Self Determination Theory, An Approach to Human Motivaion & Personality
SELF DETERMINATION THEORY Healthcare Professionals: Applications to Practice
WEDNESDAY 6|26 | Rochester Riverside Convention Center
OVERVIEW
This specialized training for health care practitioners is designed to help you learn the basic principles of Self-determination Theory and apply it in your practice so that you can create a need supportive environment that optimizes your patients' motivation and well-being.
Objective & Activities
Training Objectives
- Develop an understanding of the different motives that drive people’s health behaviors and how these motives affect behavior change and long-term health.
- Develop an understanding of how the healthcare environment can promote people’s ownership of healthcare decisions and help them develop skills to make health behavior changes.
- Learn how to support patients’ understanding of their own motivations, and help them to make choices about their health behaviors and develop skills to carry out those behaviors effectively.
Training Activities
- Discuss Self-determination Theory framework for understanding people’s reasons for changing health behaviors and for not wanting to do so.
- Discuss findings from healthcare research that show how different motives are differentially effective in promoting health behavior change outcomes.
- Discuss ways to support patients’ autonomy, competence, and relatedness, which have been shown to facilitate health and well-being.
- Practice interviewing people in ways that are optimally supportive of their psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness.
Training Leaders
Jennifer G. La Guardia, Ph.D.
Associate Professor Clinical, Department of Psychiatry, Sr. Research Associate, Center for Community Health, University of Rochester Medical Center
Richard M. Ryan, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology & Education and Director of Clinical Training in Clinical & Social Psychology at the University of Rochester
Daryl L. Sharp, Ph.D., PMHCNS-BC, NPP
Associate Professor of Clinical Nursing & Associate Dean for Faculty Development & Diversity, School of Nursing, Clinical Associate Professor & Director of Quality and Education, Healthy Living Center, Center for Community Health, University of Rochester Medical Center
Geoffrey C. Williams, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Medicine, Director of the Healthy Living Center, Center for Community Health, University of Rochester Medical Center
Please note that the Hyatt Regency is the only hotel reserved on the nights for the Pre-Conference.
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