Motivational Interviewing for Health Care Professionals:

"This can serve as a useful reference and should be reviewed by any healthcare professional whose interactions with patients involve changing patient behavior or patients making decisions related to their healthcare."

Motivational Interviewing for Health Care Professionals: A Sensible Approach presents a new way of teaching the theory and practice of motivational interviewing (MI) to health care professionals (HCPs).

MI has been shown to improve treatment adherence and outcomes, promote health behavior change, improve patient satisfaction with care, and increase retention rates in complex case management. But sharing medical expertise while empowering patients to make their own decisions can be a daunting task. This book describes how MI effectively replaces everyday persuasive strategies and language habits that trigger resistance in patients, and how this can be overcome through building rapport with the patient and listening to the patient’s reasoning and concerns.

Using MI will enable HCPs to communicate with patients in a clear, concise, and structured way. HCPs will have a greater impact on improving patient outcomes by using the tools and skills in this book.

KEY FEATURES:
• A practical, step-by-step approach to the use of MI skills and tools in all practice settings
• Multiple dialogues between HCPs and patients to illustrate the use of MI skills and tools
• Case studies including extensive dialogues with video links, plus analysis of the cases, to demonstrate the effectiveness of MI

TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Preface
1. Why Another Book on Motivational Interviewing?
2. Preparing to Be Patient Centered
3. What is Motivational Interviewing? A Short History
4. Toward a New Theory of Motivational Interviewing
5. Understanding Sense Making and Practical Reasoning
6. Developing Rapport
7. Reframing the Issue
8. Next Steps
9. Special Considerations
10. Putting It All Together
11. Considerations for Putting MI into Use
Index