Student-centred pedagogy in applied health behaviour change

Marie L. Caltabiano

Chapter 7 in Teaching Health Psychology, 2026, pp 103-118 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter describes a student-centred pedagogy to teach health behaviour theories and their application. It describes the case study approach to enable students to understand the transtheoretical model and behaviour change techniques appropriate to the different stages. It also describes generative artificial intelligence (AI) for role-playing motivational interviewing. Additionally, it offers teaching strategies for active, self-directed, problem-solving, and collaborative learning. It offers assessment ideas regarding the health action process approach, the health belief model, and the theories of reasoned action/planned behaviour to understand health-related choices. In addition, it proposes several activities to achieve student AI fluency, including prompt engineering in generative AI to enhance understanding of concepts such as the subjective norm, protection motivation or implementation intentions through interactive questioning. Finally, it describes digital literacy exercises and encourages the use of discussion boards and forums for interactive engagement with materials on health behaviour change.

Keywords: Student-centred Learning; Behaviour Change; Health Behaviour Models; Digital Literacy; Artificial Intelligence Fluency; Teaching Strategies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035359851
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