Disconnected Values Model (DVM) Flashcards
What are four components needed for behavior change?
- Make association between negative habits & values
- Develop new healthy habits/routines; replacements
- Able communicate now status relative to long-term consequences of negative habits
- Support (coach, social)
How is desire for behavior change not enough?
Need initiate & change attitude & behavior;
Behavior change Self Efficacy
DSM overview?
- Personally Identify negative habits
- Cost/benefits
- ID Performance values
- ID disconnect & determine disconnect acceptable or unacceptable
- Unacceptable then action plan; enhance self-regulation
How is it difficult to change entrenched thinking, feeling, behaving?
- Often automatically performed as self-regulated routine;
2. Minimal cognition to perform habit
What must be address to change eating behavior?
- Long-held feelings & attitudes;
- Barriers, negative perceptions, unpleasant past experiences
- Driven by emotion
What 2 postulates is DVM predicated on?
- Self-motivated behavior reflects deepest values/purpose/beliefs
- CHANGE when inconsistency between values & behavior pattern perceived as “unacceptable”
What are negative habits?
- Personally decided
2. Tendencies perceived as undesirable or not in own best interest
How are personally acknowledged negative habits maintained?
- Perceive benefits maintaining habit OUTWEIGH costs & long-term consequences associated with behavior change
- Not exist without benefit even if that benefit is inconsistent or no longer relevant
What are performance barriers of negative habits?
- Perceived or actual
- Any persistent thought, emotion, action compromise quality performance
- Changeable unless habit chemical addiction
- Stress/worry then overcome address source & develop adaptation strategy
Who usually engages in actions with health protective properties?
Person with long term perspective
What’s benefit of teaching long term benefits of healthy behaviors?
- Inspire strong motivational properties toward health-promoting behavior
- Bring long-term perspective into one’s consciousness
- Increase understanding that consequences/ outcomes “unacceptable”
What is influence of “values”?
- Guide
- Motivate behavior
- Determine standards
- Assess own behavior & others
What impact does sharing one’s values have?
- Strong affect on commitment
- Sacrifice personal & self-serving needs for benefit of others
- Bigger impact on behavior change than interests, attitude & needs
- Best get one modify interests, Attitude to align with values
- Values are stable, transcend contexts
What makes identifying disconnect between values challenging?
- Seeing personal error
- Willingness to acknowledge own actions not consistent with values
- Cognitive dissonance
- Lower importance of value & conflict to reduce dissonance
What must happen for change of behavior?
- ID inconsistency BT values & actions; &
- Must view inconsistency as “unacceptable”
- Can’t motivate change until seen as “unacceptable” & won’t commit until point reached “unacceptable”
