A habit learned can be unlearned. One influential model of change may also help make sense of the high failure rate of New year resolutions. The authors suggest that for successful change to occur people need to pass through each stage in turn. The kinds of problems presented most commonly were anxiety symptoms and depression connected with career progress, work organisation problems, workload, work environment and work relationships. It is some weeks since 1 st January 2001, a time when many people make New year Resolutions.
Resolutions generally take the form of an increase or decrease in some kind of behaviour.
Symbolically, New Year means New Start for many of us, as if the opening of a new twelve-month period magically endows us with the ability to implement personal change. Criticisms and concerns of the transtheoretical model in light of recent research. British Journal of Addiction 87, 825-835. Given the potential excesses of New Year s Eve celebrations, the likelihood is that people are setting themselves up for failure. The processes of change model is perhaps a salutary reminder for us all that we are fallible human beings for whom change may require a bit more effort than merely stating the intention to change.