherine Brown and Suzanne Hilton Health Psychology Interventions - Ronan O’Carroll Part Two: Primary Prevention Interventions to Change Health Behaviours: Evidence-based or Evidence-Inspired? - Susan Michie and Charles Abraham Intervention Mapping: Protocol for Applying Health Psychology Theory to Prevention Programmes - Gerjo Kok, Herman Schaalma, Robert Ruiter, Pepijn Van Empelen and Johannes Brug Does Tailoring Matter? Meta-Analytic Review of Tailored Print Health Behavior Change Interventions - Seth Noar, Christina Benac and Melissa Harris A Taxonomy of Behavior Change Techniques Used in Interventions - Charles Abraham and Susan Michie Part Three: Clinical Interventions Using the Common Sense Model to Design Interventions for the Prevention and Management of Chronic Illness Threats: From Description to Process - Lisa McAndrew, Tamara Musumeci-Szabó, Pablo Mora, Loretta Vileikyte, Edith Burns, Ethan Halm, Elaine Leventhal and Howard Leventhal Ecological Momentary Interventions: Incorporating Mobile Technology into Psychosocial and Health Behaviour Treatments - Kristin Heron and Joshua Smyth Tailored Text Messaging Intervention for HIV Adherence: A Proof-of-Concept Study - Megan Lewis, Jennifer Uhrig, Carla Bann, Jennie Harris, Robert Furberg, Curtis Coomes and Lisa Kuhns Interdisciplinary Chronic Pain Management - Robert Gatchel, Donald McGeary and Cindy McGeary Part Four: Community Interventions Health, Community and Development: Towards a Social Psychology of Participation - Catherine Campbell and Sandra Jovchelovitch Navigating the Social Context of Metastatic Breast Cancer: Reflections on a Project Linking Research to Drama - Ross Gray, Christina Sinding and Margaret Fitch Community-based Participatory Research: Partnering with Communities for Effective and Sustainable Behavioral Health Interventions - Laura Bogart and Kimberly Uyeda Community Mobilisation in the 21st Century: Updating Our Theory of Social Change? - Catherine Campbell VOLUME FOUR: DIFFERENTIATION IN THE FIELD Part One: Approaches Freedom, Responsibility and Power: Contrasting Approaches to Health Psychology - David Marks Clinical Health Psychology: A Specialty for the 21st Century - Cynthia Belar Public Health Psychology: Expanding the Horizons of Health Psychology - Jane Wardle Public Health Psychology: A Conceptual and Practical Framework - Julie Hepworth Community Health Psychology: Promoting Analysis and Action for Social Change - Catherine Campbell and Michael Murray The Future of Occupational Health Psychology - Wilmar Schaufeli Towards a Critical Health Psychology Practice - Isaac Prilleltensky and Ora Prilleltensky Part Two: The Rise of Qualitative Research Reconciling Discursive and Materialist Perspectives on Health and Illness: A Reconstruction of the Biopsychosocial Approach - Lucy Yardley Encompassing Experience: Meanings and Methods in Health Psychology - Kerry Chamberlain, Christine Stephens and Antonia Lyons Beyond the Divide between Cognition and Discourse: Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis in Health Psychology - Jonathan Smith The Social Construction of Individual and Public Health: Contributions of Social Representations Theory to a Social Science of Health - Uwe Flick Methodolatry and Qualitative Health Research - Kerry Chamberlain Part Three: Qualitative Research in Action Levels of Narrative Analysis in Health Psychology - Michael Murray ‘My Wife Ordered Me to Come!’: A Discursive Analysis of Doctors’ and Nurses’ Accounts of Men’s Use of General Practitioners - Sarah Seymour-Smith, Margaret Wetherell and Ann Phoenix Remembering One’s Stay in Hospital: A Study in Photography, Recovery and Forgetting - Alan Radley and Diane Taylor The Personal Meaning of Eating Disorder Symptoms: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis - Andrew Fox, Michael Larkin and Newman Leung VOLUME FIVE: DIVERSITY – THE EXPANSION OF CONTEXTS Part One: Social Inequality Understanding How Inequality in the Distribution of Income Affects Health - John Lynch and George Kaplan US Disparities in Health: Descriptions, Causes, and Mechanisms - Nancy Adler and David Rehkopf Social Conditions as Fundamental Causes of Health Inequalities: Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications - Jo Phelan, Bruce Link and Parisa Tehranifar A Socially Situated Approach to Inform Ways to Improve Health and Wellbeing - Christine Horrocks and Sally Johnson Part Two: Gender Gay Men and HIV/AIDS Risk Management - Paul Flowers From Suet Pudding to Superhero: Representations of Men’s Health for Women - Antonia Lyons and Sara Willott Feminist Research Traditions in Health Psychology: Breast Cancer Research - Sue Wilkinson Issues for a Psychology of Men’s Health - Christina Lee and Glynn Owens Our Health, Our Say: Towards a Feminist Perspective of Lesbian Health Psychology - Julie Fish Part Three: Race and Ethnicity Discrimination and Racial Disparities in Health: Evidence and Needed Research - David Williams and Selina Mohammed Race, Racism and Health: Disparities, Mechanisms, and Interventions - Elizabeth Brondolo, Linda Gallo and Hector Myers Perceived Racial Discrimination and Hypertension: A Comprehensive Systematic Review - Cynthia Dolezsar, Jennifer McGrath, Alyssa Herzig and Sydney Miller Part Four: Global Health Possible Contributions of a Psychology of Liberation: Whither Health and Human Rights - M. Brinton Lykes Health Psychology in African Settings: A Cultural-Psychological Analysis - Glenn Adams and Phia Salter Cultural Embeddedness of Health, Ethics and Healing: Prospects for Integrating Indigenous and Western Healing Practices - Tholene Sodi and Olaniyi Bojuwoye