Facilitating Treatment Adherence: A Practitioner’s Guidebook

Prologue.- 1 The Nature of Adherence.- 1 Treatment Adherence: Terminology, Incidence, and Conceptualization.- 2 Factors Affecting Adherence.- II Adherence Enhancement Procedures.- 3 Enhancing the Relationship between the Patient and the Health Care Provider.- 4 Patient Education: Organizing and Structuring.- 5 Behavior Modification Approaches.- 6 Teaching Self-Regulatory Skills.- 7 Additional Interventions.- III Integration of Adherence Procedures and Impediments to Their Use.- 8 The Integrated Application of Adherence Enhancement Interventions.- 9 Why Health Care Providers Will Not Adhere to the Recommendations Outlined in This Volume (or Perhaps They Will).- Epilogue.- References.- Author Index.