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Brief Health Counselling

Brief Health Counselling (BHC) is a research-based approach to talking with clients about lifestyle behaviours.

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BHC uses short discussions (3 - 5 minutes) focusing on behavior change. The goal is to tailor an intervention to a client’s current stage of readiness for change.

BHC can address:

Brief Health Counselling Tools

Depending on the topic area or field (tobacco use, alcohol, etc.) Brief Health Counselling has several different names/acronyms:

SBIR (Alcohol): Screening, Brief Intervention & Referral (pending)

BI/MCI: (Tobacco): Brief Intervention / Minimal Contact Intervention (RNAO)
                                  Brief Counselling (PTCC)
                                  Brief Advise (YCMIH)
                                  Canadian Smoking cessation Clinical Practice Guideline -                                  Overview of Summary Statements and Complete

All of these apply to the same framework or technique of short, customized interviews or interventions.

Be advised that changing lifestyle behaviour can be difficult or lengthy and often does not happen as a result of a single intervention. BHC relies on consistent and individualized feedback to clients from a variety of sources.

You can be a vital part of this process

Be aware that BHC is not for everyone.

If the client is consuming alcohol above the low-risk drinking guidelines and is alcohol dependent, please refer your client to more specialized community support services.

	A framework for understanding the phases of readiness
	The guiding principles that will help your clients
	Putting it all together to support client behaviour change
	A list of key resources divided by topic

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