Making lasting changes is not easy. Regardless of whether the changes you want to make impact your personal or professional life, change takes substantial time and effort. Creating lasting change may ...

Motivation is a mysterious force — sometimes it’s like a wave at the ocean, pushing you toward your goal. Other times, it disappears and dissolves into nothing. Or its undertow pulls you out to sea, ...

When someone asks you to change something about yourself, you can respond in a variety of different ways. Reactions can range from being angry and resistant to being interested and excited. Change is ...

As many readers know, my doctoral research area was focused on health behavior change. Specifically, I was interested in finding ways to inspire groups of people to become physically active. One of ...

One of the most groundbreaking HIV prevention strategies for HIV?negative gay and bisexual men (GBM) is a once?daily pill called pre?exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), which is up to 99% effective in the ...

Columbus, OH—Scott Gerhard, MA, LSW, of our Center will present a training session, titled "Why Won't My Clients Do What I Tell Them To?," at a meeting of the Ohio Chief Probation Officers Association ...

Change isn’t easy, especially when it involves breaking habits. Anyone who has ever made a New Year’s resolution knows this ­all too well. What you may not know is that, according to research on ...

In a recent study published in BMC Public Health, researchers performed a systematic-type review to evaluate the efficacy of behavior change interventions (BCIs) for smoking cessation in pregnant ...