Textbook Talk: Dr. Michael Flaum on Motivational Interviewing as a Core Communication Style

Dr. Michael Flaum and Dr. Rob Gadomski discuss key takeaways from the Motivational Interviewing (MI) as a Core Communication Style chapter of the Textbook of Community Psychiatry and more! Timestamps: 00:25 Introductions 05:30 Paradoxical Effect of Coercion 08:10 Change Talk and Sustain Talk 11:39 The Power of Language 17:22 The 'Meta-Processes’ of MI 25:16 Advice to Trainees and Community Psychiatrists Created by the American Association for Community Psychiatry (AACP). Purchase the Textbook of Community Psychiatry | Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change and Grow, 4th Edition by Miller and Rollnick | Effective Psychotherapists: Clinical Skills That Improve Client Outcomes by Miller and Moyers | Free AACP Membership for Medical Students, Residents, and Fellows | Other AACP Membership | Instagram | Twitter | Listener Survey | Follow, review, and share! Guest: Michael Flaum, MD, is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Iowa and the immediate past president of the American Association for Community Psychiatry. His work has focused on optimizing the quality, effectiveness and access to psychiatric services within publicly-funded settings. He has been an active member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) since 2011, working to promote the use of MI within mental health settings as a core communication style, as a means of advancing recovery-oriented, person-centered care, and more recently, as a potential antidote to clinician burnout. Host: Rob Gadomski, DO is the Deputy Medical Director of Psychiatric Services at Project Renewal, Inc and a graduate of the Columbia Public Psychiatry Fellowship in June 2022. He works primarily with homeless and marginalized individuals in the New York City area. He went to the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine for medical school and completed his psychiatry residency training at Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia before moving to NYC, where he gathered an interest in working with homeless populations and individuals interacting with the criminal legal system. Editor: Aldwin Soumare, DO Credit Attribution: Stock Media provided by StockAudios / Pond5