This morning I recalled looking for an easy reference to the Erikson's stages yesterday in class and decided to find one for a single page. I had to draft it myself and fell into a flow with it and couldn't stop until I was done.

This and a review of the stages of grief lead me to the stages of change model.

Stages of Change
1. Precontemplation - Has no intention to take action within the next 6 months
2. Contemplation - Intends to take action within the next 6 months.
3. Preparation - Intends to take action within the next 30 days and has taken some behavioral steps in this direction.
4. Action - Has changed overt behavior for less than 6 months
5. Maintenance - Has changed overt behavior for more than 6 months.
6. Termination - Overt behavior will never return, and there is complete confidence that you can cope without tear of relapse.

Today I learned of the condition of sensitization which is the opposite of tolerance. I realized that I experienced this.

I also came across the I-Change model of change:
1. Awareness - the result of accurate knowledge and risk perceptions of the person about his own behavior
2. Motivation - a person's attitude (the results of perceived advantages and disadvantages of the behavior), social influence beliefs (norms of others, behavior of others, and support of others) and self-efficacy expectations (the perceived ability to perform a particular health behavior).
Action - Self-efficacy, action planning and goal setting. Performing the new behavior, Coping or maintenance Development of skills required for the new health behavior.