comMIt: Comprehensive Motivational Interviewing Training for Health Care Professionals

Learning Objectives
Explain why motivational interviewing was brought into health care from psychology.
Discuss the relationship between the human brain, threat, patients who are ambivalent of resistant to behavior change and the use of motivational interviewing.
Explain how sense making creates motivation for change.
Explain why rapport is crucial to behavior change.
Explain barriers to building trust and safety with the patient.
Define criteria for effectively addressing the issue.