Choices and Changes: Clinician Influence and Patient Action
Overview
Clinicians frequently express frustration about patient behavior and the impact of that behavior on health outcomes. Modern delivery systems, with their economic pressures, have brought a new focus to the concern for patient health behaviors. Choices and Changes is directed to the needs of clinicians working within the rigors of contemporary medical practice.
Historically, patient motivation and behavior were viewed as the domain of the patient. The implied assumption was that the clinician could do little more than provide information to influence the patient’s actions. We now know this to be an inaccurate assumption about the dynamic that takes place between clinician and patient.
- Duration 1/2 Day, 1 Day
- Accreditation Approved for CE
- Available To Clinicians
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Program
Choices and Changes provides clinicians with an opportunity to explore their own beliefs about the change process and to test out these beliefs against the empirical literature that has developed during the past twenty years. The program also provides the clinician with specific strategies that can be utilized within the highly time limited constraint of the typical office visit.
Choices and Changes uses videotaped case studies as a vehicle for small group interaction around realistic issues involving patients who are diabetic, smoking, post surgery, reluctant to make a medical decision, etc. Participants also practice using strategies with live case situations and receive feedback from their peers.
Choices and Changes can be offered in half, one, and three day versions depending upon the level of mastery that is desired. The program is designed for small groups of from six to twenty participants.