Psychology · Behavioural Psychology
A topic within Behavioural Psychology, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Psychology.
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James O. Prochaska & Carlo C. DiClemente
Proposes that people change entrenched behaviours like smoking by moving through a fixed sequence of stages, from precontemplation to maintenance, and that matching an intervention to a person's current stage predicts success better than uniform advice.
Susan Michie, Michelle Richardson, Marie Johnston, Charles Abraham, Jill Francis, Wendy Hardeman, Martin P. Eccles, James Cane & Caroline E. Wood
Behaviour-change interventions had been described so inconsistently that they could not be compared across studies, so this builds a standard vocabulary of 93 discrete techniques - such as goal-setting or self-monitoring - that any intervention can be coded against.
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