Health Behavior Change Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 3rd Edition

• 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

1. Introduction

2. Principles

3. Getting started; rapport and agendas

4. Assessing importance, confidence and readiness

5. Exploring importance and building confidence

6. Exchanging information

7. Reducing resistance

8. Ending the consultation

9. Common clinical encounters

10. Learning to practice this approach

11. Calls from the consulting room

12. Example of a consultation

Appendices: Practitioner and Patient Worksheets