by Amanda Smith
Human behavior plays a central role in the maintenance of health and the prevention of disease. Growing evidence suggests that effective programs to change individual health behavior require a multifaceted approach to helping people adopt, change, and maintain behavior. For example, strategies for establishing healthy eating habits in children and adolescents might be quite ineffective for changing maladaptive eating behaviors—that is, when they are used to substitute one pattern for another—in the same population
Health behaviors are actions individuals take that affect their health. They include actions that lead to improved health, such as eating well and being physically active, and actions that increase one’s risk of disease, such as smoking, excessive alcohol intake, and risky sexual behavior.
Family influences on the development of emotion can be seen in parenting practices, emotional family climate, and different emotional learning experiences. Particularly, supportive parenting and parental involvement play an important role in the development of emotional competence in adolescents.
Family Health: “a state of positive interaction between family members which enables each members of the family to enjoy optimum physical, mental, social and spiritual well being.”
Models of behavior change have been developed to guide strategies to promote healthy behaviors and facilitate effective adaptation to and coping with illness. Several models for individual behavior change are reviewed here.
'Family Lifestyle' is written for parents who want to increase their health behavior in their marriage or relationship. For parents who believe and are committed to change their own behaviour in order to see a change in their life. For parents who want to be a better partner, to be a better parent, but most of all to be the best person they want to be.
This book will give you insights and exercises to improve health behavior while being the best parent possible.
To be a happier parent, to be a happier partner, to be in a happy 'Family' but ultimately to be the happiest person you want to be.
Awareness is the first step to CHANGE.
