ModuleFacilitating Health Behaviour Change (level 6)

Biopsychosocial model of health and health beliefs; health psychology; deficit and affirming models of health behaviour, facilitating and inhibiting factors; predicting risk behaviour; policy drivers and practice guidelines; research and evidence based interventions for health behaviour change; ethical practice; sustainable approaches to health behaviour change

On successful completion, you will be able to:

• Critically evaluate the biopsychosocial nature of health and human behaviour and apply to practice.
• Critically examine a range of theories of health behaviour and behaviour change, including both deficit and affirmation models.
• Demonstrate detailed knowledge and understanding of a range of evidence based interventions, designed to influence health behaviour.
• Demonstrate a critical awareness of the ethical debates around personal and state responsibility for health and wellbeing.
• Critically appraise policy drivers and practice guidance in relation to sustainable health behaviour change at both macro and micro level.

Indicative Core Bibliography

• Central Office of Information (COI) (2009)Communications and Behaviour Change. London: The Stationery Office.
• Conner,M., Norman,P. (2005) Predicting health behaviour: research and practice with social cognition models. 2nd ed. Maidenhead: Open University Press.
• Holland, S. (2008) Public Health Ethics. Cambridge: Polity.
• French, D., Vedhara, K., Kaptein, A., Weinman, J. (2010) Health Psychology. 2nd ed. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
• Mason, P., Butler, C.C. (2010) Health Behaviour Change. 2nd ed. London: Churchill Livingstone.
• Nuffield Council on Bioethics (2007) Public Health: ethical issues. Cambridge: Nuffield Council on Bioethics.
• Rollnick, S., Miller, W.R., Butler, C.C. (2008) Motivational Interviewing in Health Care: helping patients change behaviour. London: Guilford Press.
• British Journal of Health Psychology
• Health Promotion International