Creating health behavior change : how to develop community-wide programs for youth / Cheryl L. Perry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perry, Cheryl.

Series:

Developmental clinical psychology and psychiatry ; v. 43.

Developmental clinical psychology and psychiatry ; v. 43

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community health services for children.

Health promotion.

Health education.

Health behavior in adolescence.

Child health services.

Health behavior in children.

Physical Description:

ix, 140 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, [1999]

Summary:

In Creating Health Behavior Change, author Cheryl L. Perry provides a hands-on process for the development of effective community-wide health behavior programs for children and adolescents. Significant behavior change among young people across a variety of behaviors and community-based research studies has been achieved through programs that have been created based on this ten-step process.

The intent, then, of Creating Health Behavior Change is to provide steps for developing programs that will lead to meaningful change in improving the health behaviors of young people in our communities, in the broader context of improving physical, psychological, social, and spiritual well-being.

Contents:

Successful Health Behavior Change Programs 3

A Broad View of Health 11

The Challenge 14

2. Preparing for Program Development 17

Step 1 Selecting Health Behaviors for a Community-Wide Program 17

Step 2 Providing a Rationale for the Selected Health Behavior 19

Step 3 Creating an Intervention Model of Predictive Factors 33

3. Determining the Program Components 43

Step 4 Writing the Intervention Objectives 43

Step 5 Ensuring That Intervention Objectives Are Applicable to the Targeted Population 45

Step 6 Determining Which Types of Programs Are Most Applicable 54

4. Creating the Health Behavior Program 73

Step 7 Creating Program Components From Intervention Objectives 73

Step 8 Constructing the Health Behavior Program 88

5. Implementing and Maintaining a Health Behavior Program 99

Step 9 Implementing Community-Wide Health Behavior Programs 99

Step 10 Maintaining Health Behavior Programs 108.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-128) and index.

ISBN:

0761912266

0761912274

OCLC:

40943323