Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Motivational Interviewing Used By Doctors To Change Behaviors, Treat Chronic Conditions

To Motivate Patients To Change, Doctors Stop Scolding.  The Wall Street Journal.  April 29, 2013.

Changing behavior is the key to managing many chronic management diseases.  Scolding does not motivate.  So health-care providers are borrowing the technique of motivational interviewing from weight-loss counseling, smoking cessation, and addiction counseling to confront such conditions as diabetes.

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