Motivational Interviewing in Health Care by Stephen Rollnick

Motivational Interviewing in Health Care by Stephen Rollnick

*Fills a huge, unmet need: applies MI--an effective technique developed in behavioral health care--to medical settings. *From the creators of MI and authors of the bestselling Motivational Interviewing (9781572305632). *Tailor-made for the busy practitioner: concise, affordable, and eminently practical. *Grassroots sales support: an extensive network of MI trainers use and promote MI titles internationally.

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Stephen Rollnick, PhD, is Honorary Distinguished Professor in the School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Wales, United Kingdom. He is a codeveloper of motivational interviewing, with a career in clinical psychology and academia that focused on how to improve conversations about change. He has worked in diverse fields, with special interests in mental health and long-term health conditions like diabetes, heart disease, and HIV/AIDS. Dr. Rollnick has published widely in scientific journals and has written many books on helping people to change behavior. He is coauthor (with William R. Miller) of the classic work Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change, now in its third edition. He has traveled worldwide to train practitioners in many settings and cultures, and now works as a trainer and consultant in healthcare and sports. William R. Miller, PhD, is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of New Mexico, where he joined the faculty in 1976. He served as Director of Clinical Training for UNM's American Psychological Association-approved doctoral program in clinical psychology and as Codirector of UNM’s Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse, and Addictions. Dr. Miller’s publications include 35 books and more than 400 articles and chapters. He introduced the concept of motivational interviewing in a 1983 article. The Institute for Scientific Information names him as one of the world's most cited scientists. Christopher C. Butler, MD, is Professor of Primary Care Medicine and head of the Department of Primary Care and Public Health at Cardiff University, UK. He trained in medicine at the University of Cape Town and in clinical epidemiology at the University of Toronto. For his doctoral work, under the direction of Stephen Rollnick, he developed and evaluated behavior change counseling and conducted qualitative research into patients’ perceptions of advice against smoking from clinicians. Dr. Butler has published more than 70 papers, mainly on health behavior change and common infections. He has a general medical practice in a former coal-mining town in south Wales.

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ISBN 13	9781593856120
ISBN 10	1593856121
Title	Motivational Interviewing in Health Care
Author	Stephen Rollnick
Series	Applications Of Motivational Interviewing
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Guilford Publications
Year published	2008-01-10
Number of pages	210
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