Induce Behavior Change Research Articles

National Research Program on the prevention of cardiovascular diseases: plan of study

The main objectives of the Swiss National Research Program on primary prevention of cardiovascular diseases are: 1) the reduction of known cardiovascular risk factors among the local populations of two intervention Communities compared to two "regular care" communities and 2) the provision of tested cost-effective methods for nation-wide use in the future control of CVD. The main focus during both the screening and the three years intervention phase will be on the total mobilization of community resources to induce behavior change (active participation of the population as well as the local health and social services system both in planning and implementation). A program such as this has to meet the challenge of developing a design that combines the needs for rigorous evaluation with a maximal amount of flexibility regarding the results of local initiative and involvement.

A Comprehensive Summary of the Position of the British Association for Behavioural Psychotherapy on the Ethics of Procedures for Inducing Behaviour Change

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Role enactment: A social work method for inducing behavior change

This paper has gathered empirical evidence in favor of a notion that our prepsychoanalytic predecessors knew intuitively: role enactment is a germinal social work means for producing behavioral change. In another paper the writer (Borenzweig, 1971) analyzes why the profession joined the exclusive psychoanalytic bandwagon and forsook its social psychological birthirght. The social workers of the “social psychiatry” era were concerned about issues contemporary social workers and psychiatrists are readdressing: how does the disturbed person perform pathological and socially requisite roles? How much more therapeutic leverage is obtained by encouraging the patient to enact roles in a milieu approximating the normal, in his normal milieu, or in both? The “social psychiatry” psychiatrists recognized their predominantly physico-psychic interest in the patient, depended on social workers for those aspects of diagnosis which entailed social functioning, and held the social worker responsible for the patient's post-discharge role performance. It is largely social work's influence upon psychiatry which concerns the latter profession with role. Recent psychiatric, diagnostic, and post-treatment evaluative instruments (Spitzer, 1963; Katz and Lyerly, 1963) incorporate the evaluation of role performance as asine qua non for psychic measurement.

Comparison of the relative effectiveness of instructions, modeling, and reinforcement procedures for inducing behavior change.

Comparison of the relative effectiveness of instructions, modeling, and reinforcement procedures for inducing behavior change.

Inducing behaviour change in adolescent delinquents

Approximately forty delinquents were offered part-time jobs of talking into a tape recorder about anything they wished. A simple reinforcement procedure was initiated whereby attendance at work became dependable and prompt within twenty-five meetings. A three-year follow-up of the first twenty employees showed a significant reduction in the frequency and severity of crime when compared to a matched-pair control group. The use of referral and “treatment” procedures was minimal.

Suppression of LSD-25 Effects in Rats by Steroids.

SummaryA series of 15 steroid hormones and metabolites were tested for their effectiveness to suppress LSD-25 induced behavior changes in rats. All produced significant suppression (p<0.05) except estradiol. Ability to suppress LSD-25 action does not appear to be related to specific molecular groups or to hormonal potency.