Abstract
Health psychology is an applied discipline that educators can teach in ways that are relevant to everyday life. This chapter covers what health psychology is and how health psychologists think (that is, it is not clinical psychology; it challenges the biomedical model; the mind and body interact; health psychology is everywhere). It also discusses key theories for predicting behaviour, behaviour change, sense-making in illness, and mind-body interactions focusing on stress and pain. Additionally, it describes the research questions asked and the main research methods, and presents a toolkit illustrating how to think critically about research. Throughout, it describes many activities that educators can use in the classroom to get students thinking about health psychology, and how the discipline's ideas, theories, and methods are relevant to everyday life.