ASSIGNMENT
Health behavior change can vary with each individual from the duration of time it takes to make the change, readiness, cultural and community perspectives, and even behavioral health and emotional well-being. Behavior change is complex and not easy to accomplish. However, the importance of noting how you can effectively change your own health behavior can help you in your community and professional work with others to facilitate change on an individual health and population health level. For this assignment. you will state one health behavior that you would like to work on changing for yourself and why this is something that you would like to change. At a minimum, your paper should include:
• The behavior that you would like to change and why you would like to change the behavior – Use your SMART Goals to help define the behavior and how you plan to change it.
• Address the area of analysis used to determine behavior change by identifying and defining the stage you are at in the Transtheoretical Model of Health Behavior Change. Use the literature and videos from class to inform this area and explain why you feel you are at the stage you are at.
• Define at least ONE barrier to making the change and develop a plan around how you are going to work to overcome the barrier.
Housekeeping items:
This paper should be about one page (300-400 words). Times New Roman font 12, double spaced. NOT including the title page, reference page, appendices, or tables/charts/graphs, etc. – feel free to add those as needed.
