Motivational Interviewing Workshop
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One of the biggest challenges that primary care practitioners face is helping people change longstanding behaviours that pose significant health risks. Motivational interviewing is a counselling method that involves enhancing a patient’s motivation.
Learn to:
1 - Recognise the essential features of the motivational interviewing communication style and how it differs from other approaches
2 - Become skilled at engaging reluctant members and forming a powerful and productive alliance from the start
3 - Practice responding to challenging and provocative statements in ways that reduce defensiveness and move interactions forward
4 - Understand the reasons why what your members say matters more than what you say
5 - Recognise, evoke, and reinforce members’ own reasons for changing risky, problematic, and self-defeating behaviours
6 - Acquire knowledge of additional MI resources to promote skill development for working with challenging cases
Learn to:
1 - Recognise the essential features of the motivational interviewing communication style and how it differs from other approaches
2 - Become skilled at engaging reluctant members and forming a powerful and productive alliance from the start
3 - Practice responding to challenging and provocative statements in ways that reduce defensiveness and move interactions forward
4 - Understand the reasons why what your members say matters more than what you say
5 - Recognise, evoke, and reinforce members’ own reasons for changing risky, problematic, and self-defeating behaviours
6 - Acquire knowledge of additional MI resources to promote skill development for working with challenging cases