Understanding Hard to Maintain Behaviour Change A Dual Process Approach

Presents an integrative theory of hard-to-maintain behaviours, which includes hard-to-reduce or eliminate behaviours such as smoking and other drug use, overconsumption of food or unsafe sex, and hard to- sustain behaviours such as exercise and sun-safe behaviours.

Info autore

Ron Borland PhD is the Nigel Gray Distinguished Fellow in Cancer Prevention, at the Cancer Council Victoria, Australia where he has worked since 1986. He also has honorary appointments at the University of Melbourne and Monash University. His background is in psychology with degrees from Monash University and the University of Melbourne.  Prior to joining the Cancer Council, he worked as a psychologist at a major psychiatric institution in Melbourne and in Papua New Guinea. He has over 300 publications in peer-reviewed journals, mostly related to aspects of tobacco control. He is one of the Principal Investigators of the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project: an international collaboration currently active in over 20 countries. His main research areas are studying the impact on smokers of tobacco control policies, understanding determinants of smoking cessation outcomes, and developing and evaluating mass-disseminable interventions to help smokers quit.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: R Borland, Ron (The Cancer Council Borland, Borland Ron, Ron Borland
• Editore: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 31.01.2014
• Categoria: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Medicina > Tematiche generali; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Psicologia > Psicologia teorica
• EAN: 9781118572931
• ISBN: 978-1-118-57293-1
• Numero di pagine: 256
• Serie: Addiction Press; Addiction Press
• Categorie: food, Development, People, MEDICAL / Public Health, PSYCHOLOGY / General, book, Psychology, SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / General, MEDICAL / Preventive Medicine, Popular psychology, Behaviour, Forms, relevant, Hard, Public health & preventive medicine, Tobacco, Public health and preventive medicine, examples, Anyone, Sustain, important, behaviours, Overconsumption, concerned, desirable, eliminate, integrative theory, authors work, hardtomaintain