Program Overview

Facilitating Health Behaviour Change (level 7)

Course Overview

The aim of this module is to enable you to critically analyse the nature of health behaviour and apply this knowledge and understanding to the facilitation of behaviour change based on a sound theoretical evidence base.

Course Details

• Location: Lancaster
• Duration: Part-time, Single Module
• Start date: Not Currently Scheduled to Run
• Entry Requirements: Programme specification (PDF)

Resources and Facilities

We are amongst the UK's leading health and science faculties and are proud of the high level of support we are able to offer to our students.

• We provide a wide range of high-quality courses supported by expert academic and clinical practice staff.
• If you join us you will enjoy great facilities and learn alongside caring, committed and experienced professionals.
• Our employment record is excellent.

Course Outline

Course Summary

• 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.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion, you will be able to:

• Demonstrate an advanced understanding of the biopsychosocial nature of health and human behaviour and apply to practice
• Critically analyse a range of theories of health behaviour and behaviour change, including both deficit and affirmation models
• Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge and understanding of a range of research and evidence based interventions, designed to influence health behaviour
• Apply ethical theories to a critical discussion of personal and state responsibility for health behaviour
• Critically analyse policy drivers and practice guidance in relation to sustainable health behaviour change at both macro and micro level, recognising inherent complexities and challenges

Indicative Bibliography

• 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.
• Marks, D.F., Murray, M.P., Evans, B., Estacio, E.V. (2011) Health Psychology: theory, research & practice. 3rd ed. London: Sage.
• 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.
• Thaler R and Sunstein C (2008), Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.
• British Journal of Health Psychology
• Health Promotion International

Entry Requirements

• Evidence of prior successful study at underpinning level.

Selection Criteria

• To be eligible to study this module you should be able to apply it to your practice.

Application Information

• The closing date for applications is 5 working days prior to the module start date or, if this is your first module, 5 working days prior to the induction date.

Student Finance

• We have a wide range of scholarships, bursaries, grants and funds available to support you throughout your studies with us.
• This includes the Cumbria Bursary - a non-repayable bursary designed to support first year students with a household income of less than £25,000.

Fees

• The tuition fees for CPD and short courses vary based on the intensity and length of the course.
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