- Describe what may increase and decrease the chances that a person will change a negative health behavior and explain why.
- Explain at least two ways to motivate a person to change a behavior.
- Explain the role of theory in development of health behavior interventions.
- Support your responses with references from the Learning Resources.
- lanz, K., Rimer, B. K., & Viswanath, K. (Eds.). (2015). Health behavior: Theory, research, and practice (5th ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
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- Chapter 1, “The Scope of Health Behaviorâ€
- Chapter 2, “Theory, Research, and Practice in Health Behaviorâ€
- Araujo-Soares, V., Hankonen, N., Presseau, J., Rodrigues, A., & Sniehotta, F. F. (2018). Developing behavior change interventions for self-manangement in chronic illness: An integrative review.Links to an external site. European Psychologist, 24, 7–25. doi:10.1027/1016-9040/a000330
- Sheeran, P., Klein, W. M. P., & Rothman, A. J. (2017). Health behavior change: Moving from observation to intervention.Links to an external site. Annual Review of Psychology, 68, 573–600. doi:10.1146/annurev-psych-010416-044007