New Science Behind Helping Your Clients Achieve and Sustain their Self-Care and Lifestyle Goals

In this course, Dr. Michelle Segar (PhD, MPH, MS, Director of the Sustainable Health Activities Research Program Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan) explains her proposition that, for most people to achieve sustainable change, a mindset change is needed from all-or-nothing thinking to a more flexible approach which views disruptions as inevitable, given the dynamic reality of everyday life. Dr. Segar cites research and anecdotal evidence to support the notion that all-or-nothing thinking is a cognitive distortion which is more adaptably replaced by choice points: “perfect imperfect” options which allow clients attempting change to do something instead of nothing and thereby put themselves on a more successful trajectory toward sustainable change. Choice points, she says, are “the joy choice”.