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The Family Journal, Vol. 14, No. 4, 412-416 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1066480706290972

Family-Oriented Compliance Counseling: A Therapeutic Strategy for Enhancing Health Status and Lifestyle Change

Len Sperry

Florida Atlantic University

Compliance is a major challenge for all health care providers, including counselors and therapists. Family-oriented compliance counseling is a process for involving the family to increase compliance and thereby enhance health status and lifestyle change efforts. A straightforward and effective therapeutic strategy for increasing compliance in a family counseling context is described and illustrated.

Key Words: treatment compliance • family dynamics • family-oriented compliance counseling • lifestyle change

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  • Sperry, L. (2005). A therapeutic interviewing strategy for effective counseling practice: Application to health and medical issues in individual and couples therapy. The Family Journal, 13, 477-481.[Abstract]

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