A great partner of the BNI ART Institute Dr. Edwin Boudreaux of UMASS Memorial Medical School Departments of Emergency Medicine, Psychiatry, and Quantitative Health Sciences recently published an article on RBIRT (Remote Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment). After an in-hospital screening, the BIRT part of SBIRT is performed through the RBIRT call-in service and […]
In the brief intervention part of SBIRT, we teach people to give feedback as a way to educate patients on drugs and alcohol, consistent with the tenants of motivational interviewing: respecting the patient’s autonomy and building a shared agenda toward behavior change. We recommend using “elicit-provide-elicit” when providing any feedback or health education. The first […]
This is the first in a series of posts on what we think about when we think about a good brief negotiated interview (BNI). Empathy is a word that often comes up when we ask trainees what they think is important when having a conversation with a patient about making important changes in their lives. […]
by Llaen Coston-Clark I recently stumbled upon NIAAA’s practitioner’s guide on Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention for Youth. There are two forms: 1) an easy to use, pocket-sized guide that breaks down the steps of screening and brief intervention (SBI), and offers information on standard drinks, resources, and when to screen patients, and 2) a […]
by Deric Joseph Nowinski, a clinical psychologist, and Robert Doyle, a clinical psychiatry instructor at Harvard Medical School, recently wrote a book called Almost An Alcoholic: Is My (or My Loved One’s) Drinking a Problem? that outlines problem drinking as a continuum that includes a gray area (“almost an alcoholic”) beyond the dichotomy of “alcoholic” […]
by Llaen Coston-Clark According to the founders of motivational interviewing, a communication style “refers to an attitude and approach to helping patients, a way of talking with them that characterizes your relationship with them.” They identify three communication styles which can be imagined as points on a continuum: Following at one end, Directing at the […]
