What´s Trans-Theoretical Model (TTM)

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Trans-Theoretical Model Trans theoretical Model (TTM) integrates several key concepts from several theories and applies these concepts to a variety human behaviors (Prochaska, Redding & Evers, 2008). The TTM addresses the stages of change related to human health behaviors, and one of the strength is that TTM addresses the stage prior person experience action to change his health behaviors. The stages of change include pre-contemplation, contemplation and preparation, and these stages used when individual is welling to change certain health behaviors. For example, when a young teenage use alcohol and marijuana and he does not seek information about how to protect himself by avoid drinking or consuming marijuana because of his peers. He is consider to be in the pre-contemplation stage as he does not seek information to protect himself. …show more content…

This is because a person who adopt new behaviors, he cannot indicate that he will stop the behavior 100%. For instance, a health care providers encourage patient to stop drinking alcohol, but still he may continue drinking in weeding party and so on. What I have learned from TTM is that human behaviors changes according to every stage and health care providers should assist individual through all these stages to meet his needs. The TTM will help individual to set his process as progressive and learn that change requires preparatory work. The TTM recognize which group of individuals will be most open to behaviors change as well as to address multiple behaviors change. The TTM has been criticized in many studies and this may because the TTM construct is still in progress and further studies are required to examine its construct and application to various health

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