This course is Lesson 6 of a recently completed webinar entitled, "Nutrition and Chronic Disease Management." Successfully completing this lesson will earn 1.5 CEs. For accreditation information and presenter biographies, Click here.

Topics:

I. Communication

A. Basic skills
B. Techniques that promote motivation

1. OARS (Open Ended Question, Affirmations, Reflection, Summarize)
2. Non-verbal listening
3. Reframing
4. Shifting focus
5. Goal setting

C. Motivational interviewing (MI) is a client centered counseling style for eliciting behavior change which helps clients explore and resolve ambivalence.

II. Goals of MI are to help the person:

A. Explore the behavior for themselves
B. Analyze cost/benefit ratio of status quo
C. Decrease potential resistance to change
D. Move toward being more ready to discuss and make changes in behavior
E. Clarify goals
F. Develop realistic strategies to facilitate change
G. Create a safe non-threatening environment for discussion

III. Motivational interviewing techniques:

A. Express empathy
B. Develop discrepancies
C. Roll with resistance
D. Support self-efficacy
E. Assessing Readiness to change

Behavioral/Learning Objectives:

1. Define motivational interviewing.
2. State 3 goals of motivational interviewing.
3. Describe 2 techniques of motivational interviewing.