Mason, Pip
Health Behavior Change: A Guide for Practitioners
- ISBN 13:
- 9780702077562
- author:
- Mason, Pip
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- Elsevier Health Sciences
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2018
- Pages:
- 240
- Dimensions:
- 23.4 x 15.5 centimetres (0.52 kg
- Genre:
- Science, Medicine, General,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 4 working days
Description
Health Behavior Change by Pip Mason provides a practical guide to encouraging individuals to adopt and maintain positive behaviour change. Drawing on years of experience working with patients, this accessible book combines insights from communication, motivation, and the study of human behaviour to offer helpful advice on how to facilitate successful change. With its friendly writing style and abundance of real-life clinical cases, sample interviews, and evidence-based best practice, Health Behavior Change is an ideal resource for healthcare professionals and students alike. The book includes learning aids such as 'Useful Questions' boxes, 'Key Points' boxes, and downloadable Patient Worksheets to support learners in structuring consultations and applying the techniques in a variety of settings. Suitable for use in primary care settings, inpatient or outpatient departments, community health projects, A&E departments, leisure facilities, and occupational health clinics, this book is an essential resource for anyone looking to improve patient outcomes through behaviour change.