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This is purely educational for anyone who wants to learn about behavior and change, it helped me a lot, and maybe it will help a few of you.
So this is a model that is used to help professionals understand how people break bad habits. Understanding the process that a person goes though to make a major life change is important because you can figure out where they are at and deliver advice that they are ready to hear. If a person is not ready to change a behavior, and you are telling them to, they are going to shut you out, and even though you might feel good for telling them the “truth” you have not helped them at all. If anything, you have hurt things. So the first thing I am going to do is introduce the 5 states and than give some examples of effective and ineffective counseling based on these changes.
Disclaimer: I am not a mental health professional, so if someone here knows more than me and wants to chime in, please do so. To give credit, this model was proposed by James Prochaski and Carlo DeClemente.
Precontemplation - the person does not see their is a problem with their behavior and sees no reason to change it.
Contemplation - the person knows there is a problem, but is not ready to make a change
Preparation/Determination - the individual is planning to make a change
Action - the plan is initiated, and the person changes their behavior
Maintenance - maintaining the new behavior
Relapse - going back to their old ways
The diagram for this is a circle, often for a habit such as an addiction, relapse occurs more than once, but they more times someone goes through this, the better chance they have at stopping the behavior for good, which is called transcendence. The point where this habit is no longer a normal part of the person’s life.
This can be applied to anything from smoking, gambling, alcoholism, and toxic relationships (it is used for domestic violence counseling).
This will be over several posts, it is too long to do in one
So this is a model that is used to help professionals understand how people break bad habits. Understanding the process that a person goes though to make a major life change is important because you can figure out where they are at and deliver advice that they are ready to hear. If a person is not ready to change a behavior, and you are telling them to, they are going to shut you out, and even though you might feel good for telling them the “truth” you have not helped them at all. If anything, you have hurt things. So the first thing I am going to do is introduce the 5 states and than give some examples of effective and ineffective counseling based on these changes.
Disclaimer: I am not a mental health professional, so if someone here knows more than me and wants to chime in, please do so. To give credit, this model was proposed by James Prochaski and Carlo DeClemente.
Precontemplation - the person does not see their is a problem with their behavior and sees no reason to change it.
Contemplation - the person knows there is a problem, but is not ready to make a change
Preparation/Determination - the individual is planning to make a change
Action - the plan is initiated, and the person changes their behavior
Maintenance - maintaining the new behavior
Relapse - going back to their old ways
The diagram for this is a circle, often for a habit such as an addiction, relapse occurs more than once, but they more times someone goes through this, the better chance they have at stopping the behavior for good, which is called transcendence. The point where this habit is no longer a normal part of the person’s life.
This can be applied to anything from smoking, gambling, alcoholism, and toxic relationships (it is used for domestic violence counseling).
This will be over several posts, it is too long to do in one