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Guide to Creating Tobacco Interventions

The Health Professional's Guide to Tobacco Addiction Intervention

Students of the Health Professions at Baccalaureate or Master's level, Nurses, Physicians, Dentists, Physician's Assistants, Health Educators, Teachers of Preventive Medicine . . .

Here is the answer to a comprehensive self-study Public-Health and Health Promotion theory-based course on the:

~ History of origin, use, and transport of tobacco

~ Legal/ethical issues concerning manufacture and marketing of tobacco

~ Epidemiological issues related to resultant disease and disability with tobacco use

~ Public health data and response

~ Practical skill-building for intervention

Description of Health Professional's Guide

Standards of cognitive restructuring, behavior modification, teaching/learning strategies, and communications are employed in the content of The Health Professional's Guide to Nicotine Addiction Intervention.
There are principles of:

  • the helping relationship,

  • teaching/learning theories,

  • epidemiology and public health,

  • individual and aggregate health promotion,

  • the professional role,

  • assessment,

  • life cycle influences,

  • risk to vulnerable populations woven throughout

Unique qualities of this course are:

1. A Case Study upon which to build an intervention,
2. A Community Assessment process upon which to build a group/community,
3. Intervention strategies for a tobacco cessation method for the purpose of documenting personal awareness-building,
4. Related public health statistics,
5. And illustrated models for learning.

The student of this course will carry away upon completion:
1. Social action strategies based on current scientific programs that are working,
2. Behavior modification strategies based on current theory,
3. Education or health promotion plans for individuals or groups, and
4. The ability to create specific individual, group, or community interventions for tobacco cessation

Format of the HPGTAI

The length of the text is 200 pages between soft-bound covers; graphic art is used extensively. Each lesson begins with a set of learning objectives and informational text. Following that are the working pages for learning application and step-by-step intervention development. Diagrams and models illustrate theory and concepts, tables provide statistical data, thought-provokers reinforce learning. Quiz questions are posed with an answer key.

Other features are: glossary, bibliography, and appendices. It is spiral bound with high quality paper between leatherette covers . An Instructor's Manual accompanies it.

The opportunities in this text for notekeeping serve as both a journal of concrete information and a resource for planning interventions. At the end of each lesson is a Note Page on which the student may record journal notations and accumulate plans for the final projects of this course: planning a cessation program for a Case Study and one for a Community. Activities on these pages are given to clarify concepts. Supplemental quizzes are also added to the end of most lessons with answers supplied. Mentoring and grading of projects should be done by Instructor--guidelines are provided. There are 12 lessons to the text-adaptable to a quarter or semester curriculum.

Cost: Downloadable files - $20 -- Hardcopy of course - $60.

Sample chapter (PDF)

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