DHP Core Purpose
- To promote the advancement and sharing of knowledge of health psychology, pure and applied
DHP Values
We aim to work with:
- A collaborative stance towards our sibling Divisions, Sections and Branches of the BPS
- Highest standards of professionalism and ethical behaviour
- Rigour, fairness, honesty and integrity
- Transparency
Our Strategic Goals
To support the ongoing advancement of the standards of training in health psychology by:
- Promoting the different training routes to Stage 2 qualification
- Working with education providers to promote the value of health psychology training
To identify, and where possible execute ways of supporting and promoting high quality health psychology research, by:
- Making more use of technology to share our research both with our members, but also to promote our work externally
- Publishing HPU to share our work with our membership
- Running an annual DHP conference to share cutting edge research
To support CPD of members at various levels of career and experience, by:
- Informing members of new developments and changes in contexts in which they work
- Encouraging and supporting the ability of members to share and develop their knowledge and experience
- Reviewing and developing opportunities for CPD
To increase the profile and influence of health psychology with the public, policy-makers, healthcare commissioners, employers and other healthcare professionals, by:
- Developing a portfolio of evidence-based health psychology examples
- Enhancing and encouraging health psychology-related public engagement work
- Enhancing existing (and developing new) partnerships to share our expertise and increase our influence nationally and internationally
- Working collegiately and collaboratively with other Divisions
Our Vision
- To be the public, authoritative voice of health psychology