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Chunking Down Health Issues with your Clients
We are multi-taskers; we spend our days trying to do so many things at the same time, all in the name of efficiency and accomplishment, or so we think. Most often, our multi-focus results in strong feelings of getting nowhere fast or being too busy, swamped, and just plain overwhelmed.
Getting to the Core of your Clients
You may be familiar with the TED talks, a nonprofit venture devoted to ideas worth spreading. They are available online and they are inspirational. Recently, Simon Sinek did a talk wherein he revealed a very simple, but powerful model for inspirational leadership. It can be viewed and heard at https://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action/comments
See Me…Heal Me
‘See Me…Feel Me…Touch Me…Heal Me‘ forms the haunting, opening song lyrics composed by The Who for the performance of the Tommy Rock Opera in the late 1960s. As a refrain, they are particularly appropriate, poignant, and even prescriptive words-to-heed for health practitioners.
We’re all busy, why bother learning Applied Motivational Interviewing (AMI) tools?
There are so many continuing education options out there for practitioners, and so little time for you to do them all. So, what does the research tell us about why we should bother learning AMI tools? Well, it is clear that MI is not a fad, and now that enough time has passed and enough… Read more
Affirming and Acknowledging ~ Keys to Reflective Listening
‘What is it like to be you?’ Imagine if this question were the fundamental or main question you kept in mind when counseling and working with your patients. Every one of us is unique and special. As health professionals, it is vital to be in the mind-set of genuine curiosity about each and every patient.