Promoting physical activity, healthy eating, and other healthful lifestyle behaviors is not always the easiest thing to sell to our clients. No doubt, we are passionate professionals who truly believe in what we are preaching but at times that passion can lead to an authoritarian approach to the advice that we deliver. Rather than selling, preaching, or dictating the change that must take place, we can empower and engage our clients to set their own agenda for change and in doing so, allow them to work through their ambivalence to change and explore their own strategies for overcoming barriers. To learn how to roll with resistance and elicit change talk read this month's FITT column.

Read the entire column at: http://www.ncpad.org/502/2392/Motivational~Interviewing~~A~Client-Centered~Approach~to~Health~Promotion.