This unique multidisciplinary volume examines the dynamics of behavioral
change and its maintenance, from the individual to the wider domains of
public policy. Coverage traces how change may be achieved, sustained, or
derailed, as well as underlying neurobiological, behavioral, and social
processes that fuel unhealthy and risky behaviors. Contributors offer a
wide range of prevention and intervention strategies for supporting
positive health habits from improved food choices to abstinence to
compliance with treatment. These mechanisms are then transferred to the
societal level in studies of evolving public perception of salient
issues such as climate change, gender disparities, and drug policy.
Included among the topics:
- Motivating change in addiction via modulation of the dark side.
- Changing drug use and other health-related behavior in vulnerable
populations.
- Change and maintaining change in school cafeterias.
- Understanding social structural barriers and facilitators to
behavioral change.
- Strategic communication research to illuminate and promote public
engagement with climate change.
A provocative rendering of motivation in its macro and micro dimensions,
Change and Maintaining Change will interest researchers,
practitioners, and clinicians interested in diverse areas such as
smoking and other addictions, improvement and relapse in therapy,
development and treatment of anxiety disorders, and social cognition and
decision-making.
