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This handbook offers a practical guide for health psychologists seeking to develop and enhance their consultancy practice. Drawing on knowledge, skills and expertise of professionals in health across public, private and third sectors, it presents a robust framework enriched by 16 case studies and 11 perspectives on consultancy practice.
Featuring contributions from health psychologists, behavioural scientists, public health experts, and psychologists from other disciplines, the chapters illustrate how health psychology theory, evidence, and methods are applied through consultancy to real world health problems. Readers will explore consultancy processes including negotiation, contracting, managing and evaluating projects, with particular attention to ethical considerations and multidisciplinary collaboration. The book provides insights and practical strategies for meeting opportunities and challenges effectively.
Designed for health psychologists, trainee health psychologists, practice supervisors, educators and commissioners of consultancy in healthcare, this book is a must-read for anyone seeking to make a meaningful impact in health through consultancy.
List of contents
Part I: Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Case for Consultancy in Health Psychology.- Chapter 3: A Framework for Consultancy in Health Psychology.- Part II: Chapter 4: Ethics and the Consultancy Process.- Chapter 5: Multi-disciplinary Working in Consultancy: The Delicate Balance of Expertise, Confidence and Humility.- Chapter 6: Conducting Consultancy with Vulnerable Clients.- Chapter 7: The Sustainable Consultant.- Chapter 8: Consultancy in Practice: Navigating Boundaries.- Chapter 9: Don t Fall at the First Hurdle: Responding to Requests for Proposals.- Chapter 10: Starting a Health Psychology Consultancy.- Chapter 11: A How To Guide to Working in the Private Sector.- Chapter 12: Health Psychology Consultancy in Digital Health.- Chapter 13: Experiences of Health Psychology Consultancy in International Partnerships.- Part III: Chapter 14: Supporting Vaccine Uptake in Decision-making in Residential Services.- Chapter 15: Why Aren t People Attending? It s Good for Their Health!.- Chapter 16: Understanding High Antibiotic Prescribing Rates for Tailoring Public Health Campaigns.- Chapter 17: Increasing Awareness and Detection of Psychological Difficulties in People Undertaking Dialysis.- Chapter 18: Supporting Development of a National Memory Service for People Ageing with Intellectual Disability in Ireland.- Chapter 19: Group Intervention for Post-bariatric Surgery Patients.- Chapter 20: Hearts and Minds: Psychological Consultancy in Cardiac Rehabilitation.- Chapter 21: Delivering Healthcare Differently: Formal and Informal Negotiation and Contracting.- Chapter 22: Consultancy for Establishing a Multidisciplinary Rehabilitation Outpatient Clinic: The Medical Psychologist as Case Manager.- Chapter 23: Co-developing a Framework Addressing Self-stigma in People Living with HIV.- Chapter 24: Providing Health Psychology Expertise in a Local Co-produced Wellbeing Service.- chapter 25: Consultancy for Local Government: Behavioural Science in Self-management of Well-being.- Chapter 26: Everything Due an Hour Ago: Consultancy with a Government Department.- Chapter 27: Improving Corporate Health and Wellbeing: A Focus on Consultancy Evaluation.- Chapter 28: Evaluating Consultancy to a Health Project in Soweto, Johannesburg.- Chapter 29: Transforming Learning; Including Experiences of Transgender People in Health Care.- Chapter 30: Conclusion.
About the author
Roseanna Brady is a Chartered Psychologist and health psychologist. She has over 30 years’ experience as an independent consultant in business and healthcare including NHS teaching hospital trusts, local government, public health, health charities, and international private healthcare organisations.
Judit Varkonyi-Sepp is a HCPC-registered Health Psychologist and a Chartered Scientist, a clinician and research speciality lead in the UK National Health Service physical health care. Judit has over 30 years' experience in providing and commissioning consultancy in health care and public health in private, public, third sector organisations and at local and regional government levels.
Jan Smith is a HCPC registered Practitioner Psychologist and Health Psychologist with the British Psychological Society (BPS). She works as a Lecturer in Psychology at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU), which involves supporting the GCU Doctorate (DPsych) in Health Psychology, alongside Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) lead roles within her research, the BPS and GCU.
