1. Health
Improvement Plan
Courtney Leloff

2. Client Overview Gender: Female Age: 45 years old
Highest Grade Completed: 2 Year College
Chief Complaints: No energy throughout the day, high blood pressure

3. Health History Height: 5’7’’ Weight: 175 Pounds
Bilateral Mastectomy on September 6th 2013 at Good Samaritan Hospital
High blood pressure after the surgery
No energy after surgery

4. Research
Changing Your Habits: Steps to a Better Health
Changing Your Clients’ Eating Behaviors
“Write down your progress. This can be one of your most important tools for staying on a healthy path. Recording progress serves as a good reminder, helps to keep you focused”(Changing Your Habits: Steps to a Better Health, Page 5).
“Teach clients the value of using smaller plates ad serving utensils at home. For drinks, suggest they use tall, narrow glasses. Research indicates that decreasing plate and glass sizes may make people believe they are getting a larger portion simply because their dish or glass is full”(Changing Your Clients' Eating Behavior, Page 1).

5. Research
Changing Behavior: Using Motivational Interviewing Techniques
Individual and Community Models for Dietary Behavior Change
“Belief in Ones ability to make a change and stick to it is fundamental to that change. You may want to use this as an outcome of a motivational interview intervention, as increased self-efficacy is predictive of improved mental health”(Changing Behavior: Using Motivational Interviewing Techniques, Page 45).
“This model is consistent with the overall sequencing of interventions, in which initial activities emphasize awareness and motivation, followed by opportunities for action, and later promoting maintenance of change”(Individual and Community Models for Dietary Behavior Change, Page 82).

6. Eating Healthier and exercising weekly for four weeks
Target Behavior
Eating Healthier and exercising weekly for four weeks

7. Behavior Theory Transtheoretical Model (“Stages of Change”)
Pre-contemplation
-Are unaware of the dangers of their behavior or are
willing to change in the foreseeable future
Contemplation
-When they are seriously starting to consider changing and intend to do so in the next six months
Preparation
-People make goals to change soon
Action
-You are acting on your plan and making changes you set out to achieve
Maintenance
-When the new behavior ahs become “normal”
Termination
-No longer any temptation to return to the old behavior

8. Intervention Plan
Review you plan and keep an activity journal or food diary to track your progress
Believe you can change
Limit portions
Ask friends or a family member for help if needed
Reward yourself when you have completed your goal

9. 4 Week Short Term Goal Week 1-May 14th
-Eat less sugar and exercise (walking or riding bike)
Week 2-May 21st
-continue the goal
Week 3-May 28th
-Chart diet and exercise for the last week
Week 4-June 4th
-Continue the goal and try to improve

10. Intervention highlights
Client showed progress by exercising more
Client changed diet and ate healthier
Felt better and more energized

11. Results Client (Pseudonym): Miranda Smith Date Exercise Diet
Thursday 5/29/14
Walked ½ mile
Yogurt, raspberries, chicken and veggies
Friday 5/30/14
Yogurt, muffins, popcorn, chicken tacos
Saturday 5/31/14
Walked 1 mile
Pancakes, turkey sandwich, roast beef sandwich
Sunday 6/1/14
Did yard work
Gyro, chicken, potatoes, veggies, salad
Monday 6/2/14
Chicken tacos, pad Thai, yogurt
Tuesday 6/3/14
Raspberries, beef hot dog, sesame salad with chicken
Wednesday 6/4/14
Yogurt, pizza, sesame salad, chicken taco

12. Results X Week 1 Days exercised Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Sunday Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Week 1
Week 2 X
Week 3
Week 4

13. Personal/Professional Analysis
Using the articles helped me through creating an intervention plan
I feel good that the client showed improvement with changing their health behavior
Using the Health Behavior theories helped me
I wish I would’ve gotten more articles
I wish I would’ve done more research about the health behavior

14. APA Citations
Changing Your Habits: Steps to Better Health. (2008, May 1). WIN. Retrieved May 13, 2014, from Gallagher, K. (2007, April 1). Changing Your Clients' Eating Behaviors. . Retrieved May 13, 2014, from Bundy, C. (2004, January 1). Changing behaviour: using motivational interviewing techniques. . Retrieved May 13, 2014, from Glanz, K., & Eriksen, M. (n.d.). Individual and Community Models for Dietary Behavior Change. . Retrieved May 13, 2014, from