I am a Professor of Psychiatry, Emeritus, at Stony Brook University Medical Center and Clinical Professor of Scientific Education at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. I have had a long-standing career interest for improving communication and outcomes in healthcare. Working in Federally Qualified Health Centers with patients with chronic illness, I developed Brief Action Planning (BAP), with input from several other members of MINT (Connie Davis, Damara Gutnick and Kathy Reims) to help clinicians support patient self-management. BAP is a Motivational Interviewing consistent tool to help people change and to support self-management for health and well-being. It is also an evidence-informed tool to help MI clinicians transition into and through the process of Planning. BAP-MI is a stepped care integration of evidence-informed skills from BAP and MI for health behavior change. BAP-MI has been presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Psychiatric Association (2020 and 2022), the MINT Forum, (2020 and 2021), and the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Consultation-Liaision Psyhciaty (2021).
I am currently completing the fourth edition of a textbook on medical interviewing, The Medical Interview: The Three Function Approach to Relationship-Centered Care, Elsevier, in press, 2023. The three functions we describe are Connection, Co-Construction, and Collaboration. BAP-MI is an important set of skills for Function Three: Collaboration for Care. We train medical students, physicians, and other health care clinicians in use of the three function approach, BAP, and BAP-MI.
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