Stages of changeIt has been suggested in the identity literature that a readiness to change may play a role in identity development beyond adolescence, but an empirical investigation of this relationship had yet to be conducted until now. Therefore, the purpose of the current study was to ...
In other fields, client readiness for change, as conceptualized by the 'stages of change' (SOC; Prochaska & DiClemente, 1984, 1986, 1992), has been used to classify clients. Though the SOC model has gained widespread popularity, empirical research has produced varying results, perhaps because ...
Behavioral Change Theories Transtheoretical model of change, also known as the stages of change, is the theory that change occurs slowly and cyclically; that people move through different stages of readiness prior to making and maintaining changes. The stages of change are: ...
Prochaska and DiClemente's stages of change model was applied to the "problem behavior" of tobacco farming. Among news accounts relating to tobacco farmers or tobacco farming, print media accounts gave relatively little attention to the issue of diversification. Farmers in the sample of news ...
Mental health professionals may erroneously assume that clients seeking help for hypersexual behavior are ready to begin working on their issues at the outset of treatment. Prochaska and DiClemente (e.g., 1983, 1984) proposed the transtheoretical model (TTM) stages of change to advance their ...
Employees' readiness to change deserves attention because they will be the ones who support, promote, or resist and hinder organizational change [36]. Readiness to change can be associated with Lewin's famous model about the stages of change, where he suggested three stages: unfreezing, moving ...
GPs' assessment of patients' readiness to change diet, activity and smoking. The Stages of Change Model is increasingly used for lifestyle counselling. In general practice, the use of algorithms to measure stage of change is limited...
The SOC Model posits that different intervention strategies should be applied depending upon the individual's current stage of readiness for change. The first section of this digest presents an overview of the SOC, in which individuals move through a series of stages as they adopt and maintain a...
The Transtheoretical model posits five stages of change. Individuals in the precomtemplation stage, the initial stage of change, do not intend to modify their behavior, and in fact may not acknowledge they have a problem. When persons in this stage find their way into substance abuse treatment...
assess readiness to change, including the University of Rhode Island Change Assessment (McConnaughy, Prochaska, & Velicer, 1983), Readiness to Change Questionnaire (Rollnick, Heather, Gold, & Hall, 1992), and the Stages of Change Readiness and Treatment Eagerness Scale (Miller & Tonigan, 1996...