Author: Michelle A Dart

Motivational Interviewing in Nursing Practice: Empowering the Patient is a guide to learning Motivational Interviewing, a set of skills that utilises therapeutic communication to promote behavior change. This text provides unique tools for nurses to implement and help patients take responsibility in their own health care, make informed decisions and provide guidance toward healthy behaviour change, leading to improved health of our communities and country.

Table of Contents 

Chapter 1  Basics of Motivational Interviewing
Chapter 2  Making the Pieces Fit: Therapeutic Communication and the Nursing Process
Chapter 3  Motivational Interviewing as Evidence Based Practice
Chapter 4  Challenges in Motivational Interviewing
Chapter 5  Developmental Considerations
Chapter 6  Motivational Interviewing in Cardiac Health
Chapter 7  Motivational Interviewing in Endocrine Disease
Chapter 8  Motivational Interviewing in Digestive Health
Chapter 9  Motivational Interviewing in Genitourinary Health
Chapter 10  Motivational Interviewing in Neurological Disorders
Chapter 11  Motivational Interviewing in Musculoskeletal Disorders
Chapter 12  Motivational Interviewing in Mental Health Disorders
Chapter 13  Motivational Interviewing in Pulmonary Disorders
Chapter 14  Motivational Interviewing and Preventive Care
Chapter 15  The Future of Motivational Interviewing

©2011, 296 pages.