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Chapter 5.Preparation

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    Discussion of the Clinical Case | Suggestions for Treatment | Suggestions for Teaching and Supervision | Movie: 28 Days | Multiple-Choice Questions | References

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    In this chapter, I discuss the preparation stage (experimenting with small changes), which is before the action stage (taking a definitive action to change) and after the contemplation stage (weighing benefits and costs of behavior and the proposed change). Note that the preparation stage was not an original part of the Stages of Change. Precontemplation, contemplation, action, and maintenance were in the early version of the Stages of Change model, whereas the preparation stage was added later (DiClemente 1991).

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