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In 1993 an International Health Psychology Conference was
organized in Tokyo, Japan. At this conference it was agreed to
organize a meeting at the 1994 International Congress of Applied
Psychology in Madrid (Spain) to found an International Health
Psychology Society.
As a consequence, a group met at this conference with
representatives from IAAP, APA, the European Health Psychology
Society (EHPS), the Japanese Health Psychology Society, Australia
and Canada. A provisionary board was formed consisting of H.
Motoaki (Japan) president, Robert Kaplan (USA), vice-president,
Stan Maes (Europe) vice-president and among others Brian
Oldenburg (Australia), T. Takirawa (Japan), K. Noguchi (Japan),
G. Rodriguez (Mexico), E. Greenglass (Canada) as members.
At the same conference, it was agreed that:
1. meetings should allow intensive interaction between
international participants. As a consequence, membership should
be very selective;
2. meetings should take place as satellite meetings to IUPS and
IAAP-meetings;
3. meetings should be organized around specific problems of
topics which are of interest from an international point of view.
Dr. Esther Greenglass agreed to organize the first conference at
Montreal in 1996. At this conference the future of the Society
should be discussed and a board be formed for the next 4 years.
We consider the participants of that conference as charter
members of the new society.
The International Society of Health Psychology Research
(ISHPR) is a global association of health psychologists who are
devoted to promote scientific attempts at understanding the
behavioral causes of illness as well as predicting and
facilitating health behavior change.
Members are psychologists who are actively engaged in research
and promotion of issues relating to health psychology in
countries all over the world. The Society supports international
exchange of information and collaboration on theoretical and
empirical research and, in particular, culturally sensitive
research.
Homepage of the ISHPR
International Society of Health Psychology
Research
Last Update: January 17, 1998.
