Question

2. Discuss how the stages-of-change model can be adapted for work with families on the journey from precontemplation through maintenance.

Answer 1

Here, the model describes about stages of change, people usually face journey from pre-contemplation through maintenance. Changes are to be adopted as that can help and ease us doing our daily works.

Pre-contemplation:

When changes are expected for a group or families, people in this stage put their resistance towards the change and they don’t keep their interest. We will not even accept our current problems and we will continue with our current activities and habits.

Contemplation:

in the stages of change, it is considered as second stage. In this stage, we understand that we are currently facing some problem. We also can predict consequences or outcome of such issues, even we pursue such activities and habit, we become aware that such habit will lead to bring negative outcome. They feel uncertainties and here, we will perform some kind of analysis and think about that how we can achieve the positive result, if we give up our current habit and activities. So, in this stage, People use their thought, views and perform analysis to check the current issues.

Determination:

This is third stage of changes, here, they make themselves much prepared and determined, as people understand about the changes. They understand the benefits that can come from implementation of change. Hence, it’s time to get determined.

Willpower and Action:

Here, people will evolve with preparing several steps as needed to make changes in their group, team. They make themselves fully engaged in implementing necessary steps. This is fourth stage and in this stage, people become more action oriented and they increase their willpower, they just don’t accept the change, they get actively associated with implementation of changes.

Maintenance:

This last stage of changes, here, considered that changes are implemented by people and new status quos are generated, so, in such situation, we will maintain new status quo. They make themselves motivated with various good outcomes associated with the current changes. They build practices, rules as necessary to deal with new changes and avoid any issues with the newly implemented changes.