Motivational Interviewing in Diabetes & Chronic Conditions: An Evidence-Based Approach to Patient Behavior Change. Live demonstrations with Stephen Rollnick, PhD – Stephen Rollnick

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Motivational Interviewing in Diabetes & Chronic Conditions: An Evidence-Based Approach to Patient Behavior Change. Live demonstrations with Stephen Rollnick, PhD – Stephen Rollnick

Have you found yourself frustrated by your patient’s lack of adherance, and wonder how you are going to get through to them? Do you feel like a broken record when you talk to your patients about their self-distructive habits?

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is more than just a buzzword.  It is an evidenced-based approach that will take the lecturing and negotiating out of the conversation with your patients, and provide you with effective strategies that will increase the behavior change your clients need. It’s a proven technique that can improve patient outcomes and quality in an organization, increase success and reduce re-admission.

Stephen Rollnick, PhD, is the world’s foremost expert and co-founder of motivational interviewing  (MI), a method for helping people to change their behavior.   He has worked for 25+ years on MI for modifiable risk factors in healthcare, as a practitioner, trainer and author of books on this subject..

Dr. Rollnick has designed this recording specifically for the challenges that healthcare providors face. Learn an easier approach that will take the frustration out of your conversations regarding diabetes control, medication adherence, clinic attendance, diet adherence, physical activity, and associated patient behaviors.

Self-management is a necessity in diabetes (Types I & II) and other chronic diseases.   You can give information, urge patient to change, even beg them to, but only they can make the changes. The Motivational Interviewing techniques presented in this recording will help both you and your patients move past just talking about change, into a state of real behavior change and adherance.

• Describe what typically happens in consultations about lifestyle change and medication use.
• Explain why and how motivational interviewing can fit into everyday practice.
• Develop several of the skills involved and the changes you can make in practice.

Live demonstration, debrief and discussion will be used to address these questions:

Why Motivational Interviewing (MI)?

• Why is this approach to behavior change useful in teaching -difficult patients on lifestyle change?
• What usually happens in brief consultations about lifestyle change and medication use?   The -Righting Reflex and other challenges.
• Helping patients to harness their own motivation for change.
• The evidence base for MI

What does it look like in a healthcare practice?

• Getting alongside patients as they make decisions: the -spirit of MI.
• Rapid engagement & a 20% rule.
• A new framework for practice: engage, focus, evoke and plan.
• Addressing obesity, smoking cessation, alcohol/drug abuse, exercise and uncontrolled diabetes.

Getting yourself into gear

• Slowing your pace down
• Adjusting your attitude and style
• The skills involved