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Using the OARS Strategies to Communicate With Patients AT015-3B
Academy TODAY: Summer 2019 - Volume 15, Number 3
Many patients struggle with making behavior changes that support their health and the effectiveness of our interventions. Clinicians often rely on delivering information repeatedly or in different formats to help patients make decisions that are in their best interest. Motivational interviewing (MI) is an approach to interacting with patients that is intended to activate and strengthen the patient’s motivation for change. Miller and Rollnick describe MI as “a skillful clinical style for eliciting from patients their own good motivations” and “a collaborative, person-centered form of guiding to elicit and strengthen motivation for change.”
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CEU:2.0
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John T. Brinkmann, MA, CPO, LPO, FAAOP(D); Monica M. Minetola, MS, CPO, ATC; Tyler M. DeLeo, MSOP, CPO