Health Behaviour Change

Health Behaviour Change

Do you have a health behavior you would like to improve? Maybe you would like to stop smoking, improve your diet, increase your fitness level, or try to remember to floss your teeth on a daily basis? Or perhaps you know someone else who wants to change a health behavior? For this assignment, we would like you to prepare a plan to change a health behavior of your choice.

Use the behavior change strategies and models of health behavior laid out in your textbook to write a brief (1-3 pages) plan for changing the behavior. In your plan, please apply both cognitive and behavioral strategies described in chapters 6-8 of your textbook (e.g., positive reinforcement; stimulus control).

How might you go about changing, or helping someone else change, the particular health behavior you chose? Note: Ensure that you address models that will aid your target population with changing the behaviour and not models that merely predict behaviour change. For example, the theory of planned behaviour predicts the likelihood of an individual changing a behaviour but it does not aid in the actual behaviour change intervention. Using models that predict an individual’s likelihood of changing a behaviour can still be used to supplement your behaviour change plan. P