Pro-Change Behavior Systems, Inc. founder James P. Prochaska, Ph.D., and Senior Vice Presidents Kerry Evers, Ph.D., and Sara Johnson, Ph.D., delivered break-out sessions and research reports at the 21st Annual Art and Science of Health Promotion Conference on March 23-25, 2011 at The Broadmoor, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Over the course of three days, a series of keynote lectures, breakout sessions, and poster sessions addressed the conference theme, “Capturing the Wisdom of Practice and the Rigor of Research: Discovering the Best Health Promotion Strategies.” Two sessions were delivered by Prochaska on “Breakthroughs in the Science of Health Behavior Change” and “Breakthroughs in the Practice of Health Behavior Change”; two sessions by Evers on “The Science of Well-Being: Impact on Productivity” and “The Science of Well-Being: Implications for Program Development”; and a research report by Johnson on “Options for Tailoring Multiple Behavior Change Interventions: How Can We Maximize Co-Variation?”
Poster sessions were also presented on three of Pro-Change’s programs: “Randomized Trial of a Computer-Tailored Intervention for Patients with Depression” (Deborah A. Levesque, Ph.D., et al.); Development and Usability Testing of a Financial Well-Being Intervention Combining the Wisdom of Practice and the Rigor of Science” (Sara S. Johnson, et al.), and “Proactive Health Consumer: Research and Development of an Innovative Program” (Carol Cummins, et al.).
About Art & Science of Health Promotion Conference
The Annual Conference, organized by the American Journal of Health Promotion, has a long standing tradition of bringing together practitioners, scientists, and educators from across disciplines to learn and share their experience with health promoters. For more informaton, please visit http://www.healthpromotionconference.org/.