Transtheoretical Model Originators of the Transtheoretical Model The transtheoretical model was devised in the 1980s by authors, James Prochaska and Carlo DiClemente. This model was developed to explain the concepts and ideas behind how a person attempts to make changes related to addictive behaviors(Hayden, 2013). The transtheoretical model explains a person’s experience with changing a behavior over a period of at least six months. After all, change is not a single event; it is a challenging process
“The role of behavior in health,” (2017) discussed the key role for behavior in health, provided a range of psychological models and how behavior can be understood in relation to individual beliefs. Dr. Ogden also discussed how eating behavior is a key behavior and demonstrated how psychological theories such as cognition models, the developmental model and a weight concern model of eating behavior, can be utilized to describe and explain why people eat what they eat. Behavior is most linked to illness
changes. These models of health change are usually based on stage models of behavioural change. These models provide us with an approach to help us in understanding, predicting and changing health behaviours (Prochaska and Velicer, 1997). For the purpose of this assignment I chose to adopt a healthier lifestyle by engaging in exercise 4 times a week as well as eating healthier. Throughout this personal reflection, I will be evaluating my experience of behavioural change in regards to the models of behavioural
Healthy People 2020 is a science-based program administered by the US government’s Department of Health and Human Services. The program’s vision is an America in which all people live long, healthy lives through improving health, education and healthy lifestyle choices. It attempts to do this with four 10-year national goals and objectives. 1) Realizing “high quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death.” 2) Achieve health parity, eliminate differences