Kinesiology 2276F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Relapse Prevention, Guided Imagery, Vigorish
16 Oct 2018
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Informational approaches- to change knowledge and attitudes about pa: behavioral approaches- (most successful to date) to teach necessary skills for adoption and maintenance of behavioral change. Social approaches- to create environments that facilitate and enhance behavior change. Environmental and policy approaches- to change the structure of your environments; to provide better places for pa; organizational and structural: goals of informational approaches, benefits of pa, awareness of opportunities for pa. Interventions that use an informational approach: motivational interviewing, mass media campaigns. Motivational interviewing: a counselling technique that provides people with the opportunity to talk about and resolve their mixed feeling about exercise so they can move forward with change. People need to be trained to be able to do these; good listener; direct people convos; help them come with w/ solutions to be able to exercise. Shown to be effective in increasing pa participation, but can be costly and only reaches a small number of people.
