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Pro-Change is assisting Vital Decisions in its mission to help empower seriously ill patients and their families to exert control in the decisions associated with their care at the end of life and to align these care decisions with their personal preferences and values. Pro-Change will design Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change assessments for identifying a patient’s stage of readiness to...

The U.S. Office of the Secretary of Defense has selected Kerry E. Evers, Ph.D., Director at Pro-Change Behavior Systems, Inc. as one of 50 leaders from across the country to participate in the 76th Joint Civilian Orientation Conference (JCOC) September 19 to 26th. The oldest existing Pentagon outreach program, JCOC has been held 75 times since its inception in 1948. This prestigious conference...

Recently eight major articles were published in peer reviewed journals that tested and supported fundamental theoretical, empirical, and practical applications of the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change (TTM). Using cutting edge methodologies these studies demonstrate how TTM is continuing to advance the field’s ability to understand, predict, and change risk behaviors critical to the...

Members of Pro-Change Behavior Systems, Inc. recently presented to standing room only audiences at the Society of Behavioral Medicine Annual Conference in San Diego. Topics ranged from depression prevention to multiple health risk intervention to smoking cessation. Also presented as part of symposia were findings on theory-based approaches to health interventions across various communication...

Pro-Change has received a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to develop a computer-based tailored intervention to promote healthy behaviors during pregnancy. The pilot program will be conducted in July and August 2008 at sites of the Community Health Center, Inc., one of the leading health care providers in Connecticut. Focus groups and interviews with underserved...

The Journal of Preventive Medicine’s (AJPM) March 2008 issue is a special issue on multiple behavior change. All three articles submitted by Pro-Change were accepted and appear in this special issue. Until recently, there was no programmatic research demonstrating the effectiveness of interventions designed to simultaneously change two or more target behaviors. In this special issue, the...

The National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices, a service of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), recently gave high ratings to the Pro-Change Stress Management Program. Supported by a grant from the National Cancer Institute, the Pro-Change Stress Management Program assists individuals in managing their stress more effectively using practices...

President Elvira Craig de Silva of the National Association of Social Workers has appointed Janice M. Prochaska, Ph.D., President and CEO of Pro-Change Behavior Systems, Inc., as one of the seven members of the Social Work Editorial Board. The Social Work journal, established in 1956, is the professional journal published by the National Association of Social Work (NASW), which is provided to...

Drs. Janice and James Prochaska of Pro-Change Behavior Systems Inc., along with Paul Mastrangelo, Ph.D. of Genesee Survey Services, Inc. will present a Master Tutorial on How People Change: In the Workplace at the 23rd Annual Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) Conference in San Francisco on April 12, 2008.

The journal of Preventive Medicine in early 2008 will publish a special issue on multiple behavior change. All three articles submitted by Pro-Change were accepted. They include: Transtheoretical Model-based Multiple Behavior Intervention for Weight Management: Effectiveness on a Population Basis; Relationships Among Multiple Behaviors for Childhood and Adolescent Obesity Prevention; and Initial...