1. Download Free Chapters
- Motivational Practice-Introduction Click
here
- Motivate Healthy Habits-Introduction Click
here
- Challenge of Implementing Comprehensive
Behavior
Change Programs
- Exploring How World Views Affect Our
Approaches to Behavior Change Click
here
- Exploring Different Kinds of Evidence
Click
here
2. Begin the process of exploring deep change
Using a decision balance (Click
here) to clarify your issues about behavior
change. Learn how your thoughts, feelings, perceptions
and values affect your prospects of change.
Pick an unhealthy behavior. Respond to each
question in four quadrants of the decision balance.
Listen
here to an example of this process
Rate Your Resistance and Motivation
to Change
Use a 0-10 scale (0=not important and 10=very
important) to rate your overall reasons to stay
the same (left-hand column) and to change (right-hand
column). Does your score for the reasons to
stay the same represent how you
A) Think
B) Feel
C) Think and Feel?
This process can help you give
a score for your resistance to change based
on how you think and feel. Now repeat the same
process for your reasons to change.
3. Motivate "Resistant" Smokers
- Helping Practitioners Develop Individualized
Interventions
Watch a video of a practitioner
helping a patient move from not thinking about
quitting to thinking about it, in three steps:
Task 1: Clarify
Issues about Change
Task 2: Lower
Patient Resistance
Task 3: Enhance
Patient Motivation
A method-focused demonstration
will show how patients can assess their perceptions
about change, after each task. This process
can help you develop new skills, but it does
not demonstrate how to be truly patient-centered.
With practice, you can expand your range and
depth of skills to develop the art of dialogue,
so that patients become engaged in the change
process over time. To begin viewing or listening,
please select from the options listed:
To begin viewing or listening,
please select from the options listed:
Task
1 in Windows Media format
Task
1 in RealPlayer format
Task
1 Windows Media "audio-only" format
4. Sample the MHH online program
Enroll
here and experience the learning process!
5. Additional Resources
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