Motivate Healthy Habits: Change Yourself Before Helping Others

by Botelho, Richard J.

• ISBN13: 9780970673800
• ISBN10: 0970673809
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Exploring Inner Change	p. 2
Begin with Yourself	p. 5
Helping Family and Friends	p. 7
Helping Professionals	p. 9
Getting Professional Help	p. 10
How to Use This Guidebook	p. 11
Unhealthy Habits	p. 13
Why Do People Keep Their Unhealthy Habits?	p. 13
Promote Health, Not Disease	p. 14
What Are the Good Times and Good Life to You?	p. 15
Who Sells You the Good Times?	p. 15
What Is the Good Life?	p. 16
Why Are Healthy Habits Important for the Good Life?	p. 17
Any Concerns about Your Health Behaviors?	p. 21
Deciding Whether to Think about Change	p. 22
Understanding Change	p. 23
Unhealthy and Healthy Forces for Change	p. 23
External Factors	p. 24
Increase Your Supports for Change	p. 24
Overcome Barriers to Change	p. 25
Internal Factors	p. 25
Understanding Your Readiness to Change	p. 25
Understanding Your Motives to Change	p. 28
Understanding Your Confidence and Ability to Change	p. 29
Assess Your Chances of Changing	p. 30
Become Your Own Health Coach	p. 31
Use the SEED Cycle	p. 31
Monitoring Change over Time	p. 33
Get Ready for Change	p. 34
List the Benefits of Your Unhealthy Habit	p. 34
Use a Decision Balance	p. 39
Assess Your Resistance and Motivation Scores	p. 41
Assess Your Competing Priorities	p. 42
Assess Your Energy to Change	p. 42
Assess Your Motives for Change	p. 43
What Helped You Get Ready for Change?	p. 46
Take Charge of Your Health	p. 47
Lower Your Resistance Score	p. 48
Explore Further Why You Do Not Change	p. 48
Assess Your Priorities	p. 49
Compare Your Priorities	p. 50
Think How Your Behavior Will Affect Your Health over Time	p. 50
Clarify Your Personal Choice and Responsibility to Change	p. 53
Make a List of Substitutes for Your Benefits	p. 53
Change Your Views about Your Reasons to Stay the Same	p. 54
Increase Your Motivation Score	p. 57
Consider Future Events Happening Now	p. 57
Change Your Values	p. 59
Change Your Views about Your Reasons to Change	p. 60
Look at Your Excuses for Not Changing	p. 61
Transfer Motivation toward Changing Your Behavior	p. 62
Overcome Barriers	p. 64
Increase Supports	p. 65
What Helped You Take Charge of Your Health?	p. 66
Make Plans for Change	p. 68
Overcome Negative Self-talk	p. 68
Use Your Strengths	p. 69
Take a Time-out	p. 70
Suppose a Miracle Happened Tomorrow	p. 70
Find Exceptions in How You Behave	p. 71
Build Your Confidence to Change	p. 72
Increase Your Ability to Change	p. 73
Understand Your Addiction	p. 74
Select Your Goals	p. 79
Prevent Relapses	p. 83
What Helped You Put a Plan into Action?	p. 89
Helping Others	p. 91
Comparing a Controlling and a Motivational Coach	p. 91
Become a Motivational Coach	p. 94
Understand How Assumptions Help and Hinder Change	p. 94
Understand Why People Resist Change	p. 96
Understand How People Resist Change	p. 98
Six Steps to Helping Someone Change	p. 99
Share and Discuss Progress and Goals	p. 108
Become a Preventive Coach for Children	p. 110
Share Your Experience	p. 110
Learn About Nicotine Addiction	p. 110
Supports and Barriers	p. 111
Understanding Your Children's Temptations	p. 113
Helping Children Resist Unhealthy Habits	p. 116
Appendices
Your Progress and Goal Charts	p. 117
Evaluating Web Sites	p. 119
Low-Risk Drinking Recommendations	p. 122
Alcohol Abuse	p. 123
Alcohol Dependency	p. 124
Additional Resources for Alcohol and Drug Problems	p. 125
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