Topic: Getting back into a fitness routine post-surgery
· Strengths
· Weaknesses
· Overall PST program objectives.
You must apply each of the following psychological tools, explaining the reason and expected outcome. In addition, you must organize your program into the three phases of PST as described below.
1. Behavior Modification
To change an individual’s behavior and reaction to both positive and negative experiences.
Reinforcement, backwards chaining, shaping, goal-setting for target behaviors…
2. Cognitive Evaluation Theory
Changing thinking, behavior, and emotional responses…developing a list of errors in thinking,
assessing/developing intrinsic motivation, perception of competence, self-determination, and controlling and informational aspects of rewards…
3. Rational Emotive therapy
People get upset by how they construct their views and the feeling, and language they use.
