To address this issue, NIAAA led the way at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in shifting the focus of behavioral treatment research to identifying the mechanisms of behavior change rather than encouraging more comparisons of different psychotherapy approaches (Willenbring 2007).
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a form of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy that includes a specific therapeutic process, "psychological flexibility," and focuses on behavior change rather than symptom reduction.
As demonstrated in interventions to reduce children's screen time, emphasis is placed on incentives for the process of behavior change rather than outcomes, by using frames to enhance intrinsic motivation such as perceived choice and control, individualization, fantasy and contextualization, challenge, curiosity, and cooperation and competition.
For example, to control malaria, one has to prevent transmission of the disease (vector control and behavior change) rather than control the disease after transmission has occurred.
This means that the focus is on why an activity leads to behavior change rather than what type of activity it is.
Moreover, data from neighboring countries with HIV epidemics in a similar stage as Uganda did not show comparable declines in early sexual debut and number of sex partners nor subsequent declines in HIV prevalence, further suggesting that behavior change rather than mortality was the cause of the decline in HIV prevalence seen in Uganda [ 20].
The DPP was successful in showing that diabetes can be prevented, the CEO continued, but it was a behavior change program (rather than drug) and was thus challenging and expensive to roll out.
"If they think what we're about is regime change rather than changing the behavior of the regime, they're likely to hunker down," said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the delicacy of the matter.
As pairs of mutant males were used rather than one mutant and one wild type, it is also possible that the rejection behavior of the courted male has changed rather than that of the courting male.
To make sure this increase was caused by the tax change rather than other trends, Professor Eissa compared it with the behavior of women in the 75th percentile, who got a much smaller tax cut.
