Changing Behaviour
NHS Health Trainer Handbook
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Improving Health: Changing Behaviour, NHS Health
Trainer Handbook
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British Psychological Society Health Psychology Team:
Susan Michie, Nichola Rumsey, Anna Fussell, Wendy Hardeman,
Marie Johnston, Stanton Newman, Lucy Yardley
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Health Trainers and Health Trainer service providers
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Description
Handbook to support Health Trainers in facilitating behaviour change Cross Ref
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Contact Details
Rachel Carse
Health Trainer Programme healthtrainers@dh.gsi.gov.uk For Recipient’s Use
Improving Health:
Changing Behaviour
NHS Health Trainer Handbook
Written by the British Psychology Society Division of Health Psychology team:
Susan Michie, Nichola Rumsey,
Anna Fussell, Wendy Hardeman,
Marie Johnston, Stanton Newman and Lucy Yardley
Contents
Sections
Page
Introduction and the role of a Health Trainer
3
How to use this handbook
5
Sample meeting structure
5
Meeting scripts
9
How to assess clients
11
Finding out about your client
12
Encouraging people to change behaviour
14
Health Trainer competences checklist
15
Thinking about changing behaviour
16
Choosing a behaviour to change
16
Health Benefit Cards
17
Health Behaviour Check
19
Deciding to change
24
Balance Sheets (client worksheets)
25
Increasing confidence to change
28
Planning the behaviour change
30
Goal setting
30
SMART goals
31
SMART goals (client worksheet)
32
ABC forms
33
ABC example and blank
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