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Survival and Thrival: MI Tactics for Health Issues
This blog is a bit unusual in that we want to use an example from a series of presentations called, “Cancer Care Talks: Strategies to Empower Your Wellness.” The talk is entitled, Survivorship: How do You Want it to Be? and the reason we want to highlight it is because it demonstrates vividly how patients… Read more
Cementing Commitment to Change
Business models contain compelling indicators for building personal commitment to change and the applicability of these models to health behaviour change is very appropriate. Click here, for example, to see one graphic representation of a business model depicting the process of committing to change.
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 better laundry soap.
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.
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 professions, client strengths are critically important character traits.