1st Edition
Intervention Strategies for Changing Health Behavior Applying the Disconnected Values Model
Part 1: The Need to Change Health Behavior 1. Explaining the Causes of Unhealthy Habits: Our Self-Destructive Nature 2. Challenges of Changing Health Behavior Part 2: Theoretical Foundations and Support 3. Psychological Benefits of Physical Activity 4. Strengths and Limitations of Existing Theories and Models in Health Behavior Change 5. Theoretical and Empirical Support for the Disconnected Values Model Part 3: Describing the Disconnected Values Model 6. Negative Habits 7. Performance Barriers 8. Perceived Benefits, Costs, and Consequences 9. Values 10. Disconnects between Negative Habits and Core Values 11. Determining and Carrying Out an Action Plan Part 4: Adherence and Compliance to New Healthy Habits 12. Adherence and Compliance to Healthy Habits 13. Steps for Achieving Adherence to New (Healthy) Habits Part 5: Cognitive and Behavioral Strategies that Promote Healthy Habits 14. Defining and Explaining Cognitive and Behavioral Strategies 15. Cognitive Strategies for Health Behavior Change 16. Behavioral Strategies for Health Behavior Change Part 6: Personal Factors that Influence Health Behavior Change 17. Personal Qualities That Promote Healthy Habits 18. Personal Qualities that Inhibit Healthy Habits 19. Role of Spirituality in Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle 20. Sample Applications of the Disconnected Values Model Additional Readings Appendix A: Sample Client Workbook for Applying the Disconnected Values Model Appendix B: Exerciser Checklist: Guidelines for High Quality Exercise Experiences
Biography
Mark H. Anshel is professor emeritus at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. He received a degree in physical education from Illinois State University (B.S.) and degrees from McGill University (M.A.) and Florida State University (Ph.D.) in performance psychology. He has authored over 140 research articles published in scientific journals, 14 book chapters, and 10 books, including Applied Health Fitness Psychology (2014). Over the past 15 years, he developed, validated, and authored research articles on the Disconnected Values Model.
Practitioners will appreciate Dr. Mark H. Anshel's systematic evidence-based approach to health and wellness and the importance of exercise in the preventive, ameliorative, and behavioral medicine equation. As a clinician and researcher, I am excited by his Disconnected Values Model that will foster not only new integrative procedural approaches, but also advance new avenues of research in the arena of exercise-facilitated health and wellness.
– Roland A. Carlstedt, Ph.D., Chairman and Chief Sport Psychologist, American Board of Sport Psychology; Research Associate, McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School; Clinical and Research Director, Integrative Psychological Services of New York City
This book is a must-read for those interested in changing health behavior. Thorough provision of background material and clear presentation of useful intervention strategies for changing health behavior are perfect for the public health challenges of our times.
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Michael Sachs, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Kinesiology, Temple University
