Borland Understanding Hard to Maintain Behaviour Change

A Dual Process Approach
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-57291-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Addiction Press

The book presents an integrative theory of hard-to-maintainbehaviours, that includes hard-to-reduce or eliminate behaviourslike smoking and other drug use, overconsumption of food or unsafesex, and hard-to-sustain behaviours like exercise and sun-safebehaviours. Most of the examples come from the author'swork on tobacco smoking, but it is relevant to anyone who isconcerned to understand why some forms of desirable behaviour areso hard to achieve, and to those trying to help people change. Italso has important implications for public health campaigns and forthe development of policies to nudge behaviour in desirableways.
The book provides readers with frameworks to:
- Determine whether a "hard to maintain" behaviour is aresult of the skills needed to perform it, its reinforcementhistory, the way the person thinks about it, the context, or somecombination of these.
- Better integrate cognitive and behavioural change strategies,including emergent strategies related to mindfulness andacceptance, plus novel ways of retraining operationalprocesses.
- Understand the different nature of challenges for behaviourswhere multiple attempts are typically required before the desiredbehaviour pattern is sustained.
- Better understand the role of feelings and emotions as influenceson behaviour.
- Understand the limits of environmental factors to determinechange.
- Understand the limits of self-control and will-power.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Borland, Ron

Über Autor(innen)

Ron Borland PhD is the Nigel Gray Distinguished Fellow inCancer Prevention, at the Cancer Council Victoria, Australia wherehe has worked since 1986. He also has honorary appointments at theUniversity of Melbourne and Monash University. His background is inpsychology with degrees from Monash University and the Universityof Melbourne. Prior to joining the Cancer Council, he workedas a psychologist at a major psychiatric institution in Melbourneand in Papua New Guinea. He has over 300 publications inpeer-reviewed journals, mostly related to aspects of tobaccocontrol. He is one of the Principal Investigators of theInternational Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project: aninternational collaboration currently active in over 20 countries.His main research areas are studying the impact on smokers oftobacco control policies, understanding determinants of smokingcessation outcomes, and developing and evaluating mass-disseminableinterventions to help smokers quit.