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Summary:

Much of health care today involves helping patients manage conditions whose outcomes can be greatly influenced by lifestyle or behavior change. Written specifically for health care professionals, this concise book presents powerful tools to enhance communication with patients and guide them in making choices to improve their health, from weight loss, exercise, and smoking cessation, to medication adherence and safer sex practices. Engaging dialogues and vignettes bring to life the core skills of.

Table of Contents:

• pt. 1. Behavior change and motivational interviewing
• 1. Motivational interviewing : principles and evidence
• 2. How motivational interviewing fits into health care practice
• pt. 2. Core skills of motivational interviewing
• 3. Practicing motivational interviewing
• 4. Asking
• 5. Listening
• 6. Informing
• pt. 3. Putting it all together
• 7. Integrating the skills
• 8. Case examples of a guiding style
• 9. Getting better at guiding
• 10. Beyond the consultation
• Epilogue : Some maps to guide you
• Appendix A : Learning more about motivational interviewing
• Appendix B : A topical bibliography of research on motivational interviewing
• Index.

Author/Creator:

Rollnick, Stephen, 1952- , author

Contributors:

Miller, William R. (William Richard) , author

Butler, Christopher, 1959- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Motivational interviewing in health care: helping patients change behavior [by Rollnick, S.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Motivational interviewing in health care [by Rollnick, S.] (New York : Guilford Press, ©2008 — ISBN 9781593856137; ISBN 159385613X; LCCN 2007020536; OCLC Number 132681469)

Related Series:

Applications of motivational interviewing

Subjects:

Health counseling

Motivational interviewing

Health behavior

Behavior modification

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-204) and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 210 pages) : illustrations.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

R727.4 .R65 2008eb

ISBNs:

9781593858575 (electronic bk.)
1593858574 (electronic bk.)
9786611963255
6611963251
9781593856137 (hardcover, alk. paper) [Invalid]
159385613X (hardcover, alk. paper) [Invalid]
9781593856120 (pbk. alk. paper) [Invalid]
1593856121 (pbk., alk. paper) [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

[Unknown Type]: 9786611963255

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2007020536

OCLC Numbers:

311868057