Book Title: Critical Health Psychology: Foundations, Approaches and Applications
Edited by Sarah Riley; Kathryn McGuigan; Eleanor Brittain; Gareth Terry; Aorangi Kora; Siobhán Healy-Cullen; Clifford van Ommen; and Don Baken
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Book Description: This accessible open-access textbook employs a critical health psychology perspective to health psychology to promote critical reflexive thinking and learning about health and wellbeing, within a social justice framework. The book navigates the reader through a comprehensive examination of contemporary research and theoretical developments in the field of critical health psychology. Organised into three distinct parts, the book radically orients readers to new ways to think about health.
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This accessible open-access textbook employs a critical health psychology perspective to health psychology to promote critical reflexive thinking and learning about health and wellbeing, within a social justice framework. The book navigates the reader through a comprehensive examination of contemporary research and theoretical developments in the field of critical health psychology. Organised into three distinct parts, the book radically orients readers to new ways to think about health through:
- incorporating a conscious reflection on and examination of how health is theorised, understood, treated, and promoted for individuals, communities, and societies;
- using a critical psychology lens that centres issues of power and meaning making, including gendered, Indigenous, and intersectional frameworks;
- an openness to, and engagement with, theoretical and methodological pluralism, including quantitative, qualitative and Indigenous approaches to explore people’s experiences and understandings of health and illness;
- explicit attention to socio-political contexts;
- and considering the application of knowledge beyond behaviour change, to social change including community-level (community-led interventions, activism and advocacy) and societal level (e.g., policy, wider discourses).
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Critical Health Psychology: Foundations, Approaches and Applications Copyright © 2025 by the authors is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
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Critical Health Psychology: Foundations, Approaches and Applications Copyright © 2025 by the authors is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
This book was published by Massey University via the Council of Australasian University Librarians Open Educational Resources Collective. The online version is available at https://oercollective.caul.edu.au/critical-health-psychology
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Recommended citation: Riley, S., McGuigan, K., Brittain, E., Terry, G., Kora, A., Healy-Cullen, S., van Ommen, C., & Baken, D. (Eds.). (2025). Critical health psychology: Foundations, approaches and applications. Massey University. https://oercollective.caul.edu.au/critical-health-psychology
Recommended attribution: Critical health psychology: Foundations, approaches and applications by Riley, S., McGuigan, K., Brittain, E., Terry, G., Kora, A., Healy-Cullen, S., van Ommen, C., & Baken, D. (Eds.) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial 4.0 (CC BY-NC) Licence by Massey University
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