ADVANCED AU-MITI WORKSHOP INFORMATION
Motivational interviewing is a proven, patient centered counseling method for addressing patient ambivalence and resistance to change. Motivational interviewing has been shown to improve treatment adherence and outcomes, promote health behavior change, improve patient satisfaction with care and increase retention rates in complex case management.
Collaborate with other health professionals in this specialized motivational interviewing workshop designed specifically for health care professionals.
This advanced motivational interviewing program will generally focus on enhancing a deeper understanding and proficiency in the following areas:
- Establishing the patient's susceptibility/risk if the illness is not treated (e.g. high blood pressure) or the behavior is not changed (e.g. smoking cessation).
- Issue versus relational resistance
- Creating vulnerability and responding with appropriate empathy.
- Helping patients identify and set meaningful (treatment) goals.
- Creating dissonance:
- Patient makes the argument for the change
- Assisting patient in setting realistic goals
Specifically, through these areas we will explore how to help patients to reason their way through issue resistance, without creating relational resistance, framing the critical issues for patients, spotting untested assumptions, correcting incorrect or inaccurate information without face loss for the patient, and inviting conclusions on the part of the patient, versus imposing conclusions.
Through a series of vignettes and role playing exercises, participants will increase their understanding and skill level in motivational interviewing.
If you are a case manager, health care provider, or an educator who is seeking to deepen their understanding and skill level in motivational interviewing and you have attended the basic AU MITI workshop,
this advanced workshop is for you.
AU MITI workshops are developed by Drs. Bruce Berger, Bill Villaume and Jan Kavookjian as an educational model for learning and applying motivational interviewing skills, assisting patients with lifestyle changes, and indentifying specific intervention tools. |
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