How to Motivate Patients to Change their Lifestyle
Motivational interviewing in healthcare helps patients change their behavior. The 21st century health care focus is on prevention and maintenance of lifestyle-related conditions.
Motivational interviewing is a gentle style of counseling/interaction designed to activate the motivation for change and can be applied to the management of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, and addiction. In this course, Anne Bailey, an experienced clinical Acupuncturist, shares how to motivate patients in healthcare through styles of communication, the phenomenon of ambivalence and eliciting change talk, reflective listening, and practitioner challenges to guiding behavior change.
Upon completion of this course, practitioners will:
- Understand how to motivate patients in healthcare through styles of communication
- Recognize the phenomenon of ambivalence and eliciting change talk
- Understand the practitioner challenges to guiding behavior change
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This was a gem of presentation. The video portion stopped transmitting early on in the lecture. The audio continued, thank goodness. Is there any way of correcting the glitch?