The Person, Health and Wellbeing

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Introduction
The transtheoretical model of change and motivational interviewing techniques are the
primary approaches applied by practitioners in guiding and assisting people in changing their
behavior. According to Gill, Williams, & Reifsteck, motivational interviewing entails the
counseling approach aiding practitioners to solve clients’ resistant feelings to have the
motivation and change their behavior (2017). While the transtheoretical model assesses
individuals’ enthusiasm to accept healthier behavior and provide guidance strategies by using
stages of change. The two approaches are linked and have a collaborative approach in indecisive
counseling clients. The TTM and MI aid in the provision of an evidence-based framework for a
practitioner to assist clients who are resistant to change. More so, the two approaches accept
clients’ contemporary motivation and levels of readiness, hence helping clients to reduce
resistant. Therefore this essay analyses evidenced-based literature to support the transtheoretical
model of change and motivational interviewing techniques to help Harry through the stages of
change cycle to maintenance.
Primarily, planning occurs in steps that need to be implemented to induce change.
Chiefly, the clients are involved actively in changing their behaviors. The primary step is taking
an action which entails invoking change and picking the first procedure to put change into place.
In the action stage, Harry the client, need to change his eating behavior and needs to maintain the
actions changed. More so, Harry may exhibit this change by modifying his problem behavior and
acquiring different healthy behavior. According to Allanwood, & Beare, action efficiency can be
increased if the applied transition in love for food is appropriate to the location of the individual

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(2014). Therefore, Harry needs to change is love for food though he loves food and works as a
chef having food around all the time.
The other step within the Transtheoretical cycle is maintenance. Chiefly, maintenance
emphases on the favorable implication of the client’s plans, and success (Potts, & Ankrah, 2014).
Delaney & Madigan argue that, maintenance incorporates a period where there is the sustenance
of new behavior for a few months, and it becomes a permanent lifestyle change (2015).
Sometimes maintenance is hard, and individuals struggle with old behavior signs. For instance,
an individual who has quitted smoking for about four months may have an urge to smoke a
cigarette after attending a party and having a drink. Therefore as the practitioner in Harry's
situation, I have the role of reframing a mechanism as an opportunity for understanding better
and reviewing the management of risky situations.
Moreover, there is a need to be a plan for relapse and implement long term goals
matching the client’s value. According to Krovitz-Neren, the relapse phase happens when the
client slips back to his old behavior, and though it is common, it needs to be treated as an
ongoing change process (2017). The reframe of relapse is a slip hope that the obstacles are just
like bumps on the way and the client need to learn from his experience. As a result, the client
will have no desire of returning to unhealthy eating habits, and there is a surety that relapse will
not occur. Therefore my responsibility is to govern this step by encouraging Harry to identify,
avoid what triggers decline, and learn from his mistakes. Besides, I need to be understanding and
assist the client in normalizing his feelings for a change. In addition, I will bring positive
statements of Harry aspiration to change.
However, the pre-contemplation step is vital in the transtheoretical model of change and
motivational interviewing techniques. In the pre-contemplation stage, clients don’t intend taking