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TAKING THE TREATMENT : HOW CAN HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY HELP?

Professor John Weinman

 
When?
Tuesday 18 December 2012, 16.00 to 17.00
Where?
01AC02
Open to:
Public, Staff, Students
Speaker:
Professor John Weinman
The problem of poor adherence to treatment and advice is now recognised as a major problem in healthcare. In this presentation, there will be an overview of health psychology research which has examined the nature and causes of adherence failure, as well as the potential which this evidence offers for developing effective interventions to facilitate adherence. Using the distinction between unintentional and intentional non-adherence, a range of psychological determinants will be examined. The main focus of the talk will be on the role of illness and treatment beliefs as key determinants of intentional non-adherence, and Leventhal’s Self-Regulation model will provide the theoretical framework for this. In the final part of the talk, examples will be provided of successful intervention studies together with a discussion of key issues for future research.

Professor John Weinman
King's College London

John Weinman is Professor of Psychology as applied to Medicine at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. In his research he has investigated the influence of psychological process on health, illness and health care delivery. The main focus of this has been on the ways in which patients’ beliefs about their illness and treatment affect self-regulation and self-management across a wide range of major physical health problems. This work has also resulted in the development of a number of widely used measures and cognitively-based interventions, which have been shown to be effective in improving adherence to treatment, recovery and quality of life.

He also teaches undergraduate and postgraduate medical and psychology students, and is the author of a large number of books and papers in peer review journals. He has been instrumental in developing Health Psychology as a discipline and a profession within the UK and Europe, and was the founding editor of Psychology & Health : an international journal. He currently holds visiting professorships in Denmark and Ireland, and was recently awarded a lifetime achievement award and an Honorary Fellowship by the British Psychological  Society. He is a Fellow of the European Psychological Society, the American Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, and the Academy of Social Sciences

Date:
Tuesday 18 December 2012
Time:

16.00 to 17.00


Where?
01AC02
Open to:
Public, Staff, Students
Speaker:
Professor John Weinman