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Title: Health Behavior Change: A Guide for Practitioners by Stephen Rollnick, Pip Mason, Chris Butler ISBN: 0-443-05850-4 Publisher: Churchill Livingstone Pub. Date: 15 June, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Full of practical ideas for clinicians
Comment: Helping patients change health-related behavior is a universal challenge for health care providers. In this extremely practical book, Rollnick and colleagues present a method for helping patients change based on the principles and "spirit" of Motivational Interviewing.
After presenting the basic concepts, each chapter focuses on a different task in the consultation process, from building rapport and setting an agenda to increasing motivation for change while minimizing resistance. The techniques presented are intended for use in brief consultations, but may be adapted for more extended encounters. Numerous clinical examples illustrating applications in diverse settings (and even some showing how NOT to do it) bring each strategy to life. Always respectful of the busy practitioner, the authors suggest ways for you to benefit from the book even if you have just a few hours to spend with it, and they encourage "creative adaptation" rather than "slavish adoption" of their approach.
If you want to become better at helping people change health-related behavior, and are new to a Stages of Change or Motivational Interviewing-based approach, this is a great place to start. If you have some experience with Motivational Interviewing, you will find a simplified model, a fresh take on familiar strategies, and probably some new ideas too. Reviewed by Deborah Van Horn, originally posted 3/6/02.
Rating: 2
Summary: not that great, not much "guide"ance
Comment: 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.
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.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great book, indeed
Comment: 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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Title: Motivational Interviewing, Second Edition: Preparing People for Change by William R. Miller, Stephen Rollnick, Kelly Conforti ISBN: 1572305630 Publisher: Guilford Press Pub. Date: 12 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $36.00 |
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Title: Changing for Good by James O. Prochaska, John Norcross, Carlo DiClemente ISBN: 038072572X Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Lifestyle Change (Rapid Reference Series) by Chris Dunn, Stephen Rollnick ISBN: 0723433186 Publisher: Mosby Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Health Behavior and Health Education : Theory, Research, and Practice by Karen Glanz, Barbara K. Rimer, Frances Marcus Lewis ISBN: 0787957151 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 23 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $52.00 |
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Title: Quantum Change: When Epiphanies and Sudden Insights Transform Ordinary Lives by William R. Miller, Janet C'deBaca, Janet C'de Baca ISBN: 1572305053 Publisher: Guilford Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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