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...

Chunking Down Health Issues with your Clients

We are multi-taskers; we spend our days trying to do so many things at the same time, all in the name of efficiency and accomplishment, or so we think. Most often, our multi-focus results in strong feelings of getting nowhere fast or being too busy, swamped, and just...