Motivational Interviewing in Health Care


Book Description

Much of health care today involves helping patients manage conditions whose outcomes can be greatly influenced by lifestyle or behavior 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) and show how to incorporate this brief evidence-based approach into any health care setting. Appendices include MI training resources and publications on specific medical conditions. This book is in the Applications of Motivational Interviewing series, edited by Stephen Rollnick, William R. Miller, and Theresa B. Moyers.




Motivational Interviewing in Nutrition and Fitness


Book Description

Making and maintaining lasting changes in nutrition and fitness is not easy for anyone. Yet the communication style of a health professional can make a huge difference. This book presents the proven counseling approach known as motivational interviewing (MI) and shows exactly how to use it in day-to-day interactions with clients. MI offers simple yet powerful tools for helping clients work through ambivalence, break free of diets and quick-fix solutions, and overcome barriers to change. Extensive sample dialogues illustrate specific ways to enhance conversations about meal planning and preparation, exercise, body image, disordered eating, and more. Reproducible forms and handouts can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size.




Coaching Athletes to Be Their Best


Book Description

Part 1. Motivational interviewing -- Part 2. Toolbox -- Part 3. Around the field -- Part 4. MI playbook.




Three Pillars of Health Coaching


Book Description

This special report is based on presentations from three Healthcare Intelligence Network (HIN) webinars hosted by Melanie Matthews, HIN executive vice president and chief operating officer. The report provides the fundamentals of three essential tools that health coaches can use to elicit behavior change. -- cf. http://www.hin.com.




Motivational Interviewing in Life and Health Coaching


Book Description

Written by and for coaches, this groundbreaking book shows how motivational interviewing (MI) can be infused into health and wellness coaching and life coaching to help clients clarify and achieve their goals. Cecilia H. Lanier, Patty Bean, and Stacey C. Arnold concisely explain how the MI spirit, method, and skills mesh perfectly with professional coaching standards and core competencies. The book is packed with concrete examples, sample dialogues that illustrate ways to use MI in coaching conversations, and learning questions and activities. The companion website features 20 downloadable handouts plus an overview of research support for coaching with MI.




Wellness Coaching for Lasting Lifestyle Change


Book Description

Arloski blends the wisdom of the wellness field with the proven processes of the coaching profession to create an easy-to-use training tool. The result is the perfect training tool for wellness professionals of all kinds: disease management professionals, professional coaches, EAP professionals, counselors, and therapists.




Motivational Interviewing, Second Edition


Book Description

This bestselling work has introduced hundreds of thousands of professionals and students to motivational interviewing (MI), a proven approach to helping people overcome ambivalence that gets in the way of change. William R. Miller and Stephen Rollnick explain current thinking on the process of behavior change, present the principles of MI, and provide detailed guidelines for putting it into practice. Case examples illustrate key points and demonstrate the benefits of MI in addictions treatment and other clinical contexts. The authors also discuss the process of learning MI. The volume’s final section brings together an array of leading MI practitioners to present their work in diverse settings.




Coaching Researched


Book Description

A comprehensive review of the practice and most recent research on coaching Coaching Researched: Using Coaching Psychology to Inform Your Research and Practice brings together in one authoritative volume a collection to the most noteworthy papers from the past 15 years from the journal International Coaching Psychology Review. Firmly grounded in evidence-based practice, the writings are appropriate for the burgeoning number of coaching researchers and practitioners in business, health, and education. The contributors offer a scientific framework to support coaching’s pedagogy and they cover the sub-specialties of the practice including executive, health, and life coaching. The book provides a comparative analysis in order to differentiate coaching from other practices. Comprehensive in scope, the book covers a wide-range of topics including: the nature of coaching, coaching theory, insights from recent research, a review of various coaching methods, and thoughts on the future of coaching. This important book: Offers a collection of the most relevant research in the last 15 years with commentary from the International Coaching Psychology Review journal’s chief editor Contains information on both the theory and practice of the profession Includes content on topics such as clients and coaching, an integrated model of coaching, evidence-based life coaching, and much more Presents insights on the future of coaching research Written for students, researchers, practitioners of coaching in all areas of practice, Coaching Researched offers an accessible volume to the most current evidenced-based practice and research.




5-Minute MI


Book Description

If you're a healthcare provider or health coach, you CAN use motivational interviewing effectively, even when you have less than 10 minutes with a client. Have you fallen into the trap of trying to 'cover it all' with your client in a short amount of time, only to have it backfire as they stare blankly at you? The techniques and tips outlined in this book will give you the tools you need to most effectively use whatever time you have.This book is the most practical and usable MI reference you'll ever find. We've included many of the settings dietitians, nurses, diabetes educators and health coaches are likely to encounter. We've attempted to cover a wide range of disease states and lifecycle conditions, as well as a variety of client personalities.For each, we've included loads of counseling vignettes, with dialogue you may frequently hear from clients, as well as suggestions on how you might respond. For each vignette, we've included the total time, so you can see just how effective 5-7 minutes can be! Note: When you purchase this book, you also get access to 5 1-hour webinars, each focused on a specific challenge area for short-stint MI. You'll also hear actual dialogue between a client and professional, to give you more ideas about troubleshooting your use of MI in a short timeframe.Ready to set aside your "fixing" reflex and put your client in the driver's seat? Let's get started.