This online course has been designed to assist ‘time poor’ health care practitioners work with behavioral challenges in everyday practice, and provide a more enjoyable and effective clinical experience. Burnout is a real concern for many practitioners and health care systems. Learn how the practice of Motivational Interviewing can help.
Motivational Interviewing provides a collaborative framework that offers real opportunities to lift atmosphere, reduce staff burnout, improve practice culture and improve the well-being of practitioners and patients. Learn how to make brief consultations efficient and impactful, and help patients find their own motivation to change.
You will also acquire an additional toolbox of skills to assist you with difficult consultations that include patients who present as apathetic, upset, frustrated or negative. Learning just one or two MI Skills at a time can make a real difference to your consultations.
Your learning experience has been purposefully created to be highly practical. It includes short, simple and easy to absorb lessons, clinical demonstrations, optional ‘deeper dive bonus content’ of key concepts and skills, and an online digital library with additional resources you can access at any time. Your course has been designed to allow you to jump ahead or back so that you can zero in on strategies or skills specifically of interest to you as you learn.
Course Goals
Make brief consultations efficient and impactful
Learn how applying just a few MI Skills can improve behavioral outcomes
Learn an effective alternative to trying to persuade patients to change
Clarify what simple open questions can make all the difference in promoting change
Acquire an additional toolbox of skills when consulting with angry, upset, apathetic and disengaged patients
Move past and avoid repeating the same tired messages that wear you down
Learn how to rapidly and efficiently engage with patients
