PSYCO105 Study Guide - Final Guide: Cardiovascular Disease, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

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In 1980, james prochaska and carlo diclemente began to study the process that occurs as people change their thoughts, feelings and behaviours in positive ways, either on their own or with the professional help. Their research resulted in a transtheoretical model containing 6 stages of change in behaviour. The model does not assume that people go through the stages in a smooth sequence. Many people move forward and backward through the stages as they try to change their behaviour over time and make repeated efforts to change. Protect psychological well-being (momentary moods and state of mental well-being)/ solve social problems (transmission of std)/ changing the high-risk behaviour that transmit diseases through sex. Aids: (cid:1007)(cid:1009). (cid:1007) (cid:373)illio(cid:374) (cid:449)o(cid:396)ld(cid:449)ide (cid:1008),(cid:1007)(cid:1004)(cid:1004) deaths / da(cid:455) caused (cid:271)(cid:455) human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) . Incubation period between initial infection and the appearance of the disease can be as long as 10 years.