Content:
Interpersonal theories: 1. Social Cognitive Theory
2. Theories of social networks and social support
1. 社会认知理论
原理：Personal factors, human behaviors and environmental influences all operating as interacting determinants of each others. - reciprocal determinism.
Human beings are self-orgnaizing, proactive, self-reflecting and self-regulating.
· Self-reflective: make sense of their experiences, explore their cognitions and self beliefs, engage in self-evaluation and alter their thinking and behavior.
· Self-regulative : the process of planning,monitoring and changing one's behaviors and cognitions to correspond with abilities, the environment, and desired outcome.
Key constructs of SCT: *Affects self-regulation
1. Reciprocal determinism
Potential change strategies for reciprocal determinism- multiple ways
2. Observational learning (modeling)* Behavioral acquisition that occurs by watching the actions and outcomes of others' behavior.
Potential change strategies:offer credible models
Vicarious learning in observational learning: to learn a novel behavior without undergoing the trial and error. The 4-step process: Attention,Retention,Reproduction,Motivation
3. Self-efficacy* Confidence in one's ability to take action and overcome barriers.
Potential change strategies: approach behavior change in small steps to ensure success and hence confidence-building; Be specific about the desired change.
4. Behavioral Capability* knowledge and skill to perform a given behavior.
Potential change strategies: Promote mastery learning through skills training and provision of relevant knowledge and information.
5. Outcome Expectation* Anticipated outcomes of a behavior.
Potential change strategies: Model positive outcomes of healthy behaviors.
6. Reinforcements* Response to a person's behavior that increase or decrease the likelihood of reoccurrence.
Potential change strategies: Promote self-initiated rewards (praising/applauding) and incentives.
Comments on Social Cognitive:
· comprehensive theory and little concrete components;
· difficult to include all the components in an intervention
· lack of testing for the entire theory
· relationship among key constructs not clear