Lifestyle Medicine: Skills Session

Ensuring lifestyle medicine education gets to those that need it the most is critical, but education alone is not enough to create sustainable lifestyle changes. There are various skills that have proven to be successful in supporting patients in this regard.

Lifestyle medicine calls for a move away from the traditional doctor-patient relationship where the clinician is the expert information provider. This is needed because we now know that giving simple lifestyle advice such as “eat less and move more” is often ineffective.

To be effective in supporting lifestyle change, lifestyle medicine uses knowledge of behavioural science to work with patients. This way we can work with people and their values to support problem solving and equip them with skills to make the changes they want to make. Some of these techniques have been shown to be at least 80% more effective in supporting behaviour change than traditional advice giving and include:

Principles: Person Centred Care, Values Based Care, Supported Self Care
Techniques: Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Health Coaching, Brief Interventions, Goal Setting, Lifestyle Medicine Prescriptions
Delivery: Social Prescribing, Group Consultations, Use of Patient Activation Measures, Intensive Lifestyle Medicine Interventions, Lifestyle Screening Tool

Join us online to learn and be inspired by the trailblazers in lifestyle medicine. You'll gain an introduction to the many of the practical skills required to support patients with effective lifestyle change. This online study day is suitable for all roles within primary and secondary care health care delivery teams.

This event offers 6hrs CPD. This is an online only event, you will receive a link in your order confirmation and can join at any point on the day. The full recording will be sent post event.

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