Models of Health Behavior Change: Theory and Direct Applications to Health Promotion

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Target Audience

Social workers, psychologists, licensed professional counselors, educators, school personnel, mental health professionals, clinicians, health and human service practitioners, and other health care professionals.

Description

Health behavior change is crucial for reducing the burden of preventable disease and death in our communities. Alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use, unhealthy diet, and sedentary lifestyle account for greater than one million deaths each year in the United States. Behavioral risk factors and social determinants of health also disproportionately affect low income, racially and ethnically diverse, and low resource populations. This workshop will discuss clinical and public health models to understand health behaviors and associated strategies to influence health behavior change and guide health promotion and health education efforts. Both theory and applications in a variety of settings and at individual and interpersonal levels will be addressed.

Faculty
Gerald A. Fishman, PhD, LCAS, CPH

Charlotte AHEC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5096. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Charlotte AHEC is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.

Objectives

• Explore key models of individual and interpersonal health behavior (Health Belief Model; Theory of Reasoned Action; Transtheoretical Model (MI), Social Cognitive Model; Transactional Model of Stress and Coping)
• Translate theory and models into strategic interventions with a variety of health behaviors
• Evaluate applications to clinician-patient interactions.

Contact

Gabriela Staley MEd, 704-512-6523

Sessions