Motivational Interviewing: Listening for Change
Presented by Dawn Clifford
Nonfinancial: Dawn Clifford has no competing nonfinancial interests or relationships with regard to the content presented in this course.
Patients often experience ambivalence about starting a new rehab plan. They want to experience healing but may have challenging life circumstances resulting in numerous barriers to change. By enhancing your listening skills, you can improve the patient–practitioner relationship while also identifying the patient’s readiness to change, and learn how to respond to patients when they are on the fence about change.
Order of Courses:
- Motivational Interviewing: Taming Your Fixing Reflex
- Motivational Interviewing: Listening for Change
- Motivational Interviewing: Mastering Active Listening
- Motivational Interviewing: Building Patient Motivation
- Motivational Interviewing: Planning for Change
- Motivational Interviewing: Supporting Your Patients in the Digital Age
Microlearning Options:
- Cultivating Partnership With Motivational Interviewing
- Research Brief: Motivational Interviewing in the Digital Age
- Patient-Centered Care Through Digital Platforms
- Motivational Interviewing When You're Short on Time: Setting Expectations
- Motivational Interviewing When You're Short on Time: Open-Ended Questions
- Motivational Interviewing When You're Short on Time: Narrowing Focus
- Motivational Interviewing When You're Short on Time: Reflective Listening
- Motivational Interviewing When You're Short on Time: Assessing Patient Understanding
- Motivational Interviewing When You're Short on Time: Building Partnership
Meet your instructor
Dawn Clifford
Dawn Clifford is a professor and graduate coordinator at Northern Arizona University. Dr. Clifford earned her BS in nutrition and dietetics at NAU and completed her dietetic internship at the Greater Los Angeles VA Hospital. After working as an outpatient dietitian for a few years, Dr. Clifford returned to school to complete…
Chapters & learning objectives
1. Listening for Ambivalence
Making a behavior change rarely happens in a linear fashion. It’s more common for patients to contemplate changes at first and then experience starts and stops as they attempt the changes. This chapter covers the different stages individuals go through on a typical behavior change journey, which will help the practitioner assess their patients’ readiness to change and better support their patients on the road ahead.
2. Tune Your Ears for the Language of Change
When you listen deeply, you will discover that much of what your patient shares falls into the categories of reasons in favor of sticking with their rehab or health-improvement plan and reasons against. Being able to enhance your patients’ motivation starts with hearing the words they use to describe their thoughts and feelings about setting up new patterns to support their recovery.
3. Responding to Ambivalence
In this chapter, participants will learn how to be more strategic with their responses when their patients are on the fence about change. While there are many ways to respond to patients who are struggling to find motivation, some responses are more effective than others.
More courses in this series
Motivational Interviewing: Taming Your Fixing Reflex
Dawn Clifford
Motivational Interviewing: Listening for Change
Dawn Clifford
Motivational Interviewing: Mastering Active Listening
Dawn Clifford
Motivational Interviewing: Building Patient Motivation
Dawn Clifford
Motivational Interviewing: Planning for Change
Dawn Clifford
Motivational Interviewing: Supporting Your Patients in the Digital Age
Dawn Clifford
Cultivating Partnership With Motivational Interviewing
Dawn Clifford
Research Brief: Motivational Interviewing in the Digital Age
Dawn Clifford
Patient-Centered Care Through Digital Platforms
Dawn Clifford
Motivational Interviewing When You're Short on Time: Setting Expectations
Dawn Clifford
Motivational Interviewing When You're Short on Time: Open-Ended Questions
Dawn Clifford
Motivational Interviewing When You're Short on Time: Narrowing Focus
Dawn Clifford
Motivational Interviewing When You're Short on Time: Reflective Listening
Dawn Clifford
Motivational Interviewing When You're Short on Time: Assessing Patient Understanding
Dawn Clifford
Motivational Interviewing When You're Short on Time: Building Partnership
Dawn Clifford
Frequently asked questions
Everything you need to know about Medbridge courses.
Who creates Medbridge courses?
We work with industry-leaders, top researchers, and consultants to build content roadmaps that are then structured into courses, filmed, and edited by our production team before being launched to our site.
How often does Medbridge release new courses?
New courses are added monthly and are automatically included in your subscription as they launch.
How often does Medbridge update courses?
Medbridge reviews its courses annually for relevance and to assess if content is up to date. Based on these reviews it may be determined that a course is out of date resulting in the course being re-filmed or retired, if the content is no longer needed (e.g. a replacement course already exists, the concepts are no longer best practice, etc.).
How many courses does Medbridge offer?
We have over 3,000 accredited courses and we are continually updating our library with new courses. Check our course library for the most up-to-date count for your discipline.
Are there any additional fees for taking a Medbridge course?
There are no additional fees for taking a Medbridge course, obtaining a course certificate of completion, earning CEUs as a subscriber, or accessing any of the additional tools your subscription may include.
Is there a limit to the number of courses I can take?
There is no limit to the number of courses you can take as a subscriber! As a subscriber to Medbridge, you have unlimited access to over 3,000+ accredited CE courses.
If you are a Premium subscriber, you also have unlimited access to our Patient Engagement Tools such as the Home Exercise Program, Patient Education Library, Orthopedic Exam Tests, and Manual Therapy Techniques. We have over 7,000 exercises and over 650+ videos and handouts of patient education resources with more exercises and patient education added to the library based on subscriber feedback, volume of request and specialities.
What is your refund policy?
You are eligible for a refund provided your request is received within 30 days of your subscription purchase and your account has no activity.