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From February 27th to March 1st, 1997, the SPPS organised the “2º Congresso Nacional de Psicologia da Saúde” (2nd National Congress on Health Psychology). The first congress was held in Lisbon (south-centre of Portugal) and the second in Braga (North of Portugal). The main objectives of the congress were to establish the state of the art of the field in Portugal.
More than 400 people participated in the congress with more than 100 presentations. Six people from different fields and geographic areas participated as invited speakers with conferences that presented, critical connections for psychological interventions on health, the future of psychological intervention in oncology, the state of the art in health psychology, psychology and public health, and brain and behaviour - Cynthia Bellar President of the Health Psychology Division of the American Psychology Association, Marie Jonsthon from European Health Psychology Society, and Estrella Durá from Valência University- Spain, Isabel Leal from the Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada- Lisboa, Portugal, Teresa McIntyre from Universidade do Minho- Braga, Portugal, and Martins da Silva from The Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar- Porto, Portugal. Two workshops oriented by Cynthia Bellar and Marie Johnston were held the day before to the congress.
About 40 from the more than 100 presentations were edited in the “Actas do 2º Congresso Nacional de Psicologia da Saúde” (see in books), with more than 500 pages, which were distributed on the first day of the congress. |