SLT incorporates 11 concepts with specific implications for potential intervention strategies, including environment, expectations, reinforcements, and self-efficacy. These concepts affect the interaction between individual cognitive factors, behavior, and the environment through direct, small-group settings. Witness Role Models, as defined by this theory, promote healthful norms and learning through skills training and they give positive social reinforcement for desired behaviors. Health Behavior and Health Education. Individuals move from one level to another and cycle back around over time.
Appropriate activities encourage behavior change at certain levels.
We hypothesize that many rural AA women reached in churches are at a precontemplative level of change. At this level, they require consciousness raising, dramatic relief, and environmental reevaluation in an intervention program, rather than a direct action, such as providing a mammography van on site. The theoretical model is being investigated as part of the current WP research program.