Motivational Interviewing for Behavior Change with Stephen Rollnick, PhD PH257
Pursuing Health
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The Importance of Patience in Motivational Interviewing
Lucy: I loved what you mentioned earlier about this visual of sitting on your hands. And I think that's what I want to do with this process and having to catch yourself wanting to fall into one of those traps along the way, like even as you mentioned when Lucy says, Oh, I really want to focus on fitness and then the diet will come. You know, I could see myself wanting to jump in there and want to start giving advice or giving solutions but being patient through all the steps of that process and really evoking the answers. So definitely requires a lot of patience but I've seen it myself with, you know, I remember the first time I did in residency where
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