Health Behavior Change and Treatment Adherence: Evidence-based Guidelines for Improving Healthcare

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 in...