Workshops
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Featured Using Motivational Interviewing to Promote Lifestyle Change: Evidence-based Practice View Digital Media
Workshop Presentation Elizabeth Larson
LIVE Zoom Session 2 September 2021 8AM CST (Meeting ID: 947 4120 5943 Passcode: 542837) - Many costs to treat chronic conditions are attributable to modifiable lifestyle behaviors. Health professionals work every day to support clients in developing meaningful wellness goals. Yet some clients are less successful despite their best intentions. In this workshop, participants will learn motivational interviewing (MI) skills to coach clients to enact effective lifestyle changes. MI has shown to be effective in increasing clients’ adoption of healthy lifestyle changes. In MI, with the practitioners’ support, the client identifies their lifestyle issues and develops a personal solution to instituting health-promoting activities into daily repertoires. This Rogerian approach focuses on the client as the author and actor of lifestyle change; the practitioners belief in this tenet has been shown as key to effective motivational interviewing. The workshop will begin with an overview of current evidence supporting MI. Next, participants will engage in exercises/strategies that will enhance their capacity to elicit client’s authentic goals and support clients’ lifestyle change. Participants will use these skills with each other to develop their own wellness goals. Participants will practice strategically employing several MI approaches (open-ended questions, and reflective listening). As part of the workshop exercises, participants will also reflect and give peer feedback to each other using a standardized tool and MI approach in order to enhance skill development. This workshop will train participants in skills that can be used in a range of clinical settings to promote wellness and goal achievement.
The Power of Integrative Medicine and the Group in Equitably Advancing Health and Wellbeing View Digital Media
Workshop Presentation Ruthann Russo
Social and economic conditions profoundly impact health. Integrative medicine practices have been found to address the primary causes of most chronic disease. In addition, group treatments provide a clinically effective and economically affordable methodology for treating chronic conditions. Nonprofit health systems are legally required to promote health equitably in their communities. Combining integrative medicine practices with hospital-sponsored community group interventions promotes health by addressing the root cause of chronic disease, decreases isolation, and provides accessible and affordable care for all community members. This presentation reviews the research, in the form of participatory action research, case studies, and a systematic review to support these claims. Attendees will be provided with an evidence-based map for creating integrative medicine group interventions. To apply the learning, attendees will also learn and practice five integrative medicine therapies.
Stress Management Through Humor View Digital Media
Workshop Presentation Ronald Dolon
The use of humor is a way to promote mental and physical health. Hans Selye, an expert on stress, noted a person’s interpretation of stress is not only dependent on the external event, but is also affected by that person’s perception and meaning of the event. The philosopher John Morrell believes that people first laughed as a sign of relief after they were exposed to danger and then shared a collective sigh of relief as the danger passed. Humor has been viewed as a way of looking at a situation from a different point of view, diffusing a crisis and providing opportunity for increased insight. A sense of humor is a powerful stress coping behavior. Research indicates how we deal with stress influences our lives and relationships to health. tress has been connected to heart disease, chronic fatigue and low self-esteem. Humor produces the opposite psychological response to stress. Stress may cause a rapid pulse, tightening of muscles, and increased blood pressure. After laughing, all these symptoms are decreased. Research from the Department of Clinical Immunology at Loma Linda University School of Medicine suggests that laughter stimulates the immune system, offsetting the effects of stress. Understanding factors which foster humor will provide an approach to creating humor. This workshop explores the benefits of using humor as a tool to reduce stress through video, experiential exercises, and handouts.
