In the Treatment of Alcohol and Drug Addiction
In the Treatment of Alcohol and Drug Addiction
The Transtheoretical Model for Behavior Change (TTM) and the Health Belief Model (HBM) are both popular models used in health care for changing behaviors. Professionals in the field of addiction, alcohol and drug, commonly refer to both models in their treatment of addicts. Both models are useful and have both positive and negative aspects.
The Transtheorietical Model states that there chronological stages that a person will travel through as they battle an addiction (Korcha, Polcin, Bond, Lapp & Galloway 2011). The first stage is pre-contemplation, the addict is active in their addiction
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