CEU
Motivational
Interviewing
by Christopher Costantini, C.Ped
In my grandparent’s generation, the Greatest Generation,
often a patient would do whatever their doctor or clinician
told them to do, simply because the doctor said to. The
doctor’s word was taken as gospel and that was that. Since
then, each subsequent generation, for better or worse, has
taken a more and more active role in decisions regarding
their treatment and put far less faith in the suggestions
of the clinician. Even when we are giving them the best
advice we can, a tried and true answer to the problems that
are plaguing them and have it dead right, we may not be
able to convince them to do as we ask. Even the simplest
requests, most logical arguments and appeals to common
sense are met with frustratingly stout resistance. “Why, oh
why” you ask? “We are laying out the answers to them, plain
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as day. We know what will help solve their foot problem,
or certainly what won’t, and can’t get them to heed our
advice.” Sounds like a common lament from pedorthists
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