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Managing Risk: Health Law for Psychologists

Presenters: Kate Diesfeld and John Fitzgerald

Many psychologists are eager to learn about managing risk through knowledge of health law. Also, best practice is underpinned by application of relevant New Zealand law. Designed as an interactive session, this professional development programme integrates lectures and small group discussion by a legal academic and practising psychologist. Drawing upon issues that arise in practice, including:

• What guidance does the the law provide regarding professional boundaries?
• What are the standards of professional competence and consequences for breach?
• What may we learn from cases involving protection, and disclosure, of health information?
• What strategies diminish risk and promote best practice?

When: 1 September 2010
Where: Narrows Landing, 431 Airport Rd, Tamahere, Hamilton
Cost: NZPsS Member $200.00, Non Member $250.00, NZPsS Student $150.00
Contact: email pd@psychology.org.nz
Brochure: » download now

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Motivational Interviewing (MI)

Presenter: Dr Eileen Britt

MI is a collaborative client-centred form of guiding to elicit and strengthen motivation for change, which provides a means of working with clients who are ambivalent about change. It has proven efficacy as an intervention for substance use problems (e.g., alcohol abuse and dependence). Additionally, there is increasing evidence of its effectiveness across a broad range of behaviours, including health behaviour change (e.g. medication compliance, diet and exercise, diabetes), offending, and psychological disorders (e.g., eating and anxiety disorders).

This workshop will present an overview of MI research, theory and practice. The workshop is designed to be interactive. Participants will experience and practice MI, and receive feedback on this practice during the workshop, and for this reason numbers attending will be limited. The overall aims of the workshop are that participants will:

• develop an understanding of what MI is
• develop an understanding of the evidence-base for MI and how it works
• develop an understanding of the fundamental spirit and principles of MI
• learn the basic clinical style of MI, and how to continue learning it in practice

Dr Eileen Britt is a Clinical Psychologist and Fellow of the NZCCP. She is a lecturer at the University of Canterbury (Christchurch) in the Health Sciences Centre, teaching two post-graduate papers on Motivational Interviewing, and on the Post-Graduate Diploma in Clinical Psychology programme, where she is also currently Director of Clinical Training. Eileen is also employed as a Research Fellow, providing supervision on psychotherapy research trials, at the Department of Psychological Medicine (Christchurch). Her PhD was on MI applied to diabetes self-management, and she currently has three papers on MI published in peer reviewed journals. Eileen has attended training for Motivational Interviewing Trainers (partially funded by the NZCCP Study/Research Award), and is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers.

When: 18 & 19 October 2010
Where: Tauranga
Cost: free to NZCCP members; non-members $250
Registration form: » download now
For details: see www.nzccp.co.nz