What to read after Health Behavior Change E-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