Much of health care today involves helping patients manage conditions whose outcomes can be greatly influenced by lifestyle or behaviour change. Written specifically for health care professionals, this concise book presents powerful tools to enhance communication with patients and guide them in making choices to improve their health, from weight loss, exercise, and smoking cessation, to medication adherence and safer sex practices. Engaging dialogues and vignettes bring to life the core skills of motivational interviewing (MI) and show how to incorporate this brief evidence-based approach into any health care setting. Appendices include MI training resources and publications on specific medical conditions.
In an era filled with change, grief and trauma a revolutionary new approach for children emerges. "What's Dead Mean?" is a true activity book specially written to help children cope with death. This resource combines drawing and pasting with facilitated talking to help parents, teachers, child care workers, or indeed anyone faced with the challenge of communicating this vital, and often neglected, message to the young. The resource evolved from a mothers own experience of managing how to tell her own child that her sibling had died. Feeling that she... More info
Parents, teachers, counsellors - here is the ideal resource for creating conversations with younger children about sibling jealousy ...and other emotional monsters who come into our lives! Byron is a happy and endearing little chap until his baby brother arrives. When his chair, now too small for him but perfect for Max, is passed on to this little interloper things go seriously downhill. But jealousy is the not the all-powerful force it sometimes seems... More info
Designed as a self-help program The Depressions Solutions Workbook can also be used as tool to work in collaboration with people living with depression. The program is comprised of a three-part approach to help learn and identify strengths, build motivation by encouragement to take action and build skills to improve your thoughts, feelings and relationships. The workbook includes: Case Examples Exercises Scaling Tools A powerful three part program for overcoming depression that includes: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Motivational Interviewing and Solution Focused Therapy More info
