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Using Motivational Interviewing in Primary Care: Quick, Dirty, and Effective Tools

Changing problematic behaviors involves more than simply giving a patient information. It is more a matter of creating a short conversation that quickly finds the patient's reasons for change.

What Health Professionals
When May 21, 2010
08:30 am
Where Hotel Deca, Seattle WA
Contact Name Eddie Edmondson, LICSW - Manager, CHAMMP Training Institute
Contact Email
Contact Phone 206.744.1751
Attendees Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Medical Assistants, Nurses, Social Workers, Pharmacists, and Clinic Administrators
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Numerous randomized trials show that Motivational Interviewing (MI) is one of the most promising ways of getting behavior change in primary care. Some examples of acute and chronic care issues include:

  • medication adherence
  • physical activity
  • diet
  • smoking
  • sexual safety
  • drug and alcohol use

Motivational Interviewing uses a patient-centered approach to help people prepare for change by exploring and resolving their ambivalence about change. MI was developed by Bill Miller (University of New Mexico) and Steve Rollnick (University of Wales); their book; Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People for Change, is now in its second edition.

This training program clarifies what MI is and is not. Participants get practical, brief, and easy-to-use tools that can enhance their treatment of patients. Various MI techniques will be demonstrated, and participants are given multiple opportunities to practice MI skills with fellow participants.

The goals of this comprehensive, 1-day training are to:

  • Learn a conceptual model for enhancing patient motivation and reducing resistance
  • Understand why highly confrontational interventions are not as effective
  • Practice basic MI skills and techniques to elicit "change talk"
  • Know how to respond effectively to resistance

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