Stages of Change

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Stage IV: Action

Defining Characteristic: Begins to implement the solution or plan. Motivational Tasks:Help client take steps toward change. Support initial steps towards change, provide corrective feedback.

Stage V: Maintenance

Defining Characteristic: Develops new behaviors to maintain changes and solution. Motivational Tasks: Help client identify & use strategies to prevent relapse; support success; and reinforce motivation & self-efficacy.

Stage I: Pre-contemplation

Defining Characteristic: No awareness of problem or intention to make a change. Motivational Tasks: raise doubt and provide info to increase client's perception of risks and problems with current behavior

Stage II: Comtemplation

Defining Characteristic: Ambivalence about change. Motivational Tasks: Tip the balance. Evoke questions about making a change & discuss risks of not changing; strengthen the client's self-efficacy to change current behavior, but no action.

Stage III: Preparation

Defining Characteristic: Window of opportunity when a client considers change & develops a commitment to action. Motivational Tasks: Help client determine the best course of action to take in seeking change. Focus on small but meaningful steps.

Stage VI: Relapse

Defining Characteristics: Resumption of problem: normal & expected. Likely to abandon change if demoralized. Motivational Tasks: Help client renew process of contemplation, determination, and action, without becoming stuck or demoralized because of relapse.


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