demonstrate your understanding of how the lifestyle change process can promote health by using informed problem solving to make a personal lifestyle change. The activities in this lesson will help you complete the assignment. It will take you approximately three weeks to complete your project.
In this assignment, you will apply the problem identification, problem analysis, action planning, and evaluation steps of the Four Step Problem Solving Model. The questions, instructions, and suggested schedule below are provided to guide you through the problem solving process and to help you develop your final project report as you work on each step.
To complete this assignment, you are expected to:
Identify a specific health issue.
Analyse the specific health issue in relation to your holistic health.
Propose an action plan.
Provide initial evaluation of your plan.
Your plan must include an achievable goal, appropriate motivators, a realistic schedule, and an evaluation strategy.
To complete this assignment, you are expected to apply the Four Step Problem Solving Model ( it is an attached file) over a three week period to make a positive lifestyle change. Critical required project tasks are to:
Identify a specific lifestyle behaviour change goal and the main related health issue(s).
Analyse the behaviour and main health issue(s) in relation to your holistic health.
Develop and carry out a lifestyle change action plan.
Provide initial evaluation of your lifestyle change goal and action plan.
Write a project report that shows how you applied self-assessment, self-reflection, and informed problem-solving skills, to making a positive personal lifestyle change.
Lesson 13 ( attached file) provides more detailed information and a suggested schedule on how and when to work through the assignment.
Assignment Submission
Making a change in lifestyle choices and behaviours can have some intensely personal aspects. In your project report, we recommend that you include only information you feel comfortable sharing. Use Lesson 13 to help you organize your project report.
The Project Report must include:
An introductory paragraph that states the assignment topic, identifies a specific lifestyle behaviour that you want to change, states the main related health effects across the five health dimensions, and explains why you chose this behaviour for your change project.
A description of the health benefits likely to result from making a positive change, and the health disadvantages of not making change. Also describe the challenges that may occur, and identify the support that you need or want from others to achieve success.
A SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely) lifestyle change goal statement and brief description of the positive health outcome(s) that you want to achieve.
A summary description of your lifestyle change action plan.
An evaluation of your lifestyle change experience as you worked through this assignment.
A concluding paragraph that includes a brief description of what you learned about the lifestyle change process by completing this assignment. Tell how this learning might be useful in providing health care services to others, and give any other feedback you may want to offer on your learning and/or the usefulness of this assignment.
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