Impact Of The Theory Of Planned Behavior

The target population is African American adolescent fathers. Young African American fathers are face with many adversities. Culturally biased stereotypes, violence within the home and community, scarce economic resources and support, perceived biased by social workers, along with joblessness are some of the adversities experienced by this population (Hall, 2015, Icard, 2014,). One concern of African American adolescent fathers who are low income is the level of their involvement with their children. In addition to poverty, many of these fathers are challenge developmentally and socially. Developmentally, adolescence is a stage that is typically emotionally, social and physically challenging (Erikson ?). Socially the effects of racism disadvantage

This behavior change project has become a huge part of my everyday life. I lost sight of how important staying in shape affects my overall mental state along with my physical well-being. Having a life that consists of so many activities such as going to school, working, and maintaining a full and happy relationship with the people I care about is hard to balance with just making time for myself. That is why keeping this three day a week workout regime over the past five weeks has been so important; it made me realize that I can make time to focus on just working on myself, and in turn, improve all other aspects of my life. Realizing of course that there are many people in this world that have real life health problems that they seek professional help for. These changes in their lives require a system or a theory that must be applied to develop a strategic an organized way to regulate or change their behavior.

In this class we’ve learned that both Behavior Theory and Cognitive Behavior Theory both help explain human behavior through an A-B-C model or method. What are the A-B-Cs of Cognitive Behavior Theory?

There are three different styles of recovery initiations according to White and Kurtz (2006). These three styles include quantum (transformational change), conscious incremental change (stage dependent process of change), and drift (gradual reduction of usage). An addict at any point can experience any of these or all three in time. Since addiction can arise from multiple different contextual issues, such as cultural, personal, or familial, recovery experiences can become just as unique (White & Kurtz, 2006). Despite the lack of literature supporting the stages of change model deriving from the conscious incremental change style of recovery (West, 2005), it is still one of the most popular styles studied and used among researchers and clinicians

The key predisposing factor that influences homeless veteran’s poor choice of diet is their perceived lack of control. For this reason, the constructs of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) can be used to help understand and determine the beliefs that stimulate this behavior. Previous studies have shown that homeless veterans’ exhibit constant worry over perceived lack of control in regards to diet choice (Rojas-Guyler et al., 2014), and perceived control is a major construct of the TPB. The TPB asserts that intention and perceptions of capability will govern the likelihood that individuals will execute a particular behavior (McDermott et al., 2015). Consequently, homeless veterans will display a strong intention to eat the recommended daily

Over the course of my behavior change project, I ran into several obstacles and the outcome was not quite what I had expected. There ae a few things that I learned during this project from the outrageous cost of healthy food, to what I really struggle with in terms of heathy eating. I started with the intention of eating healthy, but towards the end of the first month, I realized just how costly that can be because I am but a poor college student on a tight budget and sadly I burned a lot of my food budget on fruits and veggies. That was quite an eye opener for me. I also learned that it was not always the content of my meals, but also the size. My wife is much smaller than me and I really started to watch how she eats as opposed to how I eat. Her serving sizes were always much smaller. This taught me a thing or two about what I should be putting on my plate. I also know now that pizza is literally my kryptonite. I know I am doing this BCP, I know I want to lose weight, I know that I want to be healthy, but when I get around pizza I am like a drug addict that can only focus on my drug (pizza). I need to format my lifestyle to stay away from pizza places as much as humanly possible because I will it until it hurts.

Transtheoretical Model, Integrates processes and principles of change from across major intervention theories. It was originally developed to look at the process of extinguishing behaviors (like smoking). Now also used to look at acquisition of behavior. It is based on idea of stopping or changing a behavior (health risk). In general it is step by step process of implementing behavioral change in a person. It is really hard for diabetic patients to maintain control of the diabetes, they have the fear of developing/undergoing cardiomyopathy, chronic kidney disease, amputations, and retinopathy as they age, and disabling them in what might have been productive and enjoyable years. The transtheoretical model has been utilized numerous times

Medication adherence is the concept of complying with a prescribed medication without deviation. Working on an inpatient floor with chronically ill children who take multiple medications on a daily basis is very challenging. Access to resources, education on medications, motivation to comply with medication regimens, and the capability of patients and families to obtain the prescribed medications are all factors that can affect adherence. Justice and beneficence are two other factors that can play a role in medication adherence. The focus of this paper will be on medication adherence in chronic patient populations. The Theory of Planned Behavior will be used as the basis of the framework for this paper.

The philosophy of cognitive behavioral therapy is that “think and feeling are connected people are creative (Halbur & Halbur, 2015, p.47)”. The key aspects of theory are to challenge the irrational beliefs that we hold about ourselves. Aaron Beck the primary founder of cognitive behavior theory assumed that people can control how they feel and what they think. He believed that our inner thoughts and beliefs affected how we are affected on the outside. One of the key concepts is that the client’s dysfunctional thinking can be derived from an erroneous internal process or bias.

There is a biblical text that states, “when I want to do right I do wrong”. Ok, so where am I going with this discussion? No one perfect….. Yes, surprise not one person falls into the perfect category. So, now, that the playing field is leveled; let’s play, shall we.

According to the Department of Health and Human Services (2015) (HHS), physical activity generally refers to any body movement that improves one’s health by working their muscles. Physical activity can range from walking to running to doing yoga. However, the lack of physical activity is becoming an increasingly prevalent health problem in the world today, particularly women in developing countries. Regular physical activity is vital in women’s health to prevent many of the leading causes of death linked with insufficient physical activity. Cardiovascular disease is one of the leading causes of death for women around the world, accounting for one-third of deaths. Also, cardiovascular disease accounts for “half

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

Cognitive Behavior theory (CBT) is a generic theory that is most popular and utilized through ought the world of counseling. Similarly, this particular theorical approach works with mostly all types of counseling issues and concerns. However when working with families and couples, CBT focus more so on the emotional responses of each individual member (Wetchler & Hecker, 2015). Nonetheless, CBT and family therapy are also therapies that work well with diversity of race ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender identifications. Therefore, in using this role model it is important that therapists maintain cultural competency (Sue, 2006), worldviews biases when using CBT, in working with multicultural families.

When considering health psychology it is important to recognise the various models it is made up of. The basis of this essay will be to take a look at the health belief model and the theory of planned behaviour, considering their historical origins, the positives and negatives of applying these approaches and examples of when they have been used. After some analysis it may offer some insight into possible improvements that could be implemented from further research. Also included will be an overview of how the models compare to each other and critical evaluation of research from this field.

Classroom management can be based on a number of researched theories or models. Research has shown that when incidents requiring behaviour to be managed increase, learning will decrease (Funnell, 2009, p. 482), therefore highlighting the importance for the teacher to implement successful strategies to restrict problem behaviour. This Essay will discuss strengths and weaknesses of three possible theories a teacher can use to manage a classroom and the student’s behaviour. The theories to be discussed will include; Goal Centered Theory, Cognitive behavioural theory and Choice theory.