
- 256 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
About this book
This well-established book presents practical and evidenced-based approaches to the use of motivational techniques within the healthcare and leisure/sports settings. Designed to help patients take positive steps towards a healthier lifestyle, this helpful paperback presents the latest research and recommendations in an easy-to-read, 'hands on' approach, rich with real-life clinical cases. Health Behavior Change also comes with a website which contains downloadable patient worksheets, together with a video demonstration of the techniques being used.
- Perfect for brief consultations in the healthcare and sports setting
- Abundance of practical examples – showing both good and bad practice – illustrate how the techniques can be used to optimum effect even with patients who are 'difficult to reach'
- Useful 'dialogue' between practitioner and patient illustrate points of theory
- Contains a chapter on how to learn the technique, including potential barriers to success
- Discusses the frustrations encountered in practice and provides practical tips on how to control emotion
- Ideal for use in the primary care setting, inpatient or outpatient departments, community health projects, the A&E department, leisure facilities or occupational health clinics
- Fully updated throughout with the latest research and evidence base for best practice
- Updated clinical examples reflect recent developments in public health
- Now available with an EVOLVE© website containing a helpful video demonstration of the techniques being used and downloadable Patient Worksheets
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Yes, you can access Health Behavior Change E-Book by Pip Mason in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Medicina & Enfermería. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Biography
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Principles
- Chapter 3. Getting started: rapport and agendas
- Chapter 4. Assessing importance, confidence, and readiness
- Chapter 5. Exploring importance and building confidence
- Chapter 6. Exchanging information
- Chapter 7. Reducing resistance
- Chapter 8. Ending the consultation
- Chapter 9. Common clinical encounters
- Chapter 10. Learning to practice this approach
- Chapter 11. Calls from the consulting room
- Chapter 12. Example of a consultation
- Chapter 13. Discussion sheet Ms Rees
- Appendices: patient worksheets
- Index