... In order to achieve their intervention goals, counselling health psychologists may choose from an array of intervention strategies and techniques: individual and group counselling, brief therapies, providing information and training, crisis intervention, stress management, motivational interview, guided imagery, behaviour analysis and modification, cognitive restructuring and many more. The majority of these techniques and strategies are based on the cognitive-behavioural model, which has been found really effective in treating many health conditions, including: cardiovascular disorders (e.g., Bellg, 2004;Gidron, Davidson, & Bata, 1999); neoplasms (e.g., Khazam, 1996;Spira & Reed, 2002); diabetes mellitus (e.g., Norris, Engelgau, & Narayan, 2001); HIV/ AIDS (e.g., Bor, du Plessis, & Russell, 2004;Bor & du Plessis, 1997;Chesney & Antoni, 2002); sexual health (e.g., Aarø et al., 2006); surgical procedures (e.g., Lang et al., 2000;Petry, 2000); renal disease (e.g., Griva & Newman, 2007); urological disorders (e.g., Nicolau, Toro, & Perez Prado, 1991); dermatology (e.g., Kent & Keohane, 2001;Papadopoulos, Walker, Aitken, & Bor, 2000); obstetrics (e.g., Klock, 2004); transplantation (e.g., Blumenthal et al., 2006) etc. Medical patients are rather interested in short-term and focused interventions that can facilitate their recovery, than long-term insight-oriented therapies . These requirements are typically met by behavioural (e.g., conditioning, operant conditioning, modeling), cognitive (e.g., selfmanagement, cognitive therapy), and cognitive-behavioural approaches (for more details, Bennett, 2000;Bennett, Conner, & Godin, 2004;Lorig, 1996 Rutter & Quine, 2002). ...