title: Psychotherapy for health and lifestyle change.
abstract: Health practitioners use various models for facilitating health or lifestyle change, which entails either stopping an unhealthy behavior or promoting a new healthy behavior. Four models offer evidence-based, systematic, and integrative approaches to lifestyle change. They are: the Transtheoretical Model or Stages of Change; Brief Motivational Interviewing; Prevention Oriented Primary Care; and the ECBIS Psychotherapy Model (Emotion, Cognition, Behavioral, Interpersonal, and System). This article reviews each model and features a case illustration to demonstrate how these models can be integrated and applied clinically to help a patient change multiple health behaviors.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Psychiatry, New York Medical College, Stamford, CT 06902, USA.
authors.forename: R E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Feinstein
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Feinstein
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000523:psychology*; D001521:Behavior Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D008960:Models, Psychological; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000523:psychology*; D016896:Treatment Outcome