Review of My Healthy Habits Journal

This slim volume is filled with written activities designed to get you pondering, questioning, and ultimately changing, your health habits. If you like lots of direction and exhortation in a self-help guide it may not provide enough structure for you, but if you are comfortable picking and choosing among a wealth of thought-provoking exercises you will find ample grist for the motivational mill.

This book can be an especially useful adjunct for health care providers using motivational interviewing or the stages-of-change approach. Botelho has done the work of translating some of the key principles of these models (as well as self-determination theory, solution-focused therapy, self-efficacy theory, and relapse prevention), into patient-friendly terms, ready for use as in-session activities or homework.

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