Managing patients struggling to find the reasons to engage in their treatment plans is often challenging, but there are many strategies that can help the clinician and ultimately, the patient. There is no recipe that will help in every...
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Working with patients or even staff who have strong beliefs that conflict with your own can be both stressful and difficult. In this blog I present some concepts to consider about when you feel the need to have the...
As health professionals we think it’s our duty to tell clients what they need to do to get better, that is, give advice. But as we all know, giving advice even when it’s the best available doesn’t alway...
You have just come out of a conversation that you had prepared for. You used the OIC format described in a previous blog and now it’s time to review how the conversation went with your plan. In this blog...
Commonly people go into important conversations without ever clarifying the outcome they want. They have no ‘compelling future’ to communicate to the listener. Without having a clear outcome it will be difficult to recognise opportunities in any conversation. In...
Behaviour change is hard wired to be difficult. I expected a patient who came to me with low back pain to exercise when she’d never exercised before. Here is how my patient taught me the importance of eliciting her ‘why’....
We will not always be at our best. If you care about what you do, it’s likely you will have some anxiety when pushed to your limits. I certainly did and I’d like to share with you 4 tools...
Have you ever wondered why some patients get better faster than others? I certainly thought about this when I compared the success of some patients to the poor outcomes of others. Visualisation could be one reason why some patients...
We all see and remember things differently. This difference has the potential to lead to frustration especially if your patient is a natural pessimist and you’re focused on what to do to help them. So what can you do...
