Health Behavior Change
| By: | Pip Mason |
| Publisher: | Elsevier Limited (UK) |
| Print ISBN: | 9780702077562 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780702077579 |
| Edition: | 3 |
| Copyright: | 2019 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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