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Advantages of current behaviour or situation |
Disadvantages of current behaviour or situation |
What do you enjoy about your behaviour right now? |
Is there anything that is not so good about your behaviour/situation at the moment? |
What are the good things about your behaviour at the moment? |
What are the disadvantages of your current behaviour/situation |
What are some of the reasons for things staying as they are? |
What impact does this have? |
How does this make you feel? |
What concerns do you have about (current behaviour/issue)? |
Disadvantages of Change |
Benefits of Change |
What would be the worst thing about changing? |
What would be the benefits of changing? |
What effect would this have? |
What difference would this make to you? |
What other negative aspects would there be? |
What other advantages might there be? |
What is stopping you at the moment from making changes? |
What would need to happen to make change a priority for you? |
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Is there anything you found helpful in any previous attempts to change? |
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(Adapted from Health Behaviour Change: A Guide for Practitioners, Mason and Butler, 2010)
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