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Processes and Stages of Change: Counseling With the Transtheoretical Model of Change
Author(s) -
Petrocelli John V.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6678.2002.tb00162.x
Subject(s) - transtheoretical model , eclecticism , psychology , intervention (counseling) , psychotherapist , behavior change , perspective (graphical) , social psychology , computer science , philosophy , theology , artificial intelligence , psychiatry
Technical eclecticism and theoretical integration literature has typically examined how multiple approaches to counseling practice may lead to more comprehensive and functional outcomes. Few have proposed an integration of approaches from a scientist‐practitioner perspective; many others have neglected the richness found in the body of existing theory. The purpose of this synthesis is to highlight the contributions that the Transtheoretical Model of Change (J. O. Prochaska & C. C. DiClemente, 1984; J. O. Prochaska & J. C. Norcross, 1994) has for technical eclecticism and theoretical integration. The intervention implications of processes and stages of change are discussed.