Behavior Change Plan – Part One – Kamille Ward

Due Date: ____________________ Total Points – 20

Directions: To answer these questions, review the Pre-Participation Screening and Wellness Questionnaires and use MI
through discussions with your client. Type thorough answers for each question. You MUST attach the Pre-Participation
Screening and Wellness Questionnaires to receive credit for this assignment.

A. List the reasons your client is in the SHU Personal Training Program. Based on your motivational interviews,
what are the underlying motivations for his/her participation in the program? (2 pts)
- To feel better mentally
- To relieve stress/increase energy
- To improve strength/lose body fat
B. What are your client’s intrinsic motivators (doing something for the reward inherit in the activity itself) for
exercise? How are you incorporating these into your client’s program? (2 pts)
- Feeling good after a workout/feeling healthier
- Using the time to focus only on working out and put aside everything else in life
o Motivating her before and during a workout by ensuring her that she will feel much better
after it is complete
C. Using the table on page 69 of the Coaching Psychology Manual, state your client’s reasons to stay the same and
reasons to change his/her behaviors. Do not compute composite scores. (2 pts)
- Reasons to stay the same:
o No work needed to be put in/ content with where she is in life
o Easier not to show up for sessions than complete the workout
- Reasons to change:
o To feel better, relieve stress, improve strength and lose body fat
o Improve overall health
D. Using the confidence ruler on page 70 of the Coaching Psychology Manual, provide your client’s confidence
number for a critical behavior he/she wants to change. Why did he/she not pick a lower number? What would
assist your client to get a higher number? (2 pts)
- Improve strength
o 7
o Already beginning to see changes occur in her body and completing better reps during
workouts
o It would help my client if she were to complete another day of strength training during the
week by herself

E. Transtheoretical Model: Stages of Change, Self-Efficacy, Decisional Balance

Review your client’s wellness questionnaire entitled “The Exercise Questionnaire” which contains information on
stage of change, self-efficacy, and decisional balance (last pages). This information can be used to successfully
move your client into the direction of a physically active lifestyle or help him/her maintain exercise behavior.
Use the scoring system below to identify your client’s stage of change at the beginning of the semester:
If 1-4 = No = Precontemplation
If 1,3,4 = No and 2 = Yes = Contemplation
If 1,2 = Yes and 3 = No = Preparation
If 1,2,3 = Yes and 4 = No = Action
If 1,2,3,4 = Yes = Maintenance
Stage of change: Contemplation

1. Based on the definition of “regular exercise” in the Exercise Questionnaire, do you agree that this was the
client’s stage of change at the beginning of the semester? If no, which stage do you think your client is in?
Explain (1 pt)
Yes I agree that she was in the contemplation change. She saw things that needed to be fixed but
wasn’t committed to fixing them.
2. Which stage of change do you think your client is in now? Explain. (1 pt)

I believe that my client is still in the contemplation stage. She often cancels on meetings and knows that she wants
to fix certain aspects but is not committed to a plan of action on how to fix them. Because she is in the
contemplation stage at this point, her goals will be harder to achieve.

3. Briefly summarize what you found from the self-efficacy questions (number 6a-e). Does your client have a
high, moderate or low self-efficacy towards exercise? What can you do to help your client improve/maintain
his/her self-efficacy based on the answers to the questions? (2 pts)

She is fairly confident that she can exercise in most situations. My client has a moderate self-efficacy
towards exercise. I can provide motivational cues to my client during her exercises which will make her
feel more confident. I can motivate her especially when she is tired because that is when she struggles the
most with self-efficacy.

4. Briefly summarize what you found from reviewing the decisional balance data (number 7). (1 pt)
PROS = a, b, d, e, f, h, i, j, l, n
CONS = c, g, k, m, o, p
My client scored low for most of the cons except the “I feel uncomfortable when I exercise because I get
out of breath and my heart beats very fast.” This shows me that she has made the decision to exercise
regardless of most situations.

5. Choose another health/fitness related behavior that your client is working on that is not considered regular
aerobic exercise. State the behavior and determine the stage of change for this specific behavior. Explain
how you came to this conclusion. (2 pts)
- To relieve stress with more regular PA in general ; the stage of change that she is in for this specific
behavior is also contemplation. She has not increased her physical activity therefore relieving stress is
harder to achieve.

6. Answer the three questions in the box on page 41 in the Coaching Psychology Manual with regard to this
health/fitness related behavior. (2 pts)
- To feel healthier overall
- It is easier to not exercise and not find the time in her day to do it
- Create a routine… plan out a time in each day beforehand to set aside to exercise

7. Comment on your client’s self-efficacy with regard to this health/fitness related behavior. (1 pt)
- She has a low self-efficacy towards this behavior. She wants to exercise more but isn’t sure how to go
about it and when she will have time to do it.

8. List and describe which coaching skills for behavior change you will implement to help your client with this
behavior. (2 pts)
- Get excited about changing overall health and more PA
- Help come up with more reasons to change
- Help come up with benefits of change
- Accomplish small tasks and goals before big ones