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PSY 361 Week 1 Assignment Promoting Health Behavior Change
PSY 361 Week 1 Discussion Resource Evaluation Discussion Board
Biopsychosocial Evaluation of Psychological Disorder
PSY 361 Week 2 Assignment Trauma and Stressor-Related Disorders
Focus on PTSD
Trauma and Stressor-related Disorders
PSY 361 Week 3 Assignment Health Care Profiles and Plans for Change
Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders
PSY 361 Week 4 Content Question Board Behavioral and Cognitive
Methods for Treating Pain
PSY 361 Week 4 Discussion Barriers to Utilizing Mental Health
Services

PSY 361 Week 5 Discussion Coping Strategies for Chronic and Life
Threatening Illness
PSY 361 Week 5 Final Paper Option A (Diabetes Mellitus and the
Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change)
PSY 361 Week 5 Final Paper Option B (Diabetes Mellitus and the
Health Belief Model)
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PSY 361 Week 1 Assignment Promoting Health
Behavior Change
PSY 361 Week 1 Assignment Promoting Health Behavior Change
Promoting Health Behavior Change. Prior to beginning your work on
this assignment, please read the assigned text chapters for Week One. In
addition, read pages 17-18 from the article, Theory at a Glance: A guide
for Health Promotion Practice (National Cancer Institute, 2005) .
This article includes information about the Transtheoretical model
(TTM), describing stages of change across a timespan, and the Health

Belief Model (HBM), describing perceptions determining an
individual’s behavior change relating to health and disease.
An additional resource includes the University of Rhode Island Cancer
Prevention Research Center’s Transtheoretical Model: Detailed
Overview.
Different biopsychosocial theoretical models have been developed to
assess individual perspectives on health promotion as well as to develop
effective interventions to support health promotion.
This assignment focuses on shared decision making (SDM) and the use
of decision aids (DA) in health promotion as well as the analysis of a
specific health promotion practice using two theoretical biopsychosocial
models.
Utilization of healthcare services in the form of immunizations will be
evaluated using the Healthcare Belief Model (HBM) and the
Transtheoretical Model (TTM) of Behavioral Change.
How does the consumer perceive and act upon vaccination
(immunization) recommendations as a health promotion activity?
For this assignment you must:
Create your paper by evaluating vaccinations as health promotion
practices.
Create an initial paragraph that presents a thesis related to vaccinations
as health promotion practices and explains how these practices impact
health related behaviors.
Complete the three attached tables: the Health Belief Model (HBM), the
Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change (TTM), and the Comparison
table.

When you have filled in the tables, you will be using the completed
tables in the body of your paper by selecting and copying all the content,
then pasting it into the body of your document.
Use the following resources to help guide your work.
Basics and common questions: Why immunize? For parents.
Summary of Recommendations for Child/Teen Immunization
Immunization schedules for infants and children in easy-to-read formats
Immunization schedules for preteens and teens in easy-to-read formats
Immunization schedules for adults in easy-to-read formats:
Vaccines & preventable diseases: Vaccines: the basics
Create your paper by evaluating vaccinations as health promotion
practices.
Create an initial paragraph which presents a thesis related to this and
how these practices impact health related behaviors.
Copy and paste your three completed tables into the body of your paper
beneath your thesis paragraph. Conclude your paper by distinguishing
how vaccinations are typically utilized across the lifespan from
childhood through adulthood and into old age.
Depending on the amount of content in your tables, your paper will be a
minimum of three pages excluding title page. A reference page is not
required unless you choose to use citations in your tables.

PSY 361 Week 1 Discussion Resource
Evaluation Discussion Board Biopsychosocial
Evaluation of Psychological Disorder
Biopsychosocial Evaluation of Psychological Disorder
Biopsychosocial Evaluation of a Psychological Disorder. Your grade
will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your
responses.
Before you begin, please reference the Discussion Forum Grading
Rubric for guidance on how your discussion will be evaluated.
Our text reading this week introduces the discipline of health
psychology and reviews body systems.
This subject content provides a foundation for exploring various topics
in health and illness, and how to evaluate health-related behaviors and
health promotion practices across the lifespan.
The biopsychosocial model of health psychology is described.

An historical overview of its development from preceding theoretical
models in psychology is provided.
We can evaluate individual healthcare choices and utilization of
healthcare services using this model. Utilizing the biopsychosocial
model, research a selected psychological diagnosis and evaluate health-
related behaviors and health promotion practices related to this condition
from the standpoint of associated biological, psychological, and social
factors.
First, select an individual psychological disorder that is found in Section
II of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 5 (DSM-5), accessed via the
Ashford University Library per the instructions indicated in the Required
Resources list for this week. (Section II has subsections with various
categories of different recognized neuropsychological conditions.
Be sure to open each section to scan the various disorders in each
subsection category.) After reading through the disorders in each
category, choose one for further study.
You may choose any disorder EXCEPT post-traumatic stress disorder
(PTSD) or the disorders listed in the category of
Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders. You will research your
selected disorder in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine publication. The
instructions below will assist you in your search.
Go to the Ashford University Library (either via the link in the left
navigation or the Student Portal)
Click the “Advanced Search>>” link under the FindIt@AU search box
Enter the name of the disorder you selected from the DSM-5 into the
first text box

Select “SU Subject Terms” in the drop-down menu next to your disorder
Enter Annals of Behavioral Medicine in the second box
Select “SO Journal Title/Source” in the drop-down menu next to the
publication’s name
Click the Search button
Click “Relevance” and choose “Date Newest”
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PSY 361 Week 2 Assignment Trauma and
Stressor-Related Disorders Focus on PTSD
PSY 361 Week 2 Assignment Trauma and Stressor-Related Disorders
Focus on PTSD
Trauma and Stressor-Related Disorders: Focus on PTSD. In this written
assignment, you will use a variety of resources on Posttraumatic Stress
Disorder (PTSD) to evaluate and answer a series of questions on a given

case study. PTSD is a recognized diagnosis in Section II: Trauma- and
Stressor-Related Disorders in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5).
Specific diagnostic criteria exist for adults and children. A great deal of
research has been done regarding risk factors for developing PTSD, as
well as the prevention and management of this condition. Utilizing
recognized resources relating to this disorder, a case study will be
analyzed.
Please look at these resources before beginning your work:
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
Helping children and adolescents cope with violence and disasters:
Police, fire, and other first responders:
What rescue workers can do
American Psychiatric Association. (2013). The Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. (5th ed.). Washington, D.C.:
American Psychiatric Publishing. Section II: Trauma and Stressor-
Related Disorders.
Helping children and adolescents cope with violence and disasters for
parents of children exposed to violence or disaster: What parents can do
Understanding school violence
Understanding youth violence
Coping with stress after a violent event

Case Study: Johnny is a 12-year-old student at Hometown Middle
School. Six weeks ago, he witnessed a fight lunch time between two
students at the adjacent table in the cafeteria.
During the fight, a knife was pulled and its use resulted in serious injury
to one of the students. Emergency medical services (EMS) were called,
and the student was removed via ambulance. Since that day, Johnny has
had frequent nightmares in which he revisits the fight scene. He has
refused to eat lunch in the cafeteria and instead hides in the bathroom
during the lunch hour.
Once this was discovered, he was brought to the guidance counselor, and
his mother was called to school. Johnny insists that the cafeteria isn’t
safe, and in discussion with the guidance counselor his mother mentions
that Johnny insists on keeping a kitchen knife at his bedside table.
Further evaluation of Johnny’s school performance demonstrates that his
grades have fallen from their usual level.
The biopsychosocial model of health psychology incorporates
biological, social and psychological factors. Based on these, evaluate the
health-related behaviors exhibited by Johnny in the scenario.
What health promotion (prevention) practices could be addressed? What
factors might influence Johnny and his mother’s utilization of health
care resources based on his developmental stage? Assess the scenario
and comment on how psychological methods might be employed to
assist Johnny in managing and coping with the situation.
Your assignment should include the sections listed below. Each section
will focus on stress-related behaviors, referral for services, risk factors,
and management and prevention of a stress-related disorder.
Answer the following questions, citing information from the specified
resource(s) to support your writing and any statements of fact. Each

question should be answered in a separate section, with a minimum of at
least one paragraph (minimum five sentences).
In addition to the specified resources for each section, you may include
additional scholarly or peer-reviewed references relating to the topic
question, but this is not required.
Be sure to synthesize the information provided in the class resources
regarding the factors affecting Johnny’s behaviors and choices.
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Evaluation Discussion Board Trauma and
Stressor-related Disorders
Trauma and Stressor-related Disorders
Resource Evaluation Discussion Board: Trauma and Stressor-Related
Disorders. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post
and the depth of your responses. Before you begin, please reference the
Discussion Forum Grading Rubric for guidance on how your discussion
will be evaluated.

The biopsychosocial model of health psychology incorporates
biological, psychological and social factors to evaluate health-related
behaviors and utilization of healthcare services.
Our text reading this week focuses on stress and its relation to physical
illness and psychological responses and coping. Using the Ashford
Library, access the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 5 (DSM-5) using
the instructions in the required resources section for this week and select
one of the disorders in the section titled: “Trauma- and Stressor-related
Disorders.”
You will research your selected disorder in the Annals of Behavioral
Medicine publication. The instructions below will assist you in your
search.
first text box
Enter Annals of Behavioral Medicine in the second box

Read and discuss one or more articles published within the last five
years in the journal listed above. If you are unable to find a current
article in this publication that focuses on your selected disorder, choose
another disorder or email the instructor for guidance.
Maintaining a focus on Health Psychology and utilizing the
biopsychosocial perspective, explain the stress-related condition and
your research of it from the standpoint of the biopsychosocial model
focusing on both the related biological and psychosocial aspects.
Evaluate and comment on behaviors related to the disorder.
Distinguish between the health care services options for this disorder
which are to patients available across the lifespan. Assess the
information presented in the literature and describe how psychological
methods and principles help patients manage and cope with this
disorder.
Your discussion should be a minimum of 300 words, and include
appropriate citations from the referenced article and DSM-5, as well as
any additional resources you choose to include in your discussion.
Provide all resources as references in APA format.
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PSY 361 Week 3 Assignment Health Care
Profiles and Plans for Change

PSY 361 Week 3 Assignment Health Care Profiles and Plans for Change
Health Care Profiles and Plans for Change. From your work in Week
One, you have already read about shared decision-making aids; the
Healthcare Belief Model (HBM) and Transtheoretical Stages of Change
(TTM). Review resources from the Week One assignment to assist you
in this assignment.
It is recognized that achieving and maintaining a normal weight is a
foundational goal of good health. The Healthy People 2020 initiative,
part of the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services, lists nutrition and physical
activity as one of the leading health indicators (LHI) for the U.S.
population. For this reason, many resources and decision aids have been
developed to assist the individual in achieving this goal.
Using the interactive Decision Aid at the Choose My Plate website, you
will use information from a case study to create a profile of an
individual, and develop a plan for achieving and maintaining a normal
weight through healthy diet choices and physical activities.
Please refer to these resources to assist you with your work:
Healthy People 2020: Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity
Healthy People 2020: About Healthy People
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Overweight and obesity:
Strategies and solutions for my community
United States Department of Agriculture: Choose My Plate (Note the
links for menus, videos, and more)

United States Department of Agriculture: SuperTracker (Create a profile
using specific individual data that provides recommended goals and
strategies for change to achieve and maintain a normal weight.)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Adult overweight and
obesity.
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Cancer
Institute. (2005) Theory at a glance: A guide for health promotion
practice
Your paper should be organized into two sections as outlined below.
Section One – Case Study: Using the SuperTracker online software at
the MyPlate website from the UDSA, create a profile with the
information provided in the case study below.
Case Study: Jane is a 55 year old female, who is 5’6” tall and weighs
205 pounds. She accumulates less than 30 minutes per day of moderate
activity exercise.
Once you have created the profile, you will receive dietary and physical
activity information. Using the data from the profile you created, answer
the following questions in the first section of your written paper:
What is Jane’s Body Mass Index (BMI)?
Is Jane underweight, normal weight, overweight, or obese?
What recommendations can we provide to improve Jane’s health (move
her towards a healthier weight)?
Section Two – Behavioral Change: Complete the following three tables
regarding the case study profile you developed in Section 1 of this

assignment. Copy and paste your completed tables into your assignment
paper.
Table: Transtheoretical Model (TTM) of behavior change
Table: Health Belief Model (HBM)
Table: Comparison Table (Effectiveness of the TTM and HBM in
describing and analyzing strategies to
move the individual towards achieving and maintaining a normal weight
Additional references are not required for this assignment. A separate
reference page is not required, unless you used citations to complete
your tables.
If additional references are cited, all sources must be documented in
APA style and listed on a separate reference page, as outlined in the
Ashford Writing Center.
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Evaluation Discussion Board Substance-Related
and Addictive Disorders

Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders
Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders. Your grade will reflect both
the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses.
Before you begin, please reference the Discussion Forum Grading
Rubric for guidance on how your discussion will be evaluated.
Much of our text reading this week focuses on substance use and
addictive disorders. Using the Ashford Library, access the Diagnostic
and Statistical Manual 5 (DSM-5) using the instructions in the required
resources section for this week and select one of the disorders in the
section titled: “Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders.”
You will then research your selected disorder in the Annals of
Behavioral Medicine or Behavioral Medicine publications. The
instructions below will assist you in your search.
first text box
Enter Annals of Behavioral Medicine or Behavioral Medicine in the
second box

Read and discuss one or more articles published within the last five
years in the journal listed above. If you do not generate an appropriate
article in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine or in the journal Behavioral
Medicine, remove the journal titles and complete a general search for
your disorder.
Be sure to check the boxes next to “Limit to Full Text” and “Limit to
Scholarly / Peer Reviewed”.
Utilizing the biopsychosocial perspective, explain the substance-related
or addictive disorder and your research (reference article) through the
model of health psychology. In your posting, analyze how the following
factors potentially contribute to risk for developing a substance use
disorder synthesizing research regarding these factors in order to support
your statements.
Biological factors
Psychosocial aspects
Prevention of the disorder
Treatment of the disorder
Reasons for relapse
Your initial post should be a minimum of 300 words and include
appropriate citations from the referenced article(s) and DSM-5, as well
as any additional resources you choose to include in your discussion.

Provide all resources as references in APA format. Additional sources of
information may be found in the recommended resources for Week
Three
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PSY 361 Week 4 Content Question Board
Behavioral and Cognitive Methods for Treating
Pain
PSY 361 Week 4 Content Question Board Behavioral and Cognitive
Methods for Treating Pain
Behavioral and Cognitive Methods for Treating Pain. This is a Content
Question Board. Please view the instructions for interacting with this
type of discussion forum here.
Writing the Content Question Answer and Providing a Response:
Content Question Answer Posting: The focus of this Content Question
Discussion Board activity will be on pain treatment strategies.
You will be posting on the approach to pain management that is listed
below with the first letter of your last name. In your discussion, assess

how psychological methods might be effectively employed to assist
patients to manage and cope with pain. Be sure to distinguish how you
might utilize your strategy differently with patients across the lifespan.
Last Names beginning with:
A through C: Operant Approach (techniques to extinguish pain behavior
and reinforce well behavior)
D through F: Fear Reduction (reducing fear of pain to minimize
behaviors that worsen function)
G through J: Relaxation and Biofeedback (techniques to reduce stress)
K through N: Cognitive – active coping (distraction, non-pain imagery,
and/or pain redefinition to modify the
pain experience)
O through Q: Cognitive – pain acceptance (cognitive strategies to
promote pain acceptance and improve
functioning)
R through T: Hypnosis, Stimulation Therapies, and/or Animal-assisted
U through Z: Interpersonal Therapy (talk therapy to promote insight into
the pain experience)
Your original post should be a minimum of 300 words.
You must include a minimum of one scholarly or peer- reviewed
reference published within the last five years to support your work. All
references should be cited in APA format as outlined by the Ashford
Writing Center.
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PSY 361 Week 4 Discussion Barriers to Utilizing
Mental Health Services
PSY 361 Week 4 Discussion Barriers to Utilizing Mental Health
Services
Barriers to Utilizing Mental Health Services. Some of our text reading
this week focuses on the utilization of health care services and the
different settings in which these services are delivered.
Using the Ashford Library, search the ProQuest database to identify at
minimum one peer-reviewed article published within the last five years
that focuses on one of the factors listed below in terms of its potential
for creating a barrier to the utilization of mental health services:
Gender (sex) as a barrier to the utilization of mental health services
Lifespan (age) as a barrier to the utilization of mental health services
One comorbidity or multiple comorbidities (additional diagnoses either
mental/psychiatric/behavioral/developmental or physical) as a
barrier/barriers to the utilization of mental
health services

Severity of mental or physical illness as a barrier to the utilization of
mental health services
Sociocultural factors (financial, transportation, cultural) as a
barrier/barriers to the utilization of mental
health services
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PSY 361 Week 5 Discussion Coping Strategies
for Chronic and Life Threatening Illness
PSY 361 Week 5 Discussion Coping Strategies for Chronic and Life
Threatening Illness
Coping Strategies for Chronic and Life Threatening Illness. The focus of
this discussion activity is on research regarding the coping strategies
utilized by those diagnosed with a chronic illness. Analyze one (or
more) peer-reviewed article(s) that investigates coping strategies utilized
by those with chronic illness.

Search the Ashford Library, using the ProQuest and EBSCOhost
databases using the following keywords as assigned below according to
the first letter of your last name.
Last Names beginning with:
A through D: Coping; HIV; AIDS
E through H: Coping; cancer
I through L: Coping; heart disease
M through P: Coping; kidney disease
Q through T: Coping; spinal cord injury U through Z: Coping; arthritis
To look for peer-reviewed articles in the library:
Access the Ashford Library via the online course or the Student Portal
Click on the link at the top of the page that says “Find Articles & More”
On this page, click on “Databases by Subject”
Click on the link for “Psychology”
First search – use the EBSCO Host database:
Put your keywords into the search box (e.g., punishment discipline)
Scroll down to the middle of the page and look for an area that says
“Limit Your Results”
In this area, check BOTH boxes: Full Text AND Scholarly (Peer
Reviewed) Journals

Now click the green “search” button at the top
A list of articles appears – on the top of the list is a link called
“Relevance” – click on this and a drop-
down menu appears – choose “Date descending” to order the articles by
most recent date
Choose articles published within the last five years – to obtain the
individual articles you want, click on
the “PDF Full Text” icon to get the article (save on your computer)
Second search – use the ProQuest database:
Put your keywords into the search box (e.g., punishment discipline)
Scroll down to the middle of the page and look for an area that says
“Search Options”
In this area, check THREE boxes: Full Text AND Peer Reviewed AND
Scholarly Journals
Now click the orange “search” button at the top
A list of articles appears – on the right side of the page, use the drop-
down box to “sort results by” and
choose Publication date (most recent first)
Choose articles published within the last five years – to obtain the
individual articles you want, click on
the “PDF Full Text” icon to get the article (save on your computer)

Assess how biological, psychological, and social factors related to the
disorder impact the effectiveness of coping strategies. As you construct
your post, synthesize the research findings you found with regard to the
factors affecting health-related behaviors and coping strategies. Evaluate
the health-related behaviors associated with coping strategies for your
topic illness and explain how you might use the biopsychosocial model
of health psychology to guide the development of individual coping
options.
Your discussion should be a minimum of 300 words, and include
appropriate citations from the referenced article(s), as well as any
additional scholarly and/or peer-reviewed resources you choose to
include in your discussion. Provide all resources as references in APA
format
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PSY 361 Week 5 Final Paper Option A (Diabetes
Mellitus and the Transtheoretical Model of
Behavior Change)
PSY 361 Week 5 Final Paper Transtheoretical and Health Belief Models
in Chronic Illness

Focus of the Final Paper
The course of illness can be influenced by biological, psychological,
and/or social factors covering a broad range of topics that include stress,
coping, and behaviors that either promote health and prevent illness, or
contribute to the development of clinical problems. Health and wellness
are important to our daily lives and this is true even in the context of
being diagnosed with a chronic illness such as diabetes mellitus. The
interplay between emotions, cognitive, and behavioral/physical factors
can affect all aspects of health and illness.
Individual differences such as culture, ethnicity, lifestyle, religion,
gender, identity development, financial status, and social support should
be considered when analyzing the individual’s response to a chronic
illness. Numerous research studies have investigated the impact of one
or more of these factors in terms of the effect on chronic disease
outcomes.
These outcomes can include symptom management and/or progression
of the severity of the disease.
Explanatory theories often describe factors that contribute to health
problems, or interfere with prevention activities, and thus provide targets
for change. One such theory is the Health Belief Model (HBM) which
addresses perceptions of the health problem.
These perceptions include the degree of threat in terms of susceptibility
and severity, any benefits to be obtained by avoiding the perceived
threat, and various internal (e.g., self-efficacy) and external (e.g.,
barriers to care) factors that influence the individual’s decision to act.
Other theories emphasize motivations that influence a continuum of
stages of behavioral change.
The Transtheoretical Model (TTM) of behavior change is a theory of
this type. The response to chronic illness and the illness experience itself

can be described by these models. In managing chronic disease, there are
coping strategies and behavior changes that support optimal outcomes
and therapeutic interventions can be designed for greater effectiveness
by using these two models.
The assignment:
For your paper you will choose from the two options below. The option
you choose will provide the focus and title for your paper.
Option A: Diabetes Mellitus and the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior
Change
Option B: Diabetes Mellitus and the Health Belief Model.
PSY 361 Week 5 Final Paper Option B (Diabetes
Mellitus and the Health Belief Model)
PSY 361 Week 5 Final Paper Transtheoretical and Health Belief Models
in Chronic Illness
Focus of the Final Paper

The course of illness can be influenced by biological, psychological,
and/or social factors covering a broad range of topics that include stress,
coping, and behaviors that either promote health and prevent illness, or
contribute to the development of clinical problems. Health and wellness
are important to our daily lives and this is true even in the context of
being diagnosed with a chronic illness such as diabetes mellitus. The
interplay between emotions, cognitive, and behavioral/physical factors
can affect all aspects of health and illness.
Individual differences such as culture, ethnicity, lifestyle, religion,
gender, identity development, financial status, and social support should
be considered when analyzing the individual’s response to a chronic
illness. Numerous research studies have investigated the impact of one
or more of these factors in terms of the effect on chronic disease
outcomes.
These outcomes can include symptom management and/or progression
of the severity of the disease.
Explanatory theories often describe factors that contribute to health
problems, or interfere with prevention activities, and thus provide targets
for change. One such theory is the Health Belief Model (HBM) which
addresses perceptions of the health problem.
These perceptions include the degree of threat in terms of susceptibility
and severity, any benefits to be obtained by avoiding the perceived
threat, and various internal (e.g., self-efficacy) and external (e.g.,
barriers to care) factors that influence the individual’s decision to act.
Other theories emphasize motivations that influence a continuum of
stages of behavioral change.
The Transtheoretical Model (TTM) of behavior change is a theory of
this type. The response to chronic illness and the illness experience itself
can be described by these models. In managing chronic disease, there are
coping strategies and behavior changes that support optimal outcomes

and therapeutic interventions can be designed for greater effectiveness
by using these two models.
The assignment:
For your paper you will choose from the two options below. The option
you choose will provide the focus and title for your paper.
Option A: Diabetes Mellitus and the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior
Change
Option B: Diabetes Mellitus and the Health Belief Model.
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