Changing eating and exercise behaviour
Subtitle: A handbook for professionals
By: Paula Hunt and Melvyn Hillsdon.
Contributors: Hillsdon, Melvyn.
Edition: 1
Publisher: Blackwell Science
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; Cambridge, Mass., USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
Subjects: Weight loss -- Psychological aspects.; Exercise -- Psychological aspects.; Health behavior.; Food habits.; Client-centered psychotherapy.; Health counseling.; Nutrition counseling.
Other titles: Changing eating & exercise behaviour
Description: Helping clients to adopt and maintain a healthy lifestlye involves not only the ability to give accurate and up to date advice but also teh skills to motivate cleints to act upon such advice. Information alone is often ineffective and approaches that consider the individual's motivation and readiness to change are necessary if interventions are to be succesful.

Changing Eating and Exercise Behaviour offers health and fitness professionals clear and comprehensive advice on how to help clients achieve results. It details teh core qualities and skills needed by the professional, provides guidance on interviewing styles, assesses the methods of change which can be employed and proposes a model for effective intervention.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-174) and index.