Question

Larry is a client with whom you have been working for the past three months. During that time, he has cancelled or failed to show up for approximately 20% of scheduled workout sessions with you. Recently, Larry’s work commitments have increased and he informs you that he will not be exercising until his work load decreases. In which stage of the transtheoretical model of behavioral change would Larry CURRENTLY be categorized?

Answer 1

Answer:

Larry would be categorised as being in the contemplation stage .

Explanation:

What happens in the contemplation stage?

In the contemplation stage people plan to embark on a journey to restore their healthy behaviour and they usually plan to do this in the near future than In a distance future .

They start to admit that they have strayed away and this this causing serious issues for them.

As they start to weigh and evaluate disadvantages and advantages that can be brought by changing the current negative behaviour they start to change .

Even though they may choose to embark on this change but they may still have some mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about this change.

Larry is probably experiencing those mixed feelings as he starts to pull back and not come to the sessions.

He is probably still thinking whether he should be doing this or not so there is a conflict within.