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  1. Health Promotion: An Overview
  2. An Introduction to Health Behaviors
    1. Role of Behavioral Factors in Disease and Disorder
    2. What Are Health Behaviors?
    3. Practicing and Changing Health Habits: An Overview
    4. Barriers to Modifying Poor Health Behaviors
    5. Intervening with Children and Adolescents
    6. Interventions with At-Risk People
    7. Health Promotion and the Elderly
    8. Ethnic and Gender Differences in Health Risks and Habits
  3. Changing Health Habits
    1. Attitude Change and Health Behavior
    2. Theory of Planned Behavior
    3. Attitudes and Changing Health Behaviors: Some Caveats
  4. Cognitive-Behavioral Approaches to Health Behavior Change
    1. Self-observation and Self-monitoring
    2. Classical Conditioning
    3. Operant Conditioning
    4. Modeling
    5. Stimulus Control
    6. The Self-control of Behavior
    7. Broad-Spectrum Cognitive-Behavior Therapy
    8. Relapse
  5. Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change
    1. Stages of Change
    2. Importance of the Stage Model of Change
    3. Using the Stage Model of Change
  6. Changing Health Behaviors Through Social Engineering
  7. Venues for Health-Habit Modification
    1. The Private Therapist's Office
    2. The Health Practitioner's Office
    3. The Family
    4. Managed Care Facilities
    5. Self-help Groups
    6. Schools
    7. Work Site Interventions
    8. Community-Based Interventions
    9. The Mass Media
    10. The Internet
    11. Conclusions





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