Motivational Interviewing: Taming Your Fixing Reflex
Presented by Dawn Clifford
Nonfinancial: Dawn Clifford has no competing nonfinancial interests or relationships with regard to the content presented in this course.
Enhance your patients’ motivation to prioritize their health and rehabilitation by changing the way you communicate. This course provides an overview of motivational interviewing, an effective client-centered communication technique that can be applied across disciplines. Learn how to move away from telling your patients what to do and why to do it. This course provides practical skills for communicating with compassion and nonjudgment, putting your patient in the driver’s seat.
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
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. Motivational Interviewing 101
Learn about the basic principles of motivational interviewing (MI) and why it’s being used by allied health professionals all over the world. Watch how practitioner–patient interactions can be dramatically enhanced with the use of MI techniques, and walk away with practical strategies to start shifting the way you communicate.
2. The Spirit of Motivational Interviewing
The spirit of motivational interviewing refers to the underlying mindset of the practitioner. This chapter covers the four different components that MI practitioners aim to maintain when communicating with their patients in order to create a judgment-free environment for rehab and recovery.
3. Avoiding the Expert Trap
In this session, MI practitioners will become more aware of the human tendency to inundate patients with facts, figures, and recommendations for change. Often attempts to pressure or persuade patients to change are ineffective and can even reduce practitioner–patient alliance. Learn how to shift your approach from the “I have all the answers” mindset toward empowering your patients to contemplate and problem-solve the various steps on their rehab journey.
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
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