How People Change their Minds to Adopt Healthful Habits
hosted byInstitute for Brain Potential (IBP)How People Change their Minds to Adopt Healthful Habits is organized by Institute for Brain Potential (IBP).
Initial Release Date: 08/29/2022
Expiration Date: 08/29/2025
Description:
If clients were to follow the advice of their health professionals including eating, physical activity, drinking, smoking, prescription, and addictive drugs, a majority of heart attacks, strokes, cancers, and other chronic conditions could be prevented or delayed.
This program presents eight key methods developed by social psychologists to help people change their minds to adopt health-related behaviors. However, in order to achieve sustainable change, it is also necessary to develop durable health-promoting habits.
Participants completing this program should be able to describe:
• Motivational Interviewing, Readiness to Change, and Self-Efficacy methods to change minds and the brain.
• Methods to translate intentions into action, compel action using health messages, and create meaningful change using social influence.
• Intrinsic Motivation and Relapse Prevention models for promoting behavioral change.
• Self-regulation to acquire positive habits and the habit brain.
• Brain-based tools for retraining the habit brain.
Applying Social Psychological Methods to Change Minds and the Brain
• Miller and Rollnick’s Motivational Interviewing
• Key Principle
• Motivational Brain
• Prochaska’s Readiness to Change
• Five Stages of Readiness to Change
• Attitudes and the Brain
• Bandura’s Self-Efficacy
• I Can Do This! Ways to develop self-efficacy.
• How Self-Efficacy Changes the Brain
• Adjen’s Translating Good Intentions into Action
• The Power of Planning
• The Goal-Directed Brain
• Rothman and Salovey’s Health Messages that Compel Action
• Persuasive Messages
• Two Competing Brain Systems
• Cialdini’s Social Influence to Create Meaningful Change
• Sources of Social Influence
• Social and Emotional Reasoning
• Deci and Ryan’s Intrinsic Motivation
• Motivating to Become Our Best Self
• Extrinsic Motivation
• Marlatt’s Relapse Prevention
• Resisting Temptations
• Retraining the Addicted Brain
Self-Regulation and the Habit Brain
• Why Self-Regulation is Hard to Achieve
• Understanding Cravings
• Changing How We Feel By Changing How We Think
• Improving How We Imagine the Future
• Maintaining Goal-Directed Behavior
Tools for Retraining the Habit Brain
• Reprogramming the Habit Brain
• Improving Impulse Control
• Tools for Behavioral Change
• Practicing Reward Substitution for Want-Based Habits
• Developing Resilience: a set of habits that can restore balance by reframing how we experience the past and imagine the future