Health Behavior Change: A Guide for Practitioners

by Mason, Pip

• ISBN13: 9780702031533
• ISBN10: 0702031534
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-01
• Publisher: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE

Summary

This extremely popular book provides health professionals with patient-centred methods you can use to promote behavior change. Drawing on the spirit of motivational interviewing and incorporating best practice as described by current experts in communication skills, the approach is designed to be used during brief healthcare consultations in hospital and community settings.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Principles	p. 11
Getting started: rapport and agendas	p. 41
Assessing importance, confidence and readiness	p. 55
Exploring importance and building confidence	p. 71
Exchanging information	p. 99
Reducing resistance	p. 111
Ending the consultation	p. 127
Common clinical encounters	p. 135
Learning to practice this approach	p. 171
Calls from the consulting room	p. 181
Example of a consultation	p. 193
Appendices: patient worksheets	p. 207
Index	p. 215
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