Motivational Interviewing - Facilitating Behaviour Change

A 1-day Workshop. Max Number: 18
(Please note this seminar is also available as a 2-day seminar)

Do you have "heart sink" patients? Do you ever feel frustrated when patients don't seem able to change, even with your support?

Supporting people to change their behaviour is not always an easy task, yet one healthcare practitioners are faced with on a daily basis. This 1 day training aims to offer the participants an opportunity to consider their current consulting style, and introduce a number of behavioural change strategies, including strategies from the world of Motivational Interviewing, that can enhance current practice.

The development of a creative consulting method to changing behaviour can lead to improved outcomes in those individuals who appear to be resistant to change.

The workshop will encompass a mix of theory and practice, with role play demonstrations, and emphasis on participants being given time and supervision to practice skills and techniques.

Motivational Interviewing (MI) emerged from the field of addictions treatment in the 1980's.It's focus over the past decade has however broadened to behaviour change in general, and MI has been applied to many settings including healthcare, where it has been successfully used within brief clinical interventions.

9.30 Introduction

• Traditional practice, frustrations & pitfalls
• Considering the frustrations faced by health care practitioners in their clinical role
• Patient centered approach
  Looking at what a patient centered approach means, and what needs to be in place to work in a patient centered way

10.00 Stages of Change model

• Considering one of the main health belief models & it's place in understanding behaviour change
• Reflective listening skills; discussion & skills practice
• Opportunity to consider the importance of reflective listening to underpin a patient centered way of working, lots of opportunity to have fun!

10.45 COFFEE

11.00 MI, definition, theory & spirit

• Introducing motivational interviewing, the theory behind this approach, and it's necessary spirit, and it's relation to health behaviour change
• Goals of MI
• Looking at the goals of MI
• Five early methods (OARS) skills practice
• Skills practice of methods used early on working in an MI way
• Eliciting Change talk
• Presenting one of the key skills in MI
• Resistance
• Recognising & handling resistance in the healthcare setting
• Agenda setting
• Raising the topic, ways to set the agenda

12.30 LUNCH

1.30 MI - Methods & strategies

• Importance/confidence scales
• Considering a persons readiness to change, one way to elicit change talk. Opportunity to observe & practice.

2.15 Typical day

• Seeing how a behaviour fits into someone's life, understanding how it is for them

2.30 Decisional balance

• Tool for looking at Ambivalence faced when considering change, all sides of the coin

3.15 TEA

3.30 Providing information

• Decision making
• Providing advice & supporting what an individual can achieve in an MI consistent way

4.00 The Evidence & Summing up

• Looking at the evidence of MI & its applications in health care.
• Opportunity to consider how some of these techniques might be used in practice

4.30 FINISH

About the trainer

Judith Carpenter SRD is a registered dietitian who has extensive experience of working with both adults & children, across a whole range of clinical areas, but has specific experience supporting people with obesity, diabetes & eating disorders.

She has been training health care professionals nationally in behaviour change skills for the past decade, and is accredited to train Motivational Interviewing.

Judith is also an experienced PCT diabetes facilitator as well as being a Freelance Trainer for Talking Life.

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