Resistant Patients are Your
Greatest Teachers
Changing your professional
role from a health adviser to a motivational
guide can help you become a more effective
learner. The process of adopting a motivational
role can enhance your understanding about
the change process for your patients.
Most patients resist changing
their unhealthy habits when you merely
give them information and advice. Emotional
resistance and lack of motivation are
the "weakest links" in changing behavior.
Learn how to:
- Become a motivational guide
- Help patients lower their emotional
resistance before they can develop effective
motivation.
This learning process will
help you to:
- Reduce your frustrations with resistant
patients
- Develop effective partnerships with
them
- Engage in meaningful dialogues
- Create individualized interventions
- Enhance patient readiness to change
- Improve health outcomes
- Enrich your professional work
Use the Motivational
Practice guidebook to embark on a
life-long learning journey of developing
motivational skills.
Here are some key articles:
1. A concept
paper about Motivational Practice:
Transform your clinical work
2. Consider changing yourself
personally and professionally before helping
your patients.
3.
Go beyond the evidence-based mindset:
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