The New Psychology of Health: Unlocking the Social Cure
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British Psychology Society Textbook of the Year 2020 Why do people who are more socially connected live longer and have better health than those who are socially isolated? Why are social ties at least as good for your health as not smoking, having a good diet, and taking regular exercise? Why is treatment more effective when there is an alliance between therapist and client? Until now, researchers and practitioners have lacked a strong theoretical foundation for answering such questions. This ground-breaking book fills this gap by showing how social identity processes are key to understanding and effectively managing a broad range of health-related problems. Integrating a wealth of evidence that the authors and colleagues around the world have built up over the last decade, The New Psychology of Health provides a powerful framework for reconceptualising the psychological dimensions of a range of conditions – including stress, trauma, ageing, depression, addiction, eating behaviour, brain injury, and pain. Alongside reviews of current approaches to these various issues, each chapter provides an in-depth analysis of the ways in which theory and practice can be enriched by attention to social identity processes. Here the authors show not only how an array of social and structural factors shape health outcomes through their impact on group life, but also how this analysis can be harnessed to promote the delivery of ‘social cures’ in a range of fields. This is a must-have volume for service providers, practitioners, students, and researchers working in a wide range of disciplines and fields, and will also be essential reading for anyone whose goal it is to improve the health and well-being of people and communities in their care.
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“Figure adapted from Haslam et al. (2018). new groups after the life transition.”
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“After the inductive analysis of psychological needs, as described in the results, the authors then explored the extent to which the data could, or could not, be understood through the social cure theoretical framework (Haslam et al., 2018).”
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Intimate intergroup contact across the lifespan
Marinucci, M., Maunder, R. D., Sanchez, K., Thai, M., McKeown, S., Turner, R. N., & Stevenson, C. (2020) · Journal of Social Issues · doi:10.1111/josi.12399 · Cited by 73 · see citing works
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The effects of social group interventions for depression: systematic review
Dingle, G. A., Sharman, L. S., Haslam, C., Donald, M., Turner, C., Partanen, R., Lynch, J., Draper, G., & van Driel, M. L. (2021) · Journal of Affective Disorders · doi:10.1016/j.jad.2020.11.125 · Cited by 54 · see citing works
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Self-citationStuart, A., Stevenson, C., Koschate, M., Cohen, J., & Levine, M. (2021) · British Journal of Health Psychology · doi:10.1111/bjhp.12536 · Cited by 48 · see citing works
Well-Being and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Esposito, C., Napoli, I. D., Agueli, B., Marino, L., Procentese, F., & Arcidiacono, C. (2021) · European Psychologist · doi:10.1027/1016-9040/a000468 · Cited by 58 · see citing works
Connecting to Community: A Social Identity Approach to Neighborhood Mental Health
Haslam, S. A., Fong, P., Haslam, C., & Cruwys, T. (2023) · Personality and Social Psychology Review · doi:10.1177/10888683231216136 · Cited by 58 · see citing works
“…informed by the social identity approach to health has found that group-based identification prevents the onset of depressive symptoms, protects people from stress and anxiety, and is generally associated with greater resilience (for reviews see Cruwys et al., 2014; C. Haslam et al., 2018).”
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“…by boosting immunity response (Madison, Shrout, Renna, & Kiecolt-Glaser, 2021), including increased social support, stress and loneliness reduction (Haslam et al., 2018; McNamara et al., 2021) and increased incidence of healthy behaviours such as not smoking, drinking less alcohol, eating a better…”
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“In fact, the mental health of participants was not related to either group identification or psychological need satisfaction, which was unexpected as group identification is known to be associated with a wide range of wellbeing and mental health outcomes (Jetten et al., 2014; Haslam et al., 2018).”
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Self-citationConstruction at Work: Multiple Identities Scaffold Professional Identity Development in Academia
Bentley, S. V., Peters, K., Haslam, S. A., & Greenaway, K. (2019) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00628 · Cited by 38 · see citing works
“…not only the contextual mechanics of identification, but also the importance of positive identification for healthy functioning and motivation in a broad range of domains (Jolanda et al., 2009; Jetten et al., 2012, 2015, 2017; Greenaway et al., 2015; Bentley et al., 2017; Haslam et al., 2018).”
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“Whilst this division of outcomes appears to neatly match the social cure mechanisms of connection, meaning, support, and agency (Haslam et al., 2018), some participants’ experiences were more clearly linked to identity processes than others.”
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“literature, identification is termed as a “social cure” (Haslam et al., 2018).”
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“, 2018); and exploring the health benefits of connecting isolated individuals with social groups (Haslam et al., 2018).”
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Self-citationSocial bonds are related to health behaviors and positive well-being globally
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Social Identity Mapping in Addiction Recovery (SIM-AR): extension and application of a visual method
Beckwith, M., Best, D. W., Savic, M., Haslam, C., Bathish, R., Dingle, G. A., Mackenzie, J., Staiger, P. K., & Lubman, D. I. (2019) · Addiction Research & Theory · doi:10.1080/16066359.2018.1544623 · Cited by 49 · see citing works
“One tool developed to examine the nature of an individual’s network of social group memberships is Social Identity Mapping (SIM; Cruwys et al. 2016) – a visual method capturing the groups a person belongs to, and their relationship CONTACT Melinda Beckwith melinda.psych@gmail.com Eastern Health Clinical School, Monash…”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialSelf-citation
- Authors
- Haslam, C., Jetten, J., Cruwys, T., Dingle, G. A., & Haslam, S. A.
- Affiliations
- The University of Queensland (AU)
- Venue
- Routledge eBooks
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2018-05-01
- OpenAlex
- W2883829232
- Cited by
- 748
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 95 · 2025: 114 · 2024: 77 · 2023: 78 · 2022: 66 · 2021: 102 · 2020: 135 · 2019: 54 · 2018: 24 · 2017: 3
- FWCI
- 90.39
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Routledge eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Social Sciences › Health › Health disparities and outcomes
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health, psychology, and well-being
- Keywords
- health psychology, social connectedness, social isolation, social ties, social cure, stress, trauma, aging, depression, addiction, eating behaviour, brain injury, pain, well-being
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