Reflections: theories and behaviour change by Catherine Sabiston

What are two specific take-aways from the readings that you could use in your work with clients?

catherinesabiston2 — 2024-01-14 23:59:42 UTC

Identify one confusion, challenge, or question you have after reading the material for this week?

catherinesabiston2 — 2024-01-15 00:01:18 UTC

Briththeka

2025-02-03 14:28:38 UTC

Behaviour change is highly dependent on self-efficacy and perceived amount of control. The amount of power someone believes they have over themselves dictates their ability to change/remain the same.

Brintha

2025-02-03 14:29:12 UTC

One takeaway from one of the reading is that personality traits such as extraversion are more likely to follow-through with their intentions of behaviour change. However, I want to know more of how we could combat this for individuals who may have introvert personality traits.

Jason

2025-02-03 14:29:39 UTC

Behavior changes in my understanding is the process of any modification regarding one’s action, habit and attitude, which aims to improve the individuals overall well being and performance

What do I know about behaviour change - Laura

2025-02-03 14:29:43 UTC

The transtheoretical model of change suggests that people move through 5 different stages when implementing change.

Ethan T

2025-02-03 14:29:54 UTC

Behaviour change theories (to my understanding) encompass several unique methods to encouraging or provoking a change in behaviours. These may include behaviour change techniques, theoretical models, and secondary methods intended to increase the likelihood of behaviour change

Aoyu

2025-02-03 14:30:20 UTC

may change based on the environment, surroundings, or people around you.

Nate

2025-02-03 14:30:23 UTC

The readings emphasize that intention is not enough to change behavior; there's a significant intention-behavior gap that requires addressing factors beyond motivation. Key post-intentional constructs to consider include volitional regulation, affect, self-efficacy, outcome expectancies, selective attention, endogenous factors, external factors, habit, and identity.

What do you know about behaviour change? Kaitlyn M

2025-02-03 14:30:24 UTC

Behaviour change is the act of changing someone’s habits over time to achieve a specific goal.

What do you know about behaviour change?

2025-02-03 14:30:26 UTC

That it uses skills to change one habits and or actions based off goals to achieve an outcome - Caitlin

Behaviour change

2025-02-03 14:30:31 UTC

Jacob

I know that behaviour change involves altering habits, attitudes or actions through various stages such as motivation, education and reinforcement. I am aware of the self determination theory, theory of planned behaviour and the transtheoretical model.

Ryan

2025-02-03 14:30:31 UTC

Behaviour change to me is the process of modifying and morphing behavioural patterns to work and adapt towards positive habits

2025-02-03 14:30:33 UTC

Not too experienced with this term but I believe that behaviour change (with clients) will have multiple developments and continuous discussions are needed based on their goals and who they want to be while they’re developing (as people).

Based in my own understanding, I’m confused whether behaviour change with clients could lead to bias where you may not be a good fit for a client as an instructor (I.e, maybe their goals develop beyond your expertise).

Sam

Rehana

2025-02-03 14:31:21 UTC

-surprising that variables such as social and environmental conditions are not considered as much as you think in intention based theories

-clearly defining terms are important for intervention and models

Alyssa Cinquina

2025-02-03 14:31:59 UTC

Behaviour change is an ongoing process, it can be working towards a goal, long term or short term. Often, behaviour change can start with something small, if too many things are changed at once this can become overwhelming.

Alyssa W

2025-02-03 14:32:05 UTC

Behaviour change is influenced by several factors. Individuals need to be motivated to make changes to their behaviour and can also be influenced by the relationships they hold along with their environment. Different theories can be applied to behaviour change to make it more effective and relevant to the individual.

Hele W.

2025-02-03 14:32:33 UTC

What are 2 takeaways from the readings thats you could use to work with clients

I learned the importance of understanding not only the clients attitudes but the sources such as their physical capabilities and policies that must be taken into account motivate clients for intended behavioral changes

Identify one confusion, challenge, or question..

Since there is so many models, is there one that is best used for a certain situation/interaction?

Darius

2025-02-03 14:32:54 UTC

An interesting takeaway from the reading is that conscious reminders of expected outcomes regarding a behaviour change can be used to foster motivation in adhering to this behaviour change.

Additionally, identity is viewed as the ultimate source of self-regulation, preserving an intended behaviour through a process of mitigating affective/cogntive dissonance in situations that can trigger the awareness of one’s sense of self.

Edward Behavior Change

2025-02-03 14:33:35 UTC

From my perspective, I believe self efficacy plays a key role for behavior change. Most of the time as a coach, it’s your responsibility to allow your clients to understand what they could do so that they can adapt that and change from sedentary behavior to a more physical active behavior

One challenge, Edward Yao

2025-02-03 14:35:20 UTC

One challenge I realized is probably on how to make sure your clients can accept your philosophy so that they can adapt to the new behavior. Thus, a communication between coaches and clients is necessary.

Alyssa W

2025-02-03 14:37:09 UTC

Behaviour change is a process that takes time and patience. An individual’s behaviour change is influenced by the internal (ex. Motivation) and external factors (ex. Relationships and environment) in their life. There are different theories that can be applied to help guide an individual change their behaviour.