NEW Professional Development Series
The Motivational Interviewing Series offers techniques to residents for enhancing
the patient's motivation for change by exploring and resolving ambivalence.
The learning modules in this series provide an engaging and discovery-based experience,
featuring:
- Interactive audio/visual segments led by Julia Wacker, MSW, MPH, certified in
Motivational Interviewing Supervision and Consultation.
- Role plays by actual residents demonstrating each technique in a clinical setting,
allowing you to evaluate the resident's use of the technique
- Media-rich content that lets you set the pace – helping you build critical thinking
skills, increase your knowledge retention, and achieve a higher level of learning
By enrolling in each of the modules in the Motivational Interviewing Series, you'll
learn how to incorporate the four core techniques of this method, including:
- Expressing Empathy and Establishing Rapport – a crucial first step in trying
to initiate the change process in patients.
- Developing the Discrepancy – helping elicit "change talk," where patients
discuss the disconnect between their current behavior and desired behavior.
- Rolling with Resistance – effectively responding to patient resistance to
help you address these situations and make the patient generate the reasons for
making a change.
- Supporting Self-Efficacy – fostering a patient's belief that they can, in
fact, make changes in their lives.
Once you complete the modules in this series, you'll be able to apply the techniques
of Motivational Interviewing and enhance dialogue with your patients and their families
– helping them realize their motivation for making a behavior change and moving
them forward in the change process.
Click on a Motivational Interviewing Series module on the right to learn more about
the module, the speaker, and to enroll.
