MDFT 6652: Motivational Interviewing for Patient and Family Health (2024-2025)

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This seminar will focus on the impact of harmful health behaviors on health and wellness. It will review the need for psychosocial providers who can work with providers to help patients and families as they make a significant lifestyle change. Topics will include: US statistics of diseases caused largely by lifestyle, assessing values, priorities, barriers, and motivations to change of patient and families. Focus of class will be on introduction and practice of motivational interviewing skills. Graduate students outside MFT and MDFT, and CE professionals, may register with permission of the Medical Family Therapy program director or class instructor. Typically offered: Autumn.