Changing eating and exercise behaviour

Helping clients to adopt and maintain a healthy lifestlye involves not only the ability to give accurate and up to date advice but also teh skills to motivate cleints to act upon such advice. Information alone is often ineffective and approaches that consider the individual's motivation and readiness to change are necessary if interventions are to be succesful.

Changing Eating and Exercise Behaviour offers health and fitness professionals clear and comprehensive advice on how to help clients achieve results. It details teh core qualities and skills needed by the professional, provides guidance on interviewing styles, assesses the methods of change which can be employed and proposes a model for effective intervention.