1st Edition
Persuasion in Clinical Practice Helping People Make Changes
By Lewis Walker
Copyright 2010
174 Pages
by
CRC Press
174 Pages
by
CRC Press
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By the end of this book you are going to be part of an exclusive group. The skill-sets you are about to learn will help you become one of a select few who can, time and time again, help people make changes in any clinical encounter.A" Persuading and influencing are most effective as cooperative ventures that recognise the needs and wishes a person already has, but feels unable or disempowered to... Read more
Foundations of Persuasion in Clinical Practice. Styles of change. Problems and solutions. Assessing importance, confidence and readiness for change. Present and curious. Avoiding roadblocks. Interlude 1: Kick but without trying. Raising awareness. Interlude 2: Changing frames. Resolving ambivalence. Interlude 3: Persuasive phrases. Preparing to make changes. Interlude 4: Emotional messages. Taking action. Interlude 5: You, me and them. Staying on track.
Biography
Lewis Walker
