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Profil spremnosti klijenta za promenu i preferencija tipičnih procesa promene
The profile of client's readiness for change and preference to typical processes of change

Author(s): Vesna Gavrilov Jerković
Subject(s): Cognitive Psychology, Clinical psychology, Substance abuse and addiction, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Društvo psihologa Srbije
Keywords: stages of change; processes of change; readiness to change;

Summary/Abstract: In the theoretical part of this paper author considers the difficulties to define phenomenon of patient's readiness to change and proposes dimensions of transtheoretical model of change, that is, stages of change and processes as conceptual frames for exceeding those difficulties. Through the research author investigates the possibility to identify typical profiles of patient's readiness from the data about measured levels of particular stages of change. The results infer that several typical profiles of readiness can be identified and that it is possible that these profiles could be connected with tendency of patients to prefer passive or action-restructure processes of change.

  • Issue Year: 37/2004
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 89-108
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Serbian