A Clean Perspective

A young couple moves into a new neighborhood. The next morning, while they are eating breakfast, the young woman, Steph sees her neighbor hang her wash outside.That laundry is not very clean, said Steph, she doesn’t know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs...

Asking permission

As health care practitioners, we have a veritable repository of information about positive health behaviours. We are experts in our respective fields of health care, from oral health care to nutrition management to occupational therapy etc. Sheer logic would tell us...

Client Strengths

In the English language, what is the longest word that contains only one vowel? The answer is   s-t-r-e-n-g-t-h. We often think of strength as a physical attribute, one associated with muscle, power, and physique. In the context of client/patient work in the health...

Readiness to Change

Change, according to one quaint saying, is inevitable…except from a vending machine. The truth is that for most of our clients, change is very hard and most certainly not automatically inevitable. In the Motivational Interviewing literature, Miller and Rollnick often...