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.

Level: Advanced
ISBN: 1593856121
ISBN-13: 9781593856120
Format: Paperback, 210pp
Publisher: Guilford Publications, Inc.
Pub. date: 2007

Content
Part I. Behavior Change and Motivational Interviewing
Chapter 1. Motivational Interviewing: Principles and Evidence
Chapter 2. How Motivational Interviewing Fits into Health Care Practice
Part II. Core Skills of Motivational Interviewing
Chapter 3. Practicing Motivational Interviewing
Chapter 4. Asking
Chapter 5. Listening
Chapter 6. Informing
Part III. Putting It All Together
Chapter 7. Integrating the Skills
Chapter 8. Case Examples of a Guiding Style
Chapter 9. Getting Better at Guiding
Chapter 10. Beyond the Consultation

Dietetic professionals
CPE Level: 3
Suggested Commission on Dietetic Registration Learning Need Codes: It is the sole responsibility of the dietetic professional to determine the learning need code met by a course. numedix.com provides the following "suggested" codes, but the professional can deviate from them if they feel another need is met.
1040 Cultural sensitivity
1060 Foreign language, cultures
1070 Leadership, critical and strategic thinking
4000 Wellness and public health
4030 Dietary guidelines, DRIs, Food Guide Pyramid, food labeling
6000 Education, training and counseling
6010 Behavior change theories, techniques
6020 Counseling, therapy and facilitation skills
6030 Education theories and techniques for adults
6040 Education theories and techniques for children and adolescents
6050 Instructional materials development
7040 Consultation