Understanding health behavior is a critical foundation for successful health promotion and health education programs. Yet many texts on health behavior theory tend to be encyclopedic in nature, making learning dry and tedious for students.
Theory in Health Promotion Research and Practice: Thinking Outside the Box is a different kind of health promotion theory book. It offers a more critical perspective of existing health promotion theories and challenges the student to create new theoretical frameworks for understanding human health and wellbeing. This unique text guides the reader to reflect on the process of thinking theoretically and provides practical strategies for applying theory to research and practice. The author employs a narrative perspective and writes in an informal, first-person style, making this an engaging text that students will enjoy reading.
Key Features:
- Guides students to take a critical look at current theories and builds critical thinking skills.
- Numerous examples of concepts, strategies, and procedures are woven throughout along with charts, diagrams, and graphs to help visualize abstract concepts and relationships.
- Offers step-by-step strategies on how to apply theory to quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods research as well as to program planning and evaluation.
- Includes segments containing the author’s personal reflections on the complexities inherent in the practice of theory, which serve to bring the material to life in an engaging way.
- Additional resources for the instructor, including PowerPoint slides and a discussion guide, are available online.
