"Please cut back on salt.""Let's try to walk a little bit every day.""Please make sure to take your medicine properly."If you ...

Over the course of four sessions, my patient, Stacey, and I worked toward her goals of sleeping more, checking her email less and spending more quality time with her family. She successfully developed ...

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These simple strategies based on self-determination theory can help you maximize your patients’ motivation to change. Facilitating patient behavior change is a constant challenge for primary care ...

“In various implementations, a method includes identifying an experimental population for purposes of testing a behavior change model; applying the behavior change model to the experimental population ...

I've spent the last 10 years studying how people make health decisions, in research and in thousands of hours of coaching calls. Here's the pattern I keep seeing: When someone misses a goal they ...