<span>Human behavior plays a central role in the maintenance of health, and the prevention of disease. With an eye to lowering the substantial morbidity and mortality associated with health-related behavior, health professionals have turned to models of behavior change to guide the development of strategies that foster self-protective action, reduce behaviors that increase health risk, and facilitate effective adaptation to and coping with illness. Several decades of concerted effort to promote health and decrease risk through individual behavior change have produced successes, failures, and lessons learned.</span>
<u>Answer) D</u>
Coping is when someone pretends or does something else rather than what they are supposed to do.
Example - Jasmine's mom told her to do her homework, instead she cleans her room to avoid the homework.
<span>Based on my understanding, communicating 4 or 5 times per day is not absolutely critical to proper communication. So long as the individual learning is understanding how to be more proactive, the number of times communicated is not a critical function.</span>
