Every Contact Counts covers Brief Opportunistic Advice (BOA). BOA actively raises awareness of healthy lifestyle issues during an employee’s day-to-day contact with a person. Providing BOA can take between 30 seconds and five minutes and might lead on to other interventions. BOA is not just for psychologists, professional counsellors, nurses or clinicians. Anyone dealing with the public - police officers, probation officers, housing workers, f

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