Healthy Living: Behaviorism And Constructivism Approach

Healthy Living

John Gaines

American College of Education

Healthy Living

Everyone aspires to lead a healthy life. Healthy living is a broad concept that encompasses a variety of measures and behaviors that individuals must observe to prevent poor health. The selected health and wellness topic of interest that was selected is health living. Within this broad topic, the health and wellness issue that was identified that impacts on the target population is poor nutrition and physical exercise behaviors. The target population is high school children. Nutrition and physical activity are important lifestyle factors that play an integral role in disease prevention and health promotion in adult years and therefore foster better quality

Poor nutrition and lack of physical activity is detrimental to good health. To address the issues, it is important that effective measures are taken to foster a change in behaviors and promote healthy lifestyles. The adoption of healthy lifestyles is only possible when there is a change in thinking coupled with a simultaneous adjustment of behavior. The constructivist approach will be used to promote a change in thinking while the behaviorism theory will be used to foster behavior

Effective identification of the issues will push the individuals within the target population to start looking at ways in which they can address the problem. This will create an environment where such individuals will readily embrace the change initiative with the hope that it will provide the much-needed support and guidance to the eversion of the health issue and the promotion of better life quality through the adoption of healthy lifestyles characterized by proper nutrition and productive physical activity. Therefore, the identification of the issue will have a galvanizing effect on the target