Aims and Scope

Iranian journal of Health psychology welcomes researchers, scholars, resource persons and practitioners to come up with their ideas and new perspectives that can extend the existing body of knowledge in below mentioned scope. The areas of interest include the following subjects, but are not limited to:

•​Contextual factors that may contribute to diseases and their prevention.

•​Interfaces among biological, psychological, social, and behavioral factors in health

•​Assessment approaches in health

•​Health risk and resilience

•​Child health and adolescent health promotion.

•​Couple and family relationships in health.

•​Lifespan approaches to health, including those related to older adults

•​Evaluation and dissemination of treatment approaches that target the individual, family, group, multicenter, or community level.

•​Ethnicity, social class, gender, sexual, orientation in health.

•​Health disparities.

•​Research methodology, measurement, and statistics in health psychology.

•​Implications of research findings for health-related policy.

•​Advances in health-related theories.

•​Innovations in technology related to health psychology

•​Professional issues in health psychology, including training and supervision.