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Caroline Tibbitts Application Assignment 5

Section 1: The Transtheoretical Model: developed regarding people’s behaviors and aims to intentional change through these constructs/stages.  Pre-contemplation stage- people are not yet looking to take action any time soon o Example in context: Someone knows they should eat healthier but has no desire or motivation to change the way they eat even in the near future.  Contemplation stage: People have a desire to change and are planning on starting soon. o Example in context: Someone wants to start a diet this week/month  Preparation stage- People begin to plan/ take action towards working to their behavior change. o Example in context: Someone wanting to start a diet begins planning their meals/grocery list for their diet.  Action stage: People have made adjustments to their behavior and have intention of continuing to. o Example in context: Someone begins to plan out and make their meals consistently that go with their diet.  Maintenance stage: People have kept their changed behavior for a long period of time - Example in context: Someone has kept their diet for a year now and plans to continue their diet and incorporate it into their lifestyle. Processes of Change:  Consciousness Raising: increasing awareness around a certain behavior. (ex: organizations going to a school to raise awareness about consequences of drug use)  Dramatic Relief: emotional responses to a behavior (negative or postive) (seeing a graphic car crash on an add about not texting and driving and getting scared)  Self-reevaluation: self-realization regarding a health behavior and realizing they want to participate in it. (ex: people realize the actual benefits of eating healthy and decide they want to go on a diet)  Environmental Reevaluation: Realizing how bad behaviors influence/ affect others (ex: parent stops smoking after realizing the smoke is hurting their kids)  Counterconditioning: replacing previous bad behaviors and decisions with better and healthier ones (ex: having a home cooked meal over eating fast food)  Contingency/ Reinforcement management: reinforcing behaviors with some sort of reward to encourage that behavior (ex: days when I work-out I let myself have my favorite snack but days I don’t work out I won’t)  Stimulus control: creating reminders and cues in your environment to encourage your changed behavior (ex: buying fruits and veggies to remind myself to eat them) Section 2: Justification for Chosen Constructs (At Least 3-4 Constructs) For my intervention, I will use the constructs of [construct 1], [construct 2], [construct 3]....

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I chose to use self-reevaltuion because I believe it is essential for the person to come to a personal realization of their bad behavior and have a genuine desire to change. Without real motivation to change, no outside intervention will change that person or their choices. This is probably the most important process to me because desiring to change is the driving motivation factor to really change someone for the better. One possible obstacle to this is trying to help the person keep their motivation through the whole changing process. Often people have strong motivation in the beginning but begin to lose it as the process gets hard. I chose to use counterconditioning because when we have an addictive or deep habit, we need to make sure we provide a better replacement to help make the changing process easier. This creates an easier transition by creating familiarity while also not going cold-turkey but still switching to better options. By using counterconditioning, the person can still have their wants satisfied through better and healthier choices. I chose to use reinforcement process because this is essential in making good connections and ties to the healthier option by rewarding them. While this isn’t necessary forever it is helpful to create a positive outlook on their new change in behavior. When the target population does a good job at keeping their behavior change, they can look forward to a reward for it. The only obstacle I see with this is that you eventually want the person to want to choose the healthy option for the sake of itself not for the reward they think they might get if they do. To make lasting change you want the person to develop a genuine desire for that health change strictly for the sake that they want to remain healthy.

Section 3: Intervention I will be targeting my boyfriend’s eating habits through using the below process to make a productive and long-lasting effect on his eating choices. I will guide him through the process to become motivated to change his diet as well as prepare meals with him. I will help him incorporate more fruits and veggies with the emphasis of more home cooked meals and less fast food. We will sit down and asses what he is currently eating and what foods he needs to begin including more. Next, we will begin planning out the weeks meals and making a grocery list to buy groceries. After, we will begin meal prepping (cutting up veggies or cookie meat to keep in the fridge) to make eating healthy on busier days still possible. We will include substitute treats such as healthy deserts or snacks to act as a reward or incorporation of a new lifestyle. This strict diet will last for a solid two weeks followed by a reevaluation at the end of the two weeks. After the two weeks, we will talk about how he feels, what he noticed, and what he liked about it. Then we will try to create a sustainable and realistic new lifestyle surrounding food.

Section 4: The Theory behind the Intervention  When I let my boyfriend to come to me about eating healthy, in my intervention, I am addressing the self-reevaluation process because I know that he has come to realize that he wants to change his eating habits and become healthier. This is important

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because I believe if the person does not really want to change themselves or their choices, then no amount of help or intervention will do anything. When I do replace his favorite fast-food meals with a healthier home cooked version of it in my intervention, I am addressing the counterconditioning process because I am helping him to replace previous unhealthy choices with healthier meals at home. When I allow my boyfriend to have a healthy treat (such as a sugar free fruit muffin, fruit leather, dark chocolate) after a few days of really healthy foods in my intervention, I am addressing the reinforcement process because I am rewarding him for keeping to his diet with a healthy treat/reward after a few days....