Motivational Interviewing is a communication style that helps people

  • Realise they want to make a change

  • Determine their intrinsic motivation for change

  • Be guided into making the change

  • Resolve feelings of ambivalence

This online webinar will

  • Introduce participants to the spirit and processes of MI

  • Provide examples of some of the key skills

  • Explore MI skills through specific pelvic physiotherapy relevant examples

  • This is a lecture based course - a practical session may follow on if there is enough interest

  • Help you determine your patients reluctance or barriers to behavioural change and how to help them harness their intrinsic motivation to change

Successful physiotherapy interventions normally involve your patients or clients making some sort of lifestyle or behavioural change.

When it comes to lifestyle changes like exercise and nutrition most people know what they need to do, why they need to do it and they probably even know how they need to do it. 

BUT have you found that you are struggling with non-compliance from patients? Change isnt always easy. 

A top-down expert approach where you just explain the reasons that a person should change is rarely successful. 

Think about if you said to a smoker: “you know smoking can give you cancer?”. Will that immediately evoke change? How many times have you been frustrated when you have given someone, what you consider to be, the perfect exercise programme and they havent done it even one? 

With a Pelvic Physiotherapy lens 

How can you enhance motivation to get the behaviour changes needed?

Motivational interviewing is a collaborative conversation to strengthen a person’s own motivation for and commitment to change (Miller & Rollnick, 2013).

Instructor

Mandy Roscher

Mandy Röscher is a Physiotherapist living in Brisbane, Australia Mandy qualified as a Physiotherapist from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa in 2008. She has worked in Private Practice since she qualified. She has a keen special interest in Female and Children's Pelvic Health. Mandy has a passion for teaching and mentoring and has presented a variety of lectures to qualified physiotherapists. Topics have included a variety of Physiotherapy based subjects particularly around Women’s Pelvic Health, Sexual and Genital Pain, Musculoskeletal Assessment, Pain Neurophysiology, Pain Neuroscience Education and Communication. Her courses are centred around the most current evidence available but are extremely clinically orientated. She focuses on the clinical application and integration of current research and practice with the goal being that course participants leave feeling their circle of competence has increased.