Theories of Change and Beyond


 

 

We invite you to participate as a researcher in finding and adding resources on transformational change.   This is a dynamic tool for you to add information you find to your FW 311 individual group's wiki as you do research for class projects (click on the "Sidebar" located on the right in the "View" mode--select the appropriate Class Wiki).  We encourage you to share not only titles (for example, the citation of a journal article, a book, a blog, or title of a digital media stream), but also the places you found the resources and the search strategies you found useful, as we have in the links below. Students will post to the topic areas on the sidebar located on the right.

 

Required Assignment Materials:

 

Glanz, K., Rimer, B., & Viswanath, K.  (2008).  Health Behavior and Health Education: Theory, Reserach, and Practice. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. 

  

 HealtBehavior-Education.pdf

 

DiClemente, R. Crosby, R., & Kegler, M.  (2002).  Emerging Theories in Health Promotion Practice and Research: Strategies for Improving Public Health. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. 

 

EmergingTheoriesInHealthpromotionPracticeAndResearch.pdf

 

Buchanan, D.  (2000).  An Ethic for Health Promotion. Oxford, NY: Oxford University Press.

 

 AnEthicforHealthPromotion.pdf 

 

 

Supplementary Resource Materials:

  

Articles:

 

Peer Reviewed:

 

O'Donnell, M.  (2004).  Health Promotion Behaviors That Promote Self-Healing.  Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 10 (1), S49-S60.

 

 health and self healing.pdf

 

Kritsonis, A. (2005). Comparison of Change Theories. International Journal of Scholarly Academic Intellectual Diversity. 8 (1).

 

 Comparison of Change Theories.pdf

 

Books:

 

Watson, D.L, & Tharp, R.G. (2007). Self-Directed Behavior. Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth.

 

Electronic Books from Cline Library:

 

The handbook of health behavior change. Sally A. Shumaker, Judith K. Ockene, Kristin A. Riekert, editors. New York: Springer Pub. Co., 2009. Access ebook.

 

It's not all in your head: how worrying about your health could be making you sick--and what you can do about it. Gordon J. G. Asmundson, Steven Taylor. New York : The Guilford Press, c2005. Chapters: Do I worry too much about my health? -- Body and brain: it's not all in your head -- Do I have some other anxiety disorder? -- Sick and sad: am I depressed too? -- Understanding and managing stress -- Thoughts that influence your anxiety and how to change them -- Behaviors that influence your anxiety and how to change them -- Dealing with doctors -- Helping friends and family help you -- Living life and maintaining your gains. Access ebook. 

 

Lifestyle management in health and social careEdited by Miranda Thew.  Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publisher, 2008.  Access ebook.  

 

Media:

 

This is a humorous example of using some right words without producing the desired effect - Behavior Change Theory gone wrong.

 

Daly, T. (2008, January 8). ABC's of Behavior Change. Video posted to

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIbeyadVCRk

 

Hay, L. (2008, March). You Can Heal Your Life. Video posted to

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYCamVx4fSQ (watch this and see some of the authors of our texts)