Student-centred pedagogy in applied health behaviour change

This chapter uses a student-centred pedagogy to teach about health behaviour theories and their application. I describe the case study approach to enable students to understand the transtheoretical model and behaviour change techniques appropriate to the different stages. I also describe generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) for role-playing motivational interviewing. Additionally, I offer teaching strategies for active, self-directed, problem-solving and collaborative learning. Assignment ideas and examination questions are offered in relation to the Health Action Process Approach, the Health Belief Model and the theories of reasoned action/planned behaviour to understand health-related choices. In addition I propose 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. Digital literacy exercises are specified. The use of discussion boards and forums is also encouraged for interactive engagement of the material on health behaviour change.