Assoc. Prof. Anna Aleksandrova-Karamanova presents three new publications from the Practical Health Psychology series. The publications discuss important new research findings with broad applicability in clinical practice, which can help specialists and patients with the treatment and better management of conditions such as anxiety, type 2 diabetes, and various chronic illnesses.
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1. How new insights into stress can help calm the worried mind, by Assoc. Prof. Bart Verkuil, Department of Clinical Psychology, Leiden University, the Netherlands, and the PEP Group psychology and psychotherapy practice in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, presents the new Generalized Unsafety Theory of Stress (GUTS).
2. If medicine is a team game, patients should play too: a psychological perspective on patient engagement, by Prof. Guendalina Graffigna, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Italy, presents the recently proposed Patient Health Engagement Model, which traces four phases of patient adaptation to chronic illness.
3. How to support patients to lose weight and better manage their type 2 diabetes, by Assoc. Prof. Leah Avery, Teesside University, UK, presents the low-calorie diet and rapid weight-loss approach in newly diagnosed (within 6 years) patients with type 2 diabetes, with which nearly half of patients achieve remission.
"Practical Health Psychology" is one of the six official publications of the European Health Psychology Society. Through short pieces by leading researchers and experts across the various branches of health psychology, the series aims to introduce practitioners in medicine, psychology, social work, and related fields, as well as students in those disciplines, to the latest scientific advances in the field.
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About Assoc. Prof. Anna Aleksandrova-Karamanova
Assoc. Prof. Anna Aleksandrova-Karamanova is the national editor for Bulgaria of "Practical Health Psychology" and the national delegate for Bulgaria to the European Health Psychology Society. She is a researcher at the Department of Psychology of the Institute for Population and Human Studies — Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and academic secretary of the Health and Counseling Psychology Section of the Bulgarian Society of Psychologists.