Applied Exercise Psychology: A Practitioner's Guide to Improving Client Health and Fitness

Author: Mark H. AnshellPublisher: Springer Publishing CompanyPaperback:ISBN 10: 0826132146ISBN 13: 978-0826132147This is the first applied handbook for practitioners who want to help patients begin and maintain an exercise program as a lifestyle change. Mental health practitioners (M.H.P.s) often earn a trust that not many other professionals do with their patients. It is with this trust that M.H.P.s are able to encourage and help their clients begin a healthy and active lifestyle through exercise programs. This book, with easy to understand language, provides a simple introduction for mental health practitioners and clinicians to help their clients achieve better mental and physical health through exercise and learn how effective the psychological aspects of exercise can be. The book helps M.H.P.s obtain the background of ways to achieve proper fitness, and to go through the process of obtaining information about the client's individual needs, and finally to prescribe an exercise prog