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The three problem-focused coping strategies identified by Folkman and Lazarus are: taking control, information seeking, and evaluating the pros and cons. However, problem-focused coping may not be necessarily adaptive, but backfire, especially in the uncontrollable case that one cannot make the problem go away. [7]
Behavior change communication, or BCC, is an approach to behavior change focused on communication. It is also known as social and behavior change communication, or SBCC. The assumptions is that through communication of some kind, individuals and communities can somehow be persuaded to behave in ways that will make their lives safer and healthier.
For example, teachers and parents need strategies they are able and willing to use and that affect the child's ability to participate in community and school activities. By changing stimulus and reinforcement in the environment and teaching the person to strengthen deficit skill areas, their behavior changes.
For example, you might say, “Mom, I love you and respect you, but it works best for me and our relationship if we talk once a week on the weekend, rather than several times during the weekday.”
Positive deviance (PD) is an approach to behavioral and social change. It is based on the idea that, within a community, some individuals engage in unusual behaviors allowing them to solve problems better than others who face similar challenges, despite not having additional resources or knowledge.
Well-being is the state that egoists seek for themselves and altruists aim to increase for others. [20] Many disciplines examine or are guided by considerations of well-being, including psychology, ethics, economics, medicine, and law. [21] The word well-being comes from the Italian term benessere. It entered the English language in the 16th ...
Research that has been done on this age group had previously explored more negative aspects than well-being, such as problem and risk behaviours (i.e. drug and alcohol use). Researchers who conducted a study in 2013 recognized the absence of adolescents in eudaimonic research and the importance of this developmental stage.
“Three Hours To Change Your Life” an excerpt of the book Your Best Year Yet! by Jinny S. Ditzler This document is a 35-page excerpt, including the Welcome chapter of the book and Part 1: The Principles of Best Year Yet – three hours to change your life First published by HarperCollins in 1994 and by Warner Books in 1998