Course Description:

This course will teach evidence-based communication and relationship-building principles and skills from motivational interviewing, relationship-centered communication, and shared-decision making that will help occupational therapists become more effective with their patients. The use of the skills taught in this course are shown to improve a patient's sense of partnership with their therapist, thereby improving patient satisfaction, and improve patient engagement in rehabilitation, thereby improving patient outcomes. The course is highly interactive and directly applicable to clinical work.