Lidia Santora
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
e-mail: lidia.santora@ntnu.no
There is no national society for health psychology in Norway, but a few researchers are very active.
Norway hosted EHPS cconference: The Social Dimension in Health, August 28, 1995 to August 30, 1995 in Bergen, Norway.
Education, training and professionalisation:
Health psychology can be studied both at master an PhD-level. This needs to be done in regular masters in psychology with a emphasis on health psychology.
Research:
There are no national journals on health psychology. Norwegian researchers are very internationalized and publish their work in international journals.
Reports:
I am a Professor in Clinical Health Psychology at the Department of Psychology, University of Crete, Greece. For more than a decade, I served as the Head of the Counselling Center for Students at the University of Crete. In addition, I served as Head of the Department of Psychology, University of Crete for two years. I currently collaborate with the University of Crete Medical School, and the Faculty of Nursing and the Dental School at the University of Athens, and I am actively involved in the activities of local associations for the support of patients suffering from cancer. I have been a member of the European Health Psychology Society since 2002 and I was the Greek National Delegate for several years (2004 – 2010). Also, I have helped in the organization of seven EHPS conferences as a Scientific Program Track Chair or as a member of the Scientific Committee, and I was the Chair of the Organizing Committee and President of the 25th EHPS Conference in Crete. For the last two years, I served as a co-opted member of the EHPS Executive Committee (National Delegate Officer). This year, I was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Society. My research interests include patient adaptation to chronic illness, the role of stress and related factors in health and illness, individual differences in health, self-regulation and dyadic regulation. Currently, I am a member of the editorial board in seven international journals and an Assoc. Editor of Translational Behavior Medicine. As President-Elect, I plan to focus on the strengthening of the international impact of the EHPS, as well as on the enhancement of the collaboration with local national health psychology societies/organizations.