22. LIST of Stages In Effecting Permanent Change And The Change Process
Techniques
Stages of Change and Change Process Techniques for Achieving Change
STAGE 1 2 3 4 5 6
Pre- Relapse Goal:
Contem- Contem- Prepara- Mainten- &
Re- Termina-
plation plation tion Action ance
cycle tion
PROCESS
Consciousness
Raising ¯ ¯ ¯
Social
Liberation ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯
Emotional
Arousal ¯ ¯ ¯
Self
Re-evaluation ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯
Commitment ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯
Countering ¯ ¯ ¯
Environmental
Control ¯ ¯ ¯
Reward ¯ ¯ ¯
Helping
Relationships ¯ ¯ ¯
Created from pp. 33 and 54 of Changing For Good: The Revolutionary
Program That Explains the Six Stages of change and Teaches You How to
Free Yourself From Bad Habits, James O Prochaska, John C. Norcross,
Carlo C. DiClemente, William Morrow and Co., New York, 1994.
Regarding the previous chart:
Termination: that which distinguishes terminators from lifetime
maintainers or lifetime relapse-
recyclers (p. 276-279):
a new self image
perceive no temptation in any situation to return
to old habit(s)
solid self-efficacy
a healthier life style
The real solution: spending time and energies on self-enhancing
activities, committing to live life to its fullest while preventing behaviors
that short-circuit your endeavors such as believing that life
is passing you by and that you thus find it easy to give up
on yourself. Thus, as long as you act on your potential
to change, you will discover that even the darkest days will end and the
most tempting situations will pass (p. 279).
FOOLISH FREEDOM: Too many people cannot control their media-fueled
desires, seek[ing] fulfillment in external objects. ... It
seems the only freedom we can achieve is negative--freedom from the demands
of others (p. 283). Thus, foolish freedom is reactive--reacting
just to keep from being controlled or reacting to immediate consequences.
Responsible freedom is interactive--interacting with feedback and information
about how changing our behavior can be beneficial to ourselves and to
others. Responsible freedom is when you choose to change for the
best of reasons, regardless of what you were conditioned to do, what you
feel compelled to do, or what is most immediately gratifying to do.
Our fullest freedom emerges when we have the opportunity to choose that
which would enhance our life, our sense of self, and our society
(p. 286).
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