Behavioural change
LighterLife uses a highly effective
combination of techniques to help your patients understand the
reasons behind their past eating habits, so they can change their
relationship with food in the future and develop new, healthier lifestyle habits.
These techniques are facilitated in small,
single-sex groups with a maximum of 12 patients, led by a
LighterLife weight-management
counsellor.
The group work uses structured activities,
based around techniques developed specifically for the treatment of
obesity and overweight.
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
techniques
The thing that upsets people is not what
happens but what they think it means.
CBT is a practical, effective and well
recognised way of encouraging the development of rational,
realistic thinking, which can lead to healthier ways of behaving
around food and lifestyle. CBT techniques are well suited to group
work and are used widely within the NHS.
Transactional analysis (TA) techniques
At any given time, a person experiences
and manifests their personality through a mixtures of behaviours,
thoughts and feelings.
Transactional analysis techniques explain how
listening to messages and rules from the past can influence current
behaviour, including choices around food and lifestyle. TA is a
simple, highly effective way of understanding and improving
communication with the self and others.
Change models
LighterLife primarily uses Prochaska and
diClemente’s cycle of change model: the generic model for many
addiction therapies, including smoking cessation.
LighterLife recognises the importance of
maintaining change, with group work focusing on building patients’
skills to maintain long-term change.
Download a copy of our group work booklet
here.