Time for a change: putting the Transtheoretical (Stages of Change) Model to rest.

By Robert West. Addiction, 2005

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions

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Changing environmentally harmful behaviors: A stage model of self-regulated behavioral change (2013, background): “Because of its prominence, most of this controversy revolves around TTM (e.g., Littell & Girvin, 2002; Weinstein, Rothman, & Sutton, 1998; West, 2005; Wilson & Schlam, 2004).”
An improved brief measure of cannabis misuse: the Cannabis Use Disorders Identification Test-Revised (CUDIT-R). (2010, result): “These results may reflect the conceptual difficulties (e.g. West, 2005) faced by the transtheoretical model of behaviour change underlying the scale (Prochaska and DiClemente, 1986), but do not undermine the importance of motivation as a clinical concept, which has been demonstrated to be a strong…”
Motivation and Autonomy in Counseling, Psychotherapy, and Behavior Change: A Look at Theory and Practice 1ψ7 (2011, background): “…widely used by practitioners and advocated by some scholars (e.g., Spencer, Pagell, Hallion, & Adams, 2002), the SOC model and the TTM more broadly have been increasingly criticized (e.g., Armitage, in press; Sutton, 2001; Weinstein, Rothman, & Sutton, 1998; West, 2005; Wilson & Schlam, 2004).”
Theories of behaviour and behaviour change across the social and behavioural sciences: a scoping review (2014, methodology): “For example, the theory appearing most frequently in our review, the TTM, has been criticised on several grounds (West, 2005) and its empirical support has been questioned by systematic review findings (e.g., Cahill, Lancaster, & Green, 2010; Etter & Perneger, 1999; Littell & Girvin, 2002;…”
Psychological Well-Being and Internet Addiction among University Students. (2013, background): “Addiction is defined as person's or being's feeling of necessity for something (like another person, substance, internet, sex, etc.) in order to sustain her/his existence and continue her/his way of existence as she/he desires (West, 2005).”
Impulsivity, Frontal Lobes and Risk for Addiction (2009, background): “This model of behavioral change has been criticized for focusing on conscious decision making and planning (West, 2005), when addiction involves associative learning of unhealthy habit patterns that become entrenched and semi-automatic through repetition (Robinson and Berridge, 2003).”
Behaviour change theory and evidence: a presentation to Government (2013, background): “Approaches such as the ‘stages of change’ model that propose an orderly transition in behaviour change, only account for a small proportion of instances of behaviour change and can lead to inappropriate interventions (West, 2005).”
Motivational interviewing with offenders: A systematic review (2009, background): “…of change model has been criticized generally as flawed in that change does not occur in genuine stages, it focuses too much on decision-making and not enough on implicit processes (e.g. when stimuli trigger responses outside conscious awareness), and it may misdirect interventions (West, 2005).”