Evening Workshop: 

Moving Towards Change:  Supporting Your Patient to Self Manage

This workshop was developed for health care providers in the Waterloo-Wellington region in response to their feedback.  It is designed to support health care providers in integrating behavioural change strategies with their patients in a quick 5 or 10 minute office or clinical visit.

The workshop is delivered by Dr. Michael Vallis, a registered health psychologist practicing at the Capital District Health Authority, Halifax and cross-appointed to Dalhousie University as Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Adjunct Professor in Psychology.  He developed the CDHA Behaviour Change Institute, a training program for lifestyle counselling skills for healthcare providers. 

Learning Objectives:

• To understand the behaviour change process to better establish goals, methods and outcomes
• To understand the role of health care professionals in effective behaviour change interventions
• To become familiar with motivational enhancement, behaviour modification and emotion management skills
• To discuss challenges to integration of these skills into clinical practice

Upcoming Workshops:

For more information regarding this workshop, please call 519-947-1000 ext 255 or  click here