“Fancy a wee walk?” – Dyadic behaviour change support for walking after stroke
By Stephan Dombrowski, University of New Brunswick, Canada Walking away from death Walking is one of the most basic forms of human […]
Category: Social Support
How new insights into stress can help calm the worried mind
Bart Verkuil, Department of Clinical Psychology, Leiden University, The Netherlands and PEP Group, Noordwijk, The Netherlands. “What if I get infected and […]
How to support patients to lose weight and better manage their type 2 diabetes
By Leah Avery, Teesside University, UK. Type 2 diabetes was previously considered a progressive condition, with an inevitable need for insulin therapy, […]
Telling stories about caring for others
By Irina Todorova, Health Psychology Research Center in Sofia, Bulgaria Taking care of aging loved ones, who are perhaps in frail health, […]
Move more, sit less at work: let’s not sit to talk about it
By Stuart Biddle, University of Southern Queensland, Australia I’m writing this blog on Valentine’s Day! The health promotion charity in Australia, Bluearth, […]
Social support and health behavior: How to move from well-intentioned to skilled support
By Urte Scholz, University of Zurich and Gertraud (Turu) Stadler, University of Aberdeen Social support seems to be an exclusively positive thing. […]
