Team Dynamics Rx: Motivating Change For Better Health

This is the second part of the activity, please visit this page to view the first part

The aim of this activity is to have students work with students from other disciplines to collaborate and use motivational interviewing skills to move an at-risk client to another stage of change. This will allow students to learn effective team dynamics, and how to work together to motivate change in a client. This will be important for when students start to work in their field.

In teams, students will consider the at-risk client’s issues including physical, health, and daily life. They will then role play using motivational interviewing skills to help move this client to change.

This activity is a follow-up to Team Dynamics Rx: Building Trust for Better Patient Outcomes. It takes place in-class, in the middle of the semester, after the students have already learned about motivational interview skills. Since this activity takes place in third year, students have already participated in interdisciplinary activities. The strategy used is role-play which allows the students to act out how they work as a team during three meetings with the client.

Students will be able to:

• Apply team functioning skills from Team Functioning Part 1​
• Apply motivational interviewing skills from discipline specific courses​
• Intervene with a client, Giovanni, in their home