Select a health behavior that you would like to change. It can be something you want to increase such as exercise, or decrease such as eating junk food, or stop such as smoking.
Write a 4-6 page paper (excluding the title and reference pages) that includes the information listed in the guidelines and requirements below.
Guidelines and Requirements
Apply one of the models of change from chapter 15 to your selected health behavior.
Identify the behavioral, psychological, environmental, and organismic factors related to your selected behavior change that are associated with wellness.
Review the research literature regarding evidence-based interventions to change the behavior.
Develop a plan to change the behavior based on evidence that you have found in the literature.
Discuss the most effective interventions that will most likely be effective for your behavior change, and explain why.
Use the following “headers” in the format of your paper. All of the headers listed below must be included in your paper.
Description of Selected Health Behavior to Change
Application of (name of selected model) to the Health Behavior
Factors Associated with Wellness
Plan to Change the Health Behavior
Most Effective Interventions & Why
Follow APA format and the rubric for written papers.
