Fostering Behaviour Change in Obese Adolescents
Learning Aims[edit | edit source]
- Gain sufficient knowledge and skills to support adolescents and their families in changing behaviours to increase physical activity to initiate and maintain weight loss.
- To develop a set of competencies and skills and apply a variety of psychological techniques to foster patient centred behavioural change in adolescents
- Demonstrate understanding and empathy of adolescents attitudes towards obesity, to build a rapport and raise the issue of weight loss sensitively
- To ensure that the adolescent has sufficient information to allow them make an informed decision about the need to increase physical activity through a change in behaviour and awareness of the support options available
- Be able to clarify your role as a physiotherapist and recognise the boundaries of your scope of practice in an at risk adolescent population
Introduction[edit | edit source]
Background[edit | edit source]
What is Behaviour Change?[edit | edit source]
Why is it important?[edit | edit source]
Models of Change[edit | edit source]
Trans-theoretical Model[edit | edit source]
Attitudes and Perceptions[edit | edit source]
Interventions[edit | edit source]
