Health Behavior Change: A Guide for Practitioners | 
| Authors: Stephen Rollnick, Pip Mason, Christopher Butler, Chris Butler
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 63466
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 225
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 0443058504
Dewey Decimal Number: 610
EAN: 9780443058509
ASIN: 0443058504
Publication Date: June 15, 1999
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Product Description
This book is the first in its field to offer practitioners a patient-centered method for changing a patient's health behavior. Using brief, structured consultations with the client, the practitioner encourages the patient to take charge of decision-making concerning his/her health. The text clearly outlines the fundamental principles behind the method while applying it to practice.
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 Book review August 10, 2008
A must have for NP school. Great book. Thanks Amazon for providing the best prices and great services.
Easy guide to challenging practices April 4, 2007
Useful basics for any professional whose work with patients requires cooperation. Health practitioners working to improve their ability to assess, motivate, and educate patients as partners for better health outcomes will want to read this honest, practical yet reflective book twice - and then again - while trying out its ideas, practicing, and growing into its approach to care. Useful both for persons in training and already in practice.
 Excellent or Flawed? - Depends on your perspective April 2, 2006
12 out of 24 found this review helpful
It's a bit unusual for me to agree with customer reviews that both praise and criticize a book, but in this case I do. On the one hand, Rollnick et al, have done an amazing job of applying motivational interviewing and stages of change theory to the short interchanges common with patients in a medical setting. For those readers already well-versed in stages of change, this is an excellent and thought-provoking approach. I believe many "counselors" of various stripes would benefit from the applications advocated in this book.
On the other hand, I found the theoretical foundation wholly inadequate. While I appreciated the attempts of the authors to carefully distinguish between evidence-based substantiation of their guidelines and the weaker suggestions based on clinical practice, I felt that there was a preponderance of the latter.
I was also overwhelmed by the repetition included in the three final "application" chapters. Surely there is a better way to present this material! Frankly, the final chapters are so tedious to read that I suspect the average medical professional tends to conclude this volume with a less-than-enthusiastic feeling regarding the guidance.
My advice is to read through chapter 5, at the most, and to consult chapters 6-8 only after encountering specific problems in applying the techniques provided.
 not that great, not much "guide"ance June 21, 2002
11 out of 29 found this review helpful
This book gave helpful perspectives regarding doctor-patient communication, but was not very enlightening. The problem might be that it was written from the perspective that the doctor is always correct, and the patient is always some poor sap who needs to be enlightened and trained as you would a child. I don't see this book awakening the human within some budding physician and transforming the physician into some effective communicator. The worst part was how many pages it took to convey helpful information.
This is surprising because the motivational interviewing video training from these authors is exemplary. Maybe the video approach did not transfer well to book.
I gave it more than one star because it does have good strategies in it, and I believe reading it would be better than reading nothing.
Great book, indeed July 15, 2001
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
A simple, easy, and yet deep, thought-provoking book. ONLY ONE of this kind.I am tring hard to implement some of their methods in Japan.
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