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• Lifestyle modification = We all want our patients to be healthy.
• Invasion of the private life of the patient !
• advising them how to live, • what and when to eat
• how to spend their day
• People do not necessarily put improved health as the most important goal in their life.
• Result : Resistance to change
• So the key issue : MOTIVATION !
Motivational Interviewing
• Although originally constructed in the treatment of alcohol addiction, the model was used in the treatment of an increasing variety of other medical and psychological problems.
• To date it remains one of the best models to help people get motivated and decide to start to change their habits.
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