Psychotherapy for health and lifestyle change

✍ Scribed by Robert E. Feinstein; Marilyn Sommer Feinstein

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 72 KB
• Volume: 57
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9762
• DOI: 10.1002/jclp.1095

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Health practitioners use various models for facilitating health or lifestyle change, which entails either stopping an unhealthy behavior or promoting a new healthy behavior. Four models offer evidence‐based, systematic, and integrative approaches to lifestyle change. They are: the Transtheoretical Model or Stages of Change; Brief Motivational Interviewing; Prevention Oriented Primary Care; and the ECBIS Psychotherapy Model (Emotion, Cognition, Behavioral, Interpersonal, and System). This article reviews each model and features a case illustration to demonstrate how these models can be integrated and applied clinically to help a patient change multiple health behaviors. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Clin Psychol/In Session 57: 1263–1275, 2001.