Motivational Interviewing in Health Care

Much of health care today involves helping patients manage conditions whose outcomes can be greatly influenced by lifestyle or behaviour 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) in this book, and show how to incorporate this brief evidence-based approach into any health care setting. It features appendices that include MI training resources and publications on specific medical conditions.

ISBN 1593856121   Pages 210 ISBN13 9781593856120 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Guilford Publications   Weight (grammes) 314 Imprint Guilford Publications   Published in New York Format Paperback   Series title Applications of Motivational Interviewing Publication date 10 Jan 2008   Height (mm) 234 Library of Congress 2007020536   Width (mm) 156 DEWEY 362.104256   Spine width (mm) 14 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

Pt. I		Behavior Change and Motivational Interviewing
1		Motivational Interviewing: Principles and Evidence		3
2		How Motivational Interviewing Fits into Health Care Practice		11
Pt. II		Core Skills of Motivational Interviewing
3		Practicing Motivational Interviewing		33
4		Asking		44
5		Listening		65
6		Informing		86
Pt. III		Putting It All Together
7		Integrating the Skills		111
8		Case Examples of a Guiding Style		121
9		Getting Better at Guiding		140
10		Beyond the Consultation		157
		Epilogue: Some Maps to Guide You		173
Appendix A		Learning More about Motivational Interviewing		177
Appendix B		A Topical Bibliography of Research on Motivational Interviewing		183
		Index		205

"I highly recommend this book for any practitioner dealing in health behavior change. In a conversational style with numerous helpful examples, the authors translate complex psychological concepts into easy-to-understand terms that will support and guide health care practitioners in improving their consultations with patients. The book is also a 'must' for the shelves of undergraduates and graduate students alike who are interested in motivational interviewing within the world of health care practice." - Judith Carpenter, registered dietitian, Derbyshire County Primary Care Trust, UK "Many of today's leading causes of death are significantly related to modifiable health behaviors. This book provides a critical approach for helping patients change their behavior. Motivational interviewing (MI) provides a new alternative to the outdated direct persuasion approach, bringing a breath of fresh air to the conversation between health care providers and those with chronic diseases like diabetes and obesity. Practical examples and exercises make this book a powerful tool for use in educating medical students, nurses, and other health care professionals about encouraging patients to make healthy choices." - Robert Gabbay, Executive Director, Penn State Diabetes and Obesity Institute, Pennsylvania State College of Medicine, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA

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