Low-Cost Approaches to Promote Physical and Mental Health: Theory, Research, and Practice

The targeted strategies described in this book can maximize the resources of physical and mental health professionals as well as those of their patients. Coverage offers either self-administered or easily administered verbal and non-verbal interventions designed to promote positive health behaviors while requiring little or no outside funding. It identifies major changes in today's health care systems and explains how targeted, prescriptive promotion/prevention strategies can enhance traditional primary, secondary, and tertiary interventions in key behavioral and relational areas. Reviews of each promotional approach are engaging, effective, and consistent with standard psychological practice for lasting results, either away from or in addition to non-clinical and clinical settings, such as schools, hospitals, and senior citizen centers.