BCM:Methods to Change Skills, Capability, and Self-Efficacy and to Overcome Barriers

Question 1

Prompting individuals to rehearse
and repeat the behavior various
times, discuss the experience, and
provide feedback.
Subskill demonstration, instruction,
and enactment with
Individual feedback; requires
supervision by an experienced
person; some environmental
changes cannot be rehearsed.

Answer 1

Guided Practice

Question 2

Providing increasingly challenging
tasks with feedback to serve as
indicators of capability.
Requires willingness to accept
feedback.

Answer 2

Enactive mastery experiences

Question 3

Using messages that suggest that
the participant possesses certain
capabilities.
Credible source.

Answer 3

Verbal persuasion

Question 4

Prompting interpretation of
enhancement or reduction of
physiological and affective states, to
judge own capabilities.
Must carefully interpret and manage
emotional states.

Answer 4

Improving phyical and emotional states

Question 5

Helping people reinterpret previous
failures in terms of unstable
attributions and previous successes
in terms of stable attributions.
Requires counseling or bibliotherapy
to make unstable and external
attributions for failure.

Answer 5

Reattribution training

Question 6

Prompting the person to keep a
record of specified behavior(s).
The monitoring must be of the
specific behavior (that is, not of a
physiological state or health
outcome). The data must be
interpreted and used. The reward
must be reinforcing to the
individual

Answer 6

Self-monitoring of behaviour

Question 7

Praising, encouraging, or providing
material rewards that are explicitly
linked to the achievement of
specified behaviors.
Rewards need to be tailored to the
individual, group or organization, to
follow the behavior in time, and to
be seen as a consequence of the
behavior

Answer 7

Provide contingent rewards

Question 8

Teaching changing a stimulus,
either consciously or unconsciously
perceived, that elicits or signals a
behavior.
Existing positive intention

Answer 8

Cue altering

Question 9

Stimulating pledging, promising, or
engaging oneself to perform the
healthful behavior and announcing
that decision to others.
Needs to be a public announcement;
may include contracting.

Answer 9

Public commitment

Question 10

Prompting planning what the person
will do, including a definition of
goal-directed behaviors that result
in the target behavior.
Commitment to the goal; goals that
are difficult but available within the
individual’s skill level.

Answer 10

Goal setting

Question 11

Setting easy tasks and increase
difficulty until target behavior is
performed.
The final behavior can be reduced to
easier but increasingly difficult subbehaviors

Answer 11

Set graded tasks

Question 12

Prompting participants to list
potential barriers and ways to
overcome these.
Identification of high-risk situations
and practice of coping response

Answer 12

Planning Coping Responses