Critical health psychology approaches are sensitive to issues of power and benefit from theoretical and methodological pluralism key areas in critical health psychology include exploring peoples experiences of health and illness working with people in marginalised or vulnerable groups to provide insights achieving change and social justice in communities through interventions and activism engaging with arts based approaches to researching health and illness examining how health is . Critical health psychologists are interested in advancing new psychological understandings of health and illness like applied social psychologists they are also committed to finding ways to . Mainstream health psychology models are allied with official health ideology and policy stressing self control self regulation and responsible low cost health citizenship discussion of psycho political validity and of the use of a wider community of meanings and theories is welcome and moves beyond narrow disciplinary concerns by developing epistemological self critique reflection and critique of psychology and its uses in public health is needed for theoretical and morally reasons and . Critical health psychologists are interested in advancing new psychological understandings of health and illness like applied social psychologists they are also committed to finding ways to contribute to the transformation of an unhealthy world murray and poland 2006