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"recycle" through the stages of change several times before the change
becomes fully established (Zimmerman et al., 2000).
The Stages of Change model is useful for identifying appropriate
interventions to foster positive behavior change (Table 6); by identifying
where a person is in the change process, interventions can be tailored to
the person's "readiness" to change (Zimmerman et al., 2000). Anything
that moves a person along the continuum towards making a positive
change should be viewed as a success. Once the person reaches the
contemplation stage, additional strategies can be employed to help the
person move along the stages of change.
It is important to evaluate a person's readiness to change for any
proposed intervention (Zimmerman et al., 2000). Interventions that are
not staged to the readiness of the individual will be less likely to succeed.
Also, interventions that try to move a person too quickly through the
stages of change are more likely to create resistance that will impede
behavior change.
For example, if trying to get a person to quit smoking, it is essential to
know where the person is in his or her readiness to stop. A person who
is not even thinking about quitting smoking (precontemplation) is
generally not ready to receive information about specific smoking
cessation aids. In this case, focusing the intervention on smoking
cessation aids sends the message that the health care provider is not
really listening. This may not only damage rapport but can also make the
person even more resistant to quitting smoking. A more stage-specific
intervention with this person would be to try to get the person to think
about quitting (contemplation). Once the person reaches the
contemplation stages, additional strategies can be employed to continue
to move the person through the stages of behavioral change.
Anything that moves a person along the continuum toward making a
positive change should be viewed as a success. Employing stage-specific
interventions will decrease provider frustration by lessening the
unrealistic expectation that change will occur with a single intervention.
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