This book provides a critical approach for helping patients change their behavior motivational interviewing mi provides a new alternative to the outdated direct persuasion approach bringing a breath of fresh air to the conversation between health care providers and those with chronic diseases like diabetes and obesity. Much of health care today involves helping patients manage conditions whose outcomes can be greatly influenced by lifestyle or behavior change written specifically for health care professionals this concise book presents powerful tools to enhance communication with patients and guide them in making choices to improve their health from weight loss exercise and smoking cessation to . Motivational interviewing in health care helping patients change behavior written by stephen rollnick william r miller and christopher c butler. This book provides a critical approach for helping patients change their behavior motivational interviewing mi provides a new alternative to the outdated direct persuasion approach bringing a breath of fresh air to the conversation between health care providers and those with chronic diseases like diabetes and obesity. Series applications of motivational interviewing pdf download once paid 210 pages publisher the guilford press 1 edition november 7 2007 language english isbn 10 1593856121 isbn 13 978 1593856120