Health Behavior Change and Treatment Adherence
Evidence-based Guidelines for Improving Healthcare
Title Details
2nd Ed.
© Oxford University Press 2025
Robin DiMatteo; Leslie Martin; Kelly Haskard-Zolnierek
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-777858-6
eISBN-13: 978-0-19-777860-9
Public Health, Health Education, Social Work
Additional Details
Each year, in more than a billion U.S. medical visits, health professionals offer disease prevention and treatment recommendations, but close to half of these are not followed. This book provides the latest theory-driven and evidence-based recommendations for addressing persistent barriers to treatment adherence within a social-ecological framework.
Written for a wide variety of practitioners, the numerous cases and clinical examples illustrate important practice principles. Each chapter includes tools for instruction and self-study (including learning objectives, a summary, review questions, prompts for discussion and further study, and suggested reading), making it an ideal text for clinical health-science courses. With strong evidence base and a readable style, this book is for practitioners and students in medicine, public health, nursing, health education, health coaching, allied health, dentistry, clinical and health psychology, counseling, and social work. It is also for anyone who wishes to take an active role in their own health or help others to do so.
Overview:
- • Examines many new research developments in medicine, public health, and psychological science
- • Applies theoretical concepts, models, and extensive review of the research literature on health behavior change and adherence to real-world, challenging health problems
- • Includes many cases and clinical examples to illustrate important practice principles
New to this Edition:
- • Includes recent developments in the science of habit formation and maintenance; the role of technology in medicine, psychology, and behavior change; social media; digital health; artificial intelligence in medicine; social determinants of health; socioeconomic and racial disparities in medical care; environmental determinants of health maintenance and disease management; integrated health systems; COVID-19; pandemics; and public health policy
- • Each chapter provides tools for instruction and self-study for use as a text in the health sciences
The book provides informative practice information appealing to a broad audience, including healthcare professionals, both in training and in practice. This includes, but is not limited to, professionals in nursing, medicine, allied health, chiropractic, physical therapy, dentistry, behavioral health fields, healthcare administration, and public health. It offers a practical and detailed approach, including tables, case studies, self-study instructions, and reference sections. The authors are known experts and university professors with many decades of combined experience teaching and lecturing.
Doody's Review
"This book provides a comprehensive guide for treatment adherence and health behavior change with an emphasis on medical practice, public health, and behavioral science research. It addresses a broad audience in an organized and streamlined fashion. It provides tools, research, and support to aid didactics and self-study. The book's information provides a comprehensive insight into the complex and encompassing nature of treatment adherence."
-- Danielle Blea, LCMFT, LCAC (Smoky Hill Family Medicine Residency) Doody's Review
"This would be an excellent textbook for any healthcare educator or academic educator who instructs future healthcare professionals. It not only provides an evidence-based foundation for developing effective curricula and teaching modalities, it also provides insight into the importance of communicating and collaborating with clients for health behavior change to occur."
-- Linda Shanta, PhD, MSN, BS (Walden University) Doody's Review - previous edition
Score: 96/100
Stars: 4
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