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Health behavior change : a guide for practitioners a guide for practitioners/ by Pip Mason, Christopher Butler, Stephen Rollnick - 2nd.edition - Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier, c2010 - xi, 221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Revised edition of: Health behavior change / Stephen Rollnick, Pip Mason, Christopher Butler. 1999

Includes Bibliographical references and Index

CONTENTS
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 practise this approach--
11.Calls from the consulting room--
12.Example of a consultation.

Particularly relevant to US practice, this book offers a description and demonstration of a method for changing health behaviours based on brief negotiation with clients

ISBN: 9780702031533 9780443058509 0702031534 0443058504

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Health Behavior
Behavior Therapy
Behavior modification
Psychological Techniques
Health and Fitness
Health attitudes

LC Class. No.: RA776.9.M37 2010