Facilitating Treatment Adherence - A Practitioner's Guidebook

This book provides practical clinical guidelines and describes adherence enhancement techniques for health care professionals dealing with noncompliant patients.

List of contents

Prologue.- 1 The Nature of Adherence.- 1 Treatment Adherence: Terminology, Incidence, and Conceptualization.- 2 Factors Affecting Adherence.- II Adherence Enhancement Procedures.- 3 Enhancing the Relationship between the Patient and the Health Care Provider.- 4 Patient Education: Organizing and Structuring.- 5 Behavior Modification Approaches.- 6 Teaching Self-Regulatory Skills.- 7 Additional Interventions.- III Integration of Adherence Procedures and Impediments to Their Use.- 8 The Integrated Application of Adherence Enhancement Interventions.- 9 Why Health Care Providers Will Not Adhere to the Recommendations Outlined in This Volume (or Perhaps They Will).- Epilogue.- References.- Author Index.

Product details

• Authors: Donal Meichenbaum, Donald Meichenbaum, D C Turk, D. C. Turk, D.C. Turk, Dennis C. Turk
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.10.2013
• EAN: 9781468453614
• ISBN: 978-1-4684-5361-4
• No. of pages: 310
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 230 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 440 g
• Illustrations: 310 p.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology