128. Prochaska’s Model of Change
Concept
JO Prochaska was a clinical psychologist who focused on addictive behavior. His experience in dealing with addicts led him to conclude that that kind of deeply entrenched habitual behavior was likely to be so strong that attempts to change it would be cyclical, that is, steps forward and then steps backward. One could therefore expect a kind of spiraling around growth and retreat in the change process.
When one adds hard-wiring genetics to early childhood developmental habits, human behavior becomes hard to change. The DRD2 gene has been closely linked to alcoholism and other addictive behaviors.28 Prochaska concluded from his clinical practice that one must first contemplate and desire a change and then ...
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