Summary: The Precaution Adoption Process Model

On Wednesday, November 11, 2015, The Fifth Annual Jackie Thompson Wellness Lecture was held in the Sandburg Theatre, at Western Illinois University Union. There was a speaker by the name of James DiTulio. He is the Director of WIU Counseling Center. In his presentation, called “The Art of Living with Eyes Wide Open,” he covers the ideas of an individual’s psychological and emotional well-being. His main focus was to really focus on positive thinking. I believe that his presentation was similar to the PAPM Model, The Precaution Adoption Process Model. The reason I state this is by this model being determined by a mental state. This stage theory is how a person comes to the decision to take action. This behaviors is aimed at protecting themselves.
The audience was Unware, Stage 1, of some of the vocabulary in the beginning. One of the vocabulary was Mental Hygene, which means maintaining of psychosis or any other mental disorders. Unengaged, Stage 2, some people are aware but do not have a personal engagement. He tells us about major Depression, which tends to be a mood disorder causing persistent feeling of sadness and shrinkage of interest of the things we like to do. Deciding about Acting, Stage 3, he told us all to close our eyes, and think of who
He gave us some examples which was Consciousness Raising, a person who had Cancer, this is a negative into a positive due to the fact this person had a second chance at life. A person in a fire, even though the house is burnt down, the person is alive and not harmed. Another example of Dramatic Relief, a young woman that had to get all of her limbs cut off. In the beginning, this was a hard thing to get use to especially the first time standing with her artificial legs. But afterwards when she got the ability to stand again, a smile was on her face. She looked at life differently and was happy she was able to stand