Lifestyle Change

📖 The Scoop

Helping patients to improve their lifestyles, by reducing unhealthy behaviours and starting healthy ones, is an important factor in improving long-term outcome. This pocketbook is a Rapid Reference guide for understanding behaviour change counselling and putting it into practice in the primary care setting. Part I covers the rationale for behaviour change and evidence for its effectiveness. Part II is a guide on how to implement a successful behaviour change encounter and Part III provides tips for specific clinical situations, including relapse and medication adherence discussions.

• Expert information succinctly written for ease of use.
• Abundant use of bulleted lists and short tables, for quick access to comparative information.
• Presents evidence-based sources for practice where available, either through research or best-practice guidelines.
• Frequently Asked Questions chapter helps practitioners prepare for patient visits and provide better patient care.
• Drugs appendix lists available drugs, with contraindications and side effects.
• Useful addresses and websites appendix provide additional resources for both the physician and patient

Genre: Health & Fitness / Healthy Living & Personal Hygiene (fancy, right?)