Motivational Interviewing in Health Care: Helping Patients Change Behavior by Stephen Rollnick {9781593856120} {1593856121}
- Type: Paperback.
- Publisher: The Guilford Press; Illustrated edition
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 motivational interviewing (MI) and show how to
incorporate this brief evidence-based approach into any health care
setting. Appendices include MI training resources and publications on
specific medical conditions.
This book is in the Applications of
Motivational Interviewing series, edited by Stephen Rollnick, William
R. Miller, and Theresa B. Moyers.