The Handbook of Applied Topics in Health Psychology provides students and trainees in clinical health and health promotion with a selection of topical chapters by prominent Australian health psychologists who are working in the field as researchers, educators and clinicians. With in-depth, critical and comprehensive examination of specialized topics in health psychology, the handbook addresses both theoretical and methodological considerations and also elucidates applied techniques to illustrate a particular evidence-based therapy or approach. Its discrete sections cover core topics in health psychology, from substance use and misuse to enhancing health behaviours and adjusting to chronic illness.   Offering a much-needed contextualization of health psychology for Australasian students, this is a valuable fresh resource for postgraduate trainees, while with its state-of-the-art coverage of a broad range of issues it will be required reading for Health College members as well as a range of practitioners working in related fields.