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Weight management and psychological flexibility

Weight management and psychological flexibility. R aimo Lappalainen Professor in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy Department of Psychology University of Jyväskylä , Finland. Behavioral case formulation and motivation for change. Limited Exercise. Contextual analyses

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Weight management and psychological flexibility

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  1. Weight management and psychological flexibility Raimo Lappalainen Professor in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy Department of Psychology University of Jyväskylä, Finland

  2. Behavioral case formulation and motivation for change

  3. Limited Exercise Contextualanalyses ”weight in context”: Get a largerpicture over the weight management problem Weight Problems: overweight Health problems High Caloric Intake: Depressive mood Worried about the future Negative self-image: Negative thoughts Family/Social Stressors: Relationship with the spouse Social Isolation Impaired Social Relationships Loss of workplace Social Skills Deficits

  4. Limited Exercise Contextualanalyses: Theremightbeotheror additional alternatives for intervention Weight Problems: overweight Health problems High Caloric Intake: Depressive mood Worried about the future Negative self-image: Negative thoughts Family/Social Stressors: Relationship with the spouse Social Isolation Impaired Social Relationships Loss of workplace Social Skills Deficits

  5. Consider weight or weight management problem in context

  6. Model

  7. Model Buildindividual reinforcers for lifestyle changes

  8. Psychologicalflexibility

  9. Essi Sairanen, Raimo Lappalainen, Anja Lapveteläinen, Asko Tolvanen, & Leila Karhunen (2014). Flexibilityin weightmanagement. Eating Behaviors 15, 218–224 The aim was to achieve an understanding about the mechanism of change during weight maintenance, especially related to control and flexibility.

  10. Results These results suggest that an increase in flexible control during weight loss and a reduction of rigid control after an active weight loss phase may enhance well-being. In other words, the ability to increase flexible control and ability to give up rigid control may be beneficial to weight management and well-being.

  11. Different behavioral change strategies may be needed over time Behavioral Change Strategy 1 Behavioral Change Strategy 2 Behavioral Change Strategy 3

  12. Mobile- and web- basedinterventions Combining mobile- and web – based interventions with some personal contact

  13. Vision: Web- and Mobile psychologicalinterventions

  14. Vision: Web- and Mobile psychologicalinterventions Training skills in daily life

  15. Lappalainen et al. (Accepted): Depression symptoms, Face-to-Face vs. mainlyweb-based intervention. BehaviourResearch & Therapy Face-to-Face Web-based

  16. Conclusions Advantages of using case formulation models > broader interventions (Develop) programs for increasing motivation for change Interventions should teach flexible strategies, what are these strategies in practice and how to teach them? Advantages of using web- and mobile-interventions Combine all these together

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