Closing the gap

After taking this course, you will be able to:

• Identify key principles of motivational interviewing
• Develop basic skills in techniques seen in motivational interviewing
• Practice ways of asking questions and speaking with clients to bring about behavioural change
• Recognise where a person is in the circle of change.

Participants will attend a 20-minute pre-assessment, a two-day course* and a 20-minute post-assessment as part of the research and evaluation.

Day One Interactive Session looking at how to have effective health change conversation using the skills from Motivational interviewing. There will be a series of videos and remote teaching looking at some basic skills to start the conversations about making health changes and wellbeing. There will be a focus on those patients who might also have underlying mental health conditions.

Day Two A virtual simulation day to embed new knowledge and skills with a series of simulated real-life scenarios using actors as simulated patients. There will be a structured debrief to help draw out the skills developed on day one. The evaluation will measure the impact of the training on clinician attitudes and empathy towards service-users with severe mental illness, alongside observable changes in their communication skills.

*Please note you need to have completed day one to join day two.