Behavior Change Project : Theoretical Analysis

The Transtheoretical is a theoretical model of behavior change that integrates model of key concepts from other theories. This model is widely used by professionals to effectively promote health behavior change. This model describes how an individual modifies a certain behavior – such as smoking. TTM uses the stages of change as the central concept that integrates the most powerful principles and processes of change from leading theories of counseling and behavior change. The stages of change are pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance, and termination. Studies related to change have found that individuals go through series of stages when modifying behavior. Processes of change work

The Health Belief Model is commonly used for health promotion and health education. Its’ underlying concept is that health behavior is explained by perception of the disease and the strategies available to lower its occurrence. There are four perceptions of the HBM, which are perceived seriousness, perceived benefit, perceived susceptibility and perceived barriers. In addition to that, more constructs are added to health belief model that includes motivating factor, cues to action and self-efficacy. Each of these constructs in combination or individually, could be used to determine health behavior. The HBM also provides guidelines for the program development allowing planners to address reasons for non-compliance with recommended health action. The health belief model is a process used to promote healthy behavior among individuals who may be at risk of developing adverse health outcomes. A person must gauge their perceptions of severity and susceptibility of developing a disease. Then it is essential to feel vulnerable by these perceptions. Environmental factors can play a role as well as cues to action such as media, and close friends. In order to determine that taking action will be meaningful, the benefits to change must be weighed, against the barriers to change behavior (Green & Murphy, 2014).

I chose to do my behavior change project on improving my diet. I put my own little twist on it with the way I measured my success and I had to supplement it to reach my goals, but I feel that it was done really well. My goal was at the end of the four weeks to be able to run 3.1 miles in 18:45. I have run times close to this before, but that was a couple of years ago. At the beginning of this project my time for 3.1 miles was 20:36. I knew that if I was committed and worked really hard that I would be able to do it though. I chose to measure my behavior change this way due to the fact that I have a very busy life and I am on the high school cross country team. I figured I would already be running each week and I have a race every week that I can measure my time against my goal. So I was just trying to save some time in my schedule by partially combining two activities.

At the beginning of the spring semester, when I read the syllabus for the Models of psychotherapy class assignments, the one that took my attention was about behavioral change exercise. I thought, this exercise could help me through my high temper combined with my anger issues by screaming all the time my family. In all my college experience this was the specific project I was really looking forward to complete. Not just for doing my homework, but also because I was thinking this will be really beneficial for my family well been and my own harmony.

While behavior change isn't easy, it can be made more manageable through the use of effective time management and scheduling. I have a bad habit in the form of procrastination, and I tended to procrastinate and postpone a lot of things in my life, including the activities I undertook for my behavior change project. By taking part in this project, I have learned that in order to accomplish my goals and fulfill my obligations, I need to set times aside for doing my different activities. By applying this attitude to both the project and other aspects in my life, I have managed to mitigate my procrastination and accomplish my objectives in a timelier

The behavior I have chosen to do my modification program on is increasing the amount of time I work out every time I go to the gym until I reach my target goal. My target goal is to work out for an hour and half every time I go to the gym in the morning. When I go to the gym I will be taking a stop watch to time the amount of time I work out to verify that I reached my goal as well as mark my calendar every day that I go stating how long I worked out for. To make sure I was committed to the goal I wrote down six reasons/benefits of making this behavior change that are both short term and long term. They are feeling better about myself throughout the day, getting to wear the dress I want to be able to fit by my birthday on July 24th, increasing my endurance for marathons, improving my mood, sleeping better, also something to enjoy doing with my husband. There are many more but these are the ones I placed on my bathroom mirror, on my desk lamp at work, on my dashboard in my car, the table next to my front door that holds my gym bag and shoes, on my fridge and in my husband’s truck in case he drives. I also let my husband know my goal and also invited him to come with me so he could monitor that I am actually sticking with my plan daily. I also had stated the table next to the door holds my gym bag and shoes so if I was to walk outside I automatically see them there taunting me to take them and go to the gym. I also put a reminder on my phone each day of my goal and why it

There are many criticisms of the Health Belief Model in its effectiveness of predicting and changing health behaviours. A review commissioned by NICE (2006), could not find any substantial evidence that planned interventions to change health behaviours, using this model, were successful and found it simplistic in its’ design. It discussed the fact that the Health Belief Model relied on people acting rationally; it did not fully take into account how their demographic and socio-economic status may influence their decisions and how their emotional and subconscious state can have an impact on their

The model of behavior change, better known as the stages of change, features six stages: precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance and termination (Wood& Cato,2012). When working with a client counselors must help the client successfully work through all six stages in order for the client to be considered “fixed”. However, when working with a client it is not unusual for the client to be in different stages for different problems or concerns. When working through the six states of changes counselors utilize the four principles of change which are express empathy, developing discrepancy, roll with resistance and support self-efficacy (Wood& Cato,2012). In the following scenario I will be demonstrating the use of the four

The Health Belief Model is another health behavior theory. It states that health behavior is determined by the individual’s beliefs and perceptions about a disease and the strategies that decrease its occurrence (Hayden, 2014). Some of the factors that contribute to the individual’s perception are knowledge, attitude, belief,

In order for health education to be successful, it is imperative to fully understand how behavior can change in an instant. Health education depends on using the proper theories and models. This paper will address the theories and models used in health education, the importance of the theories, as well as real world examples and information from models used in health education.

The Transtheoretical Model lays out stages a person goes through for change. In this case it is making positive changes to prevent childhood obesity. The stages are

Middle range theories are easy to apply. They can guide nursing care, change conditions to help improve nursing care. These theories can help interpret behavior and situations. They also help to understand relations between diagnosis, interventions, and outcomes (McEwen & Wills, 2014). The Integrated Theory of Health Behavior Change is a new midrange theory. It utilizes social, behavior and bioscience theories. The application of this theory allows health behavior change in a health care setting. Knowledge promotion, self-regulation, and social facilitation are essential to change the health behavior (Ryan, 2009).

The Health Belief model focuses on how a person’s perception affects their actions to change (Edberg, 2015). The individual has to feel like their life is under imminent threat of death, if their health behavior remains

During the first two weeks of the intervention phase, I completed my sub goal of going to the gym 2 times for 45 minutes. Weeks 3 and 4 proved unsuccessful as I was unable to increase my attendance rate to reach my next goal of 3 times per week. Between weeks 4 and 5, I made a modification to my plan, which was much needed and was more tailored to my needs. After this change was made I reach the last two sub goals and my ultimate goal of exercising for at least 1 hour, 3 times per week. Through recognizing possible obstacles, understanding my ABC’S, and developing interventions and a plan I was able to successfully complete my self change project and have continued to record my progress and maintain my exercise schedule. Coinciding with the

The Health Belief Model is a theoretical framework that helps understand how certain people make lifestyle choices. There are six constructs that are apart of the Health Belief Model. The first one is, perceived severity, this construct perceives how severe or intense the health threat is. Perceived susceptibility is another construct, and it is the understanding of the likelihood of getting