Welcome

Welcome to the TADS training website. This is a first stop for health professionals across New Zealand, Australia and beyond who want to access a key proven method to better reach their patients through earlier intervention strategies that assist people to make healthy behavioural choices.


What is TADS?

TADS (Training and Development Services) is a New Zealand-born national education and training programme established from the Goodfellow Unit, Dept of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Auckland in 1995.

Many health professionals have the desire and commitment to assist their patients in lifestyle behaviour change but lack the skills.


It is a unique, well researched training programme based on an holistic person-focused approach and supporting primary health care principles of self determination and prevention.

The purpose of the training is to prevent and intervene early in assisting people to make healthy lifestyle choices, thus preventing escalation of harmful behaviours, early hospitalisation and premature death.

The TADS training aims to assist health professionals and others working at first point of contact to facilitate people to identify potential, emerging or existing personal behavioural practices.

Specific TADS developed and validated communication resources and intervention approaches are utilised incorporating the many years of TADS research. Such resources include the TADS PACT^© (Personal Assessment Choice Tool) and the TADS Brief Opportunistic Intervention (BOI) approach.