Stages & Processes of Health Behavior Change
This stage of change describes someone who is aware of a health problem and intends to take action eventually.
What is the contemplation stage?
This approach to counseling, developed by Carl Rogers, emphasizes genuineness, unconditional positive regard, and empathic understanding.
What is Rogerian (person-centered) counseling?
This law states that behaviors can be changed by their consequences.
What is the Law of Effect?
These are a person’s thoughts or perceptions at a particular moment in time.
What are cognitions?
Nutrition counseling and education to support a healthy pregnancy should begin at this time.
When women are able to or are planning to become pregnant.
This stage of change describes someone who is ready to commit, set goals, and develop a plan of action.
What is the preparation stage?
Motivational Interviewing (MI) was originally developed from work with clients dealing with this type of behavior.
What are addictive behaviors, such as alcoholism?
This self-management skill involves keeping records of eating behaviors to help identify and control them.
What is self-monitoring?
A client who says, “I’ve been packing a healthy lunch for a week, but it probably won’t make a difference,” is demonstrating this type of cognitive distortion.
What is discounting the positive?
During the preschool years, these two influences have the greatest impact on what children eat.
What are family and cultural practices?
This term describes the confidence a person has in their ability to adopt and maintain new healthful behaviors.
What is self-efficacy?
This core skill of Motivational Interviewing communicates acceptance, understanding, and empathy toward clients.
What is reflective listening?
In Pavlov’s research, food placed in a dog’s mouth was an example of this type of stimulus.
What is an unconditioned stimulus?
This term describes a person’s confidence in their ability to perform and maintain a health behavior over time.
What is self-efficacy?
This stage of growth is marked by awkwardness, self-awareness, and experimentation.
What is adolescence (ages 13–19 years)?
This process represents the belief that one can change and the commitment to act on that belief.
What is self-liberation?
In the DARN acronym used in Motivational Interviewing, the letter “R” stands for this.
What are reasons?
This type of learning occurs through observing and imitating others.
What is modeling?
This is the most influential and effective way to strengthen self-efficacy.
What are performance accomplishments?
Among older adults, this condition affects about two of every five nursing home residents.
What is malnutrition?
This is the primary purpose of the Transtheoretical Model (TTM) in health behavior counseling.
What is to guide the timing and content of interventions for better health?
This model was developed to explain and predict the use of preventive health services.
What is the Health Belief Model?
This analysis seeks to control or limit the stimuli or cues that trigger eating behaviors.
What are antecedents of behavior?
This event involves unlearning maladaptive associations between stimuli and responses while learning new, healthier ones.
What is cognitive restructuring?
This disease commonly occurs alongside diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia and together, this cluster is known as this.
What is obesity, and what is metabolic syndrome?