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Pro-Change Trains Health Counselors in Brazil
South Kingstown, RI - October 21, 2013. In September, Pro-Change Behavior Systems, Inc. provided two onsite trainings to 80 AxisMed Health counselors and 70 life coaches, at the request of Carevolution, a São Paulo, Brazil Wellness Company that offers Wellness Coaching training and services. The course entitled, Basic Transtheoretical Model Training, provided coaches and other health...
Pro-Change Will Present at the CCA Conference
South Kingstown, RI - October 10, 2013. The Care Continuum Alliance is hosting its annual conference, CCA Forum 2013, October 23-25 in Scottsdale, Arizona, with the theme, "The ROI of Population Health: Implementation Matters." In their call for abstracts, the Care Continuum Alliance asked for "creativity, innovation, and inventiveness. Attendees want hands on learning and presentations that...
Pro-Change’s Founder James O. Prochaska Receives Prestigious Award
South Kingstown, RI - September 25, 2013. James O. Prochaska, PhD, Founder of Pro-Change Behavior Systems, Inc. received the 2013 Outstanding Contribution to Health Psychology Award from the American Psychological Association. The award honors an individual who has a long and distinguished career of scientific contributions. Prochaska pioneered the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change, an...
Pro-Change Partners with McGraw-Hill Higher Education to Distribute liveWell Program
South Kingstown, RI - September 18, 2013. Pro-Change Behavior Systems, Inc. is now licensing its liveWell program to McGraw-Hill Higher Education for distribution to college and university students as an adjunct to their textbooks. liveWell: A Healthy Foundation for Life is an innovative online multimedia program designed to help college students improve their well-being by exercising regularly,...
Pro-Change and Cooper Consulting Partners to Partner, Improve Corporate Health
Partnership adds renowned behavior change model to Cooper Consulting Partners' Leading a Fit Life Program South Kingstown, RI - September 6, 2013. Pro-Change, an internationally-recognized behavior change company and Cooper Consulting Partners, a health management consultancy, part of Cooper Aerobics, has announced a partnership that will further empower businesses and their employees to make...
Pro-Change’s Smoking Cessation Program Also Effective for Psychiatric Patients
South Kingstown, RI - August 21, 2013. HealthDay News recently reported the results of a new study from the American Journal of Public Health (http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2013.301403). The study showed that psychiatric patients who participated in Pro-Change Behavior System's individually tailored smoking cessation program while they were hospitalized for treatment of a...
Pro-Change’s CEO Given Achievement Award by Providence Business News
South Kingstown, RI - August 8, 2013. Janice M. Prochaska, PhD, President and CEO of Pro-Change Behavior Systems, Inc., was one of twelve women who received an Achievement Award at the 5th Annual Providence Business News Business Women's Awards luncheon. The event spotlighted twelve talented and dedicated women working in southeastern New England. Prochaska was recognized for being well ahead of...
Pro-Change’s Drs. Prochaska Featured in Health Literacy’s 100th Podcast
South Kingstown, RI - August 1, 2013. Health Literacy Out Loud's 100th podcast, titled "Stages of Change and Health Communication," went live July 30, 2013. In the podcast, James O. Prochaska, PhD, Founder of Pro-Change and Janice M. Prochaska, President & CEO talk with Helen Osborne about: What the Stages of Change model is and how it got started Why the Stages of Change model is relevant...
Pro-Change’s Comments on the Rand Study “Do Wellness Programs Work?”
South Kingstown, RI - June 27, 2013. A growing number of sources are suggesting that wellness programs do not work. Can we answer in the affirmative that wellness programs do work? The Rand Report (http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR254.html) clearly indicates that such a sweeping claim cannot be supported. But why would one assume that such a heterogeneous field - filled all too often...
Pro-Change, Care New England, and VAL Health to Pilot an Innovative Smoking Cessation Program
South Kingstown, RI - June 12, 2013. This month, Care New England will launch a pilot of an innovative smoking cessation program for its health plan members. The program integrates Pro-Change's evidence-based behavior change program, including individually tailored text messages with VAL Health's unique approach to incentives. Pro-Change's Smoking Cessation Program...