BACKGROUND A significant number of opioid-dependent patients in Iran are now being treated by methadone maintenance therapy (MMT). One of the social complications of substance dependency is family disorganization and a decrease in marital satisfaction. This study aimed to determine the effect of group therapy based on the transtheoretical model of change on family functioning of the patients un...

Previous research in the smoking cessation literature has shown that the key component of the transtheoretical model of change, the stage of readiness to change, is a valid independent measure (C. C. DiClemente & J. O. Prochaska, 1985; C. C. DiClemente et al., 1991; W. F. Velicer, J. S. Rossi, J. O. Prochaska, & C. C. DiClemente, 1996). Recently, however, other health service researchers (e.g.,...

In this study, it was aimed to evaluate the effect of motivational interview based on transtheoretical model stages performed suicidal behavior and stress coping styles depressed patients with high suicide risk. This experimental study conducted 72 a diagnosis depression. The data were collected "Personal Information Form", "Beck Suicidal Ideation Scale (BSIS)", "Stress Coping Strategies (SCSS)...

Direct practice social workers today are challenged to address the requirements of the complex array of professional, organizational, institutional, and regulatory demands placed on them in the broader socioeconomic context of fewer resources and diminished public support for social welfare services in the United States. The common factors model provides an accessible, transtheoretical, empiric...

A number of major health behaviour theories have been academically established and include the Health Belief Model (HBM), Self-efficacy Theory, the Protection Motivation Theory (PMT), the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB), Locus of Control, Sense of Coherence, and the Transtheoretical Model. The HBM was originally developed to predict the likelihood of patients’ participation in preventive heal...