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Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a valuable skill for public health professionals, enhancing patient engagement and promoting behavior change in areas like smoking cessation and chronic disease management. While it should be a core competency in public health training, its application should be flexible, based on clinical situations. MI is most beneficial in settings where patient motivation is central, but it may not be as effective in time-sensitive situations like emergency care. Not all public health roles require MI; instead, training should focus on essential skills like empathy and active listening. This ensures MI is used appropriately when needed, leading to better patient outcomes.

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I believe motivitaional interviewing should be a essential skill for all public health professionals for the following, it is helpful for the behavioral change of the patients, it increases the trust and engagement within the community. The help in aiding in behavioral change is crucial since in public health it at times requires individuals/patient to make changes. Helping built trust and eggament for future health promotion, using motivational interviewing will help built this trust within the community. Although, motivational interviewing could serve as a essential skill there is the challenge of providing the funds and proper training for those working in a public health setting.

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I think motivational interviewing should be part of public health skill for professionals. Because it will encourage behavior change such as quitting smoking and engaging in healthier behaviors like exercise. Also it creates a relationship between health professionals and people so that they feel more comfortable and compromised to reach their health goals. Also it reinforces respect and self confidence when people are motivated to do things like change unhealthy behaviors because they are doing it for themselves on their own terms and not because they are being told to do it. Therefore they have more chances of keeping and maintaining the change.

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I believe that motivational interviewing should be mandatory when it comes to public health. MI is set to promote healthier, life choices, and positive health outcomes. This being said I think that’s something a sick patient would want to have. For example, someone who wants to stop their smoking addiction, MI can help their behavior change towards their addiction for a better and healthier lifestyle.

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I believe that motivational interviewing should be a mandatory skill for all public health professionals because it encourages people to make healthier lifestyle changes and adopt positive behaviors. Motivational interviewing helps patients explore and resolve uncertainty through a patient-centered, directed approach to encourage behavioral change. Motivational interviewing for public health professionals encourages direct communication with individuals and emphasizes empathy, respect, and care to improve health outcomes and address these challenging health behaviors. Motivational interviewing is a powerful technique that enhances patient care in direct fields that engage and communicate with individuals.

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I believe motivational interviewing is a very important skill for public health professionals to have. In my opinion, this should be a mandatory skill due to a few reasons. The main reason is that public health professionals focus a lot of their efforts on behavior change. They are constantly working to help encourage healthy behaviors such as to stop smoking, improve diet, and encourage exercise. Another reason is that motivational interviewing will improve communication. Skills like empathetic listening and collaborative goal setting will be used. Lastly, motivational interviewing is shown to be very effective in encouraging health behaviors.

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While I recognize the many benefits of utilizing motivational interviewing in public health, I feel that it is too strong of language to mandate it into the work field. I would recommend that MI be promoted in Public Health roles where applicable, such as for doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other health professionals who work directly with patients. Using MI in these settings has shown heightened communication and better interactions between patients and providers, and improved relationships. However, motivational interviewing may not be necessary in all types of public health jobs, such as researchers in the epidemiological field and those doing lab work. Additionally, to mandate MI, companies would need to find funding to allocate towards MI training for every staff member, which could be costly. To be realistic, I think MI should be implemented where it can be most impactful and encouraged but not mandatory in other roles.

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Motivational interviewing should be a mandatory skill for all public health professionals. It can be used to connect and get a deeper understanding of their patients, as well as in the work place with coworkers to figure out better solutions. MI builds indivduals up and opens healthy conversations that can lead to healthier life habits. This is an important skill overall in public health.

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Yes, I believe motivational interviewing should be a required skill for all public health professionals. The article “Motivational Interviewing: An Evidence-Based Approach” explains how MI helps patients work through mixed feelings and make positive changes by using empathy and supportive conversation. It’s been shown to improve health outcomes in areas like smoking, high blood pressure, and managing chronic conditions. Since public health workers often support people facing challenges with access and behavior change, having a tool like MI can really make a difference. It’s both structured and flexible, which makes it useful in a variety of situations. Teaching all public health professionals this skill would help them connect better with patients and encourage long-term health improvements in their communities.

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Motivational interviewing represents a valuable approach in public health practice, offering evidence-based techniques to support behavior change through collaborative conversation. While its effectiveness is well-documented, mandating motivational interview training across all public health roles requires a lot of consideration. A balanced approach might include basic motivational interviewing principles as foundational knowledge for all public health professionals, with comprehensive training targeted to those in client-facing positions. This acknowledges the value of the interviewing while recognizing the field's diverse workforce needs and resource constraints.

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Yes, motivational interviewing should be a mandatory skill for all public health professionals. Motivational interviewing builds trust and enhances long term health outcomes by promoting self motivation. It utilizes collaborative and non confrontational approaches leading to more substantial and sustainable changes.

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For patient contact that requires behavior change, motivational interviewing should be a mandatory skill for all public health professionals. Motivational interviewing allows professionals to actively listen to the patient and sympathize. It helps providers guide patients in taking part in changing their behavior. There are barriers which may prevent a patient from participating in behavioral change. By addressing these barriers with the patient and guiding them towards a solution, patients are more likely to be motivated to change. Allowing patients to have a part in their health is key.

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Motivational interviewing should be a mandatory skill for all public health professionals because it allows for focus on the patient's perspective and promotes behavior change. For example, in the public health profession, it is important to have MI when collaborating with community members and trying to change health behaviors such as diet and exercise when facing a community with high obesity rates. MI allows for interactions that are not confrontational or authoritative, which does not allow people to use their own strengths and efforts toward change and progress. Using open-ended questions can help clients or members express their concerns or thoughts more efficiently. It is important to use MI because it allows individuals and the public to have control and empowerment over their own decisions, and this can promote behavior change that will last over time.

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Yes, motivational interviewing should be a mandatory skill for all public health professionals. Motivational interviewing helps build trust and encourages people to make positive health changes on their own timeline. It’s very useful when addressing behaviors like smoking, poor diet, substance use, etc. Through motivational interviewing, public health professionals can promote long-term change more effectively.

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Motivational interviewing is a wonderful technique that can build confidence in improving health behaviors and outcomes amongst patients. It is an evidence-based approach that is proven to be more effective than traditional advice given to someone. I believe that not every public health professional needs to learn this technique. The four strategies involved in motivational interviewing take years to truly perfect. Reflective listening, asking open ended questions, affirmations, and summarizing can be hard for people to do. Some public health professionals may not be interested in face-to-face interactions with patients. They instead contribute to public health through data analysis, epidemiology, and file organization. We cannot force everyone to learn motivational interviewing. Public health professionals who do speak with patients on a daily basis should learn the technique as it can drastically improve health outcomes.

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Motivational interviewing (MI) should be a highly encouraged skill for public health professionals, especially those directly working with individuals to promote behavior change. It fosters collaboration, helps address ambivalence, and empowers people to make sustainable changes. While MI is crucial for roles like health educators or counselors, it may not be necessary for all public health positions, such as researchers or data analysts. Instead of being mandatory, MI training could be tailored to those who engage in direct behavioral interventions, improving their effectiveness in motivating change.

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Motivational interviewing should be encouraged and taught to public health professionals. Motivational interviewing helps people make healthier decisions because public health deals with behavior changes such as vaccination, and physical activity. It can improve patient-centered communication because MI builds respectful and open conversations that can be useful when talking about sensitive health issues or working with a diverse population. MI also helps build trust and engagement by focusing on individual motivation. In order for patients to feel motivated to take positive actions, MI helps build a supportive relationship between healthcare professionals and patients. It is crucial that MI encourages motivation by adopting collaboration, empathic, and non-judgemental relationship with the patients.

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Motivational interviewing is a useful technique that empowers individuals to make personal efforts and behavior changes in their daily lives with healthier choices in mind. Because the concept of motivational interviewing is patient-centered, it allows healthcare professionals to establish trust and strong communication with patients of all backgrounds. I feel that motivational interviewing should be a mandatory skill for only some public health professionals because it prioritizes the values of the patient and can also lead to long term, positive behavior changes. However there are other public health professionals that do not interact with patients as much, such as public health data analysts or epidemiologists. Therefore, I feel that motivation interviewing should be required for public health professionals that encounter patients on a daily basis.

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Motivational interviewing (MI) is a valuable skill for many public health professionals because it helps encourage behavior change in a supportive and patient-centered way. Public health focuses on improving health outcomes by promoting behaviors like smoking cessation, healthy eating, exercise, and vaccination. MI is effective because it respects a person’s autonomy while helping them explore their own reasons for making healthier choices. Instead of giving direct instructions, MI uses open-ended questions, reflective listening, and encouragement to strengthen a person’s motivation and confidence in their ability to change.

However, while MI is useful, it may not need to be mandatory for all public health professionals. The field includes many roles, such as epidemiologists, policy analysts, and data scientists, who do not work directly with individuals or communities in a counseling or health education capacity. For professionals in these roles, MI may not be as relevant to their daily work.

Instead of requiring MI for everyone, it should be strongly encouraged for those in health education, clinical settings, and community outreach—where direct communication and behavior change are key parts of the job. Offering more MI training opportunities could improve public health efforts without making it a strict requirement for all professionals.

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Motivational interviewing is a great and valuable skill set, as it is used to help and facilitate patients health behaviors. It also helps in promoting certain interventions that target all sorts of chronic diseases. However, I don't think motivational interviewing should be a mandatory skill for all public health professionals, since the public health sector is a very broad and diverse spectrum with different roles, such as being nurses, health educators, epidemiologist, food and safety investigator, and so much more. While I think it should not be a mandatory skill for all public health professionals, I do think all individuals should acknowledge and be aware of motivational interviewing as it may applied to certain situations when promoting healthy lifestyles and interventions.

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Motivational Interviewing is a beneficial tool for patient contact/etiquette. The important thing while talking to a patient is to make sure they feel heard, and assured they're in good hands; this is especially important on their worst day. One of the four core counseling principles is "Express Empathy", it's the first on the list of principles and there's a reason for that. Being able to reassure the patient, or client, that their situation is valid for concern, or perhaps their feelings about change of routine are both top considerations while speaking to a patient. The top skill used in Motivational Interviewing is "Reflective Listening", and this goes hand in hand with expressing empathy. It show's that you're listening, and it could diminish resistance. Motivational Interviewing should be practiced because it would make everything so much smoother by allowing the patient to feel secure.

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I believe that motivational interviewing should be a mandatory skill for all public health professionals because, according to the articles, it is a proven method for helping people make meaningful health changes. Many individuals struggle with behaviors like smoking, poor diet, or medication non-adherence, even when they know the risks. Instead of simply giving advice, motivational interviewing helps professionals guide patients to recognize their own reasons for change and bridge certain discrepancies that patients have, making them more likely to follow through. Studies show that motivational interviewing improves health outcomes in areas like chronic disease management and addiction treatment. It also builds trust between healthcare providers and patients, creating a supportive environment for long-term success. Overall, by making motivational interviewing mandatory, public health professionals will be better equipped to motivate behavior change, reduce healthcare costs, and ultimately improve community health.

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Motivational interviewing should be a mandatory skill for all healthcare professionals. Motivational interviewing goes hand-in-hand with motivating patients to make behavioral changes is an important nursing task and helps to develop and evaluate methods of promoting treatment adherence. Motivational interviewing is based on the four principles of expressing empathy, developing a discrepancy, rolling with resistance, and to support self-efficacy. The four skills of motivational interviewing include reflective listening, asking open questions, affirming, and summarizing when with a patient. I believe motivational interviewing should be a mandatory skill for all public healthcare professionals because it will help patients to make change. It helps when employing the transtheoretical model of change to drive patients to make change through precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance. Through the studies we can see evidence that motivational interviewing, patients who received the high-level intervention had decreased blood pressure and body weight. This is another reason why healthcare professionals should be trained in motivational interviewing; it will help patients to be more motivated to have positive health results.

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Motivational interviewing, also known as MI, is a concept that is valuable in the Public Health field. The idea of this approach being required is great, so I would agree that it should be mandatory. While some might argue that not all public health professions require patient interaction, the same methods used in MI can be applied when working with anyone. Public health professionals are more than likely to collaborate with other professionals, and building a strong partnership can be done by implementing a MI approach. Reflective listening, asking open ended questions, affirming, and summarizing are methods that can be used when working with anyone and not just patients. By using these methods when working with others, there will be a strong sense of communication allowing for better outcomes in any situation even if it doesn’t partake in patient-centered interaction.

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Motivational interviewing is a great tool that helps us to better connect with individuals while also gathering valuable information. Displays of empathy in any social interaction such as interviewing whether it is inside or outside of the Public Health realm is extremely important to practice. I believe that motivational interviewing should be a mandatory skill in select situations. For example, motivational interviewing would best suit situations that require behavior change, requires encouragement or motivation, or when there is difficulty or resistance to change. I believe that the context of the situation would help to determine if motivational interviewing would be effective since it is not a "one size fits all" approach. However, motivational interviewing can be combined with other strategies to create a more adaptable approach.

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I think motivational interviewing is a very strong and valuable tool that can enhance the effectiveness of health interventions, but I don't think it should be a mandatory skill for all public health professionals to attempt to incorporate. However, I do think that all public health professionals should be aware of and take advantages of opportunities to learn about motivational interviewing's principles and potential applications. Motivational interviewing can be absolutely influential when it comes to helping facilitate meaningful behavioral changes in individuals, and it has a lot of applications in health contexts where lifestyle adjustments may be necessary such as having to motivate a patient to take medication, motivating a patient to stop smoking, and motivating a patient to change their diet. However--I think it's important to remember that not all public health roles directly involve one-on-one patient interactions where motivational interviewing is deployed. As such, while I think motivational interviewing is a very important skill, I don't think it's necessary for every public health professional to learn.

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While motivational interviewing offers great advantages in promoting behavior change, implementing this mandatory skill for all public health professionals would not be a practical approach. These skills are primarily for roles that require direct patient contact like health providers, which not every public health professional needs to apply. Whether the public health professional is involved with direct patient contact or not, I still do not think it should be mandatory. Epidemiology and environmental health are examples of jobs where motivational interviewing is not necessary to motivate someone to change. Training all public health professionals in motivational interviewing would come at a financial cost and could eventually raise costs for the systems they work in or even for the patients.

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After reviewing this week's materials, I do not think that motivational interviewing needs should be mandatory for all public health professionals. According to the article by Emmons & Rollnick (2001), motivational interviewing was developed specialists in the field of addiction who were looking at addressing problem drinking. I think that motivational interviewing can be effective in public health and should be utilized when trying to encourage people to make a health behavior change. However, public health professionals can work in a variety of spaces. If someone is an epidemiologist working in a lab or just simply in a position that doesn't focus on working directly with people, I don't think they should be required to obtain this skill. However, public health professionals working in positions focused on community outreach or health promotion should be required to learn this skill.

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While motivational interviewing seems like a useful skill, I do not think that it should be mandatory for every public health professional to learn. Motivational interviewing takes the approach of focusing on the patient in an attempt to encourage them to develop healthy practices like taking prescribed medication. This skill also requires health professionals to meet with their patients more frequently, and was originally developed to help patients who have addictions. I think that because of this, more research may need to be done on motivational interviewing before it can be seen as a mandatory skill. That way researchers could determine if benefits are seen because patients are getting seen more and therefore feel pushed to adhere to their treatment plan, or if it is because of the motivational interviewing.

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Motivational interviewing is a great tool to use, but I do not think it should be mandatory. I was not aware of what MI was until viewing this week's materials, but learned that is a useful tool. MI has its advantages as it helps build rapport, helps patients adopt healthier lifestyles/behaviors, and provides patient-centered care, but it can only help for certain situations like addiction, weight loss, and any other situations in which a patient should feel motivated to take action. Many patients might find it as a waste of time and want a resolution right away. Another thing to mention is that this type of interviewing needs to have a highly-skilled and trained interviewer to conduct the interview for it to be effective. MI is a great way to connect patient to provider and curate a personalized solution. MI is not always the most appropriate course of actions as it might not be ideal for all people.

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Yes, motivational interviewing should be required for all public health professionals. Motivational interviewing is a way of talking with people that helps them feel understood and supported while they think about making changes in their lives. Since a big part of public health is helping people make healthier choices, motivational interviewing gives professionals the tools to have meaningful and respectful conversations that can lead to real change. Public health is not just about giving people facts. It is about understanding their struggles and helping them find their reasons to change. Motivational interviewing does this by focusing on listening, empathy, and collaboration, which is especially important when working with people from different backgrounds who may not fully trust the healthcare system or face other challenges. Teaching motivational interviewing to all public health professionals would make health programs more effective and respectful of the people they serve.

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Motivational interviewing should be a mandatory skill for all public health professionals. Public health professionals should use the purposes of motivational interviewing with the proper training. With professional and proper training it’ll be the only way for motivational interviewing to be effective through communication and changes within a patient’s health outcome. Motivational interviewing helps express empathy through reflective listening, it develops discrepancy between client goals/objective feedback, avoids argumentation, rolls with resistance, and supports self-efficacy and optimism for change. Additionally, motivational interviewing is a task that encourages change whilst constructing a working patient-provider relationship.

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Motivational interviewing is a useful tool for behavior modification, but not all public health professionals should be required to use it. This approach, which was developed to treat substance use disorders, is most effective when change is mostly dependent on motivation. It has limitations even if it has advantages including being patient-centered and emphasizing the individual's capacity for change. Direct counseling is not a requirement for all public health positions. There is conflicting evidence on its effectiveness, particularly when it comes to treatment for substance abuse. The method can be difficult to understand and apply properly. It would be preferable to provide the training to those who need it the most rather than requiring everyone to understand the entire procedure. There should be greater instruction on fundamental skills like empathy and attentive listening.

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I think motivational interviewing should be a mandatory skill for all public health professionals because it can have a positive impact on individuals. By using motivational interviewing, patients are encouraged to make positive health decisions without feeling like they are being forced. This is important because it allows the patient to be in control of their treatment and in turn makes them more likely to follow through with treatment. The 4 skills of motivational interviewing (reflective listening, asking open questions, affirming, and summarizing) allow the patient to feel like they are important and promoted collaboration of a treatment plan. Overall, using motivational interviewing as a public health professional should be required as it is a good communication strategy.

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I believe that motivational interviewing should be a technique that all public health professionals should utilize in practice because of its patient-centered approach. As health professionals, we should always be curating our plan of care with the patient and their needs in mind. With motivational interviewing, it allows for the patient to gear their own behaviors into positive and lasting changes. We can only do so much by telling someone to fix their habits. With motivational interviewing, we let the patient take charge and create lasting strategies to better their lives. With a more sit back approach by the health professional, this allows us to process how adaptive the patient is to their new behaviors and encourage ways for them to fine tune to create a healthier lifestyle. However, this shouldn't mean every public health professional should use this technique in practice. Patients come in with different levels of motivation and some might need more assertive guidance and recommendations on how to get back on track. Therefore, it is important to listen as a health professional and see what fits best for your patient prior to utilizing motivational interviewing.

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After reviewing this weeks material and learning the purpose of motivational learning I would say that it should be a mandatory skill for public health professionals because it allows for a great communication tool development between the patient and the professional. It is a technique that helps individuals explore and resolve ambivalence toward behavior change. The main role for public health professionals is serving the community and make positive life changing lifestyles to encourage good habits that enhances our environments in all aspects. By having Motivational Interviewing it can form greater connections that influences behavioral changes that provide more personalized and respectful care. Overall, MI should be a key aspect in Public Health professionalism to enhance communities who may also be underserved and establish trust.

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Motivational interviewing should be a required skill for public health workers. A significant aspect of public health is helping individuals make positive lifestyle changes, such as adopting healthier eating habits, quitting smoking, increasing physical activity, or managing stress effectively. Motivational interviewing is a valuable approach for engaging with individuals who may feel uncertain, overwhelmed, or not yet ready to make a change. I appreciate that it focuses on building trust and engaging in a genuine conversation rather than just offering advice or telling someone what to do. When people feel heard and supported, they are more likely to take steps toward improving their health. Motivational interviewing can be applied in various settings, including clinics, schools, community centers, and one-on-one conversations. Even if some public health jobs don’t involve direct contact with people, I believe that knowing how to communicate respectfully and encouragingly is still important. Overall, I think that motivational interviewing enhances the effectiveness of public health efforts and facilitates individuals in making more lasting, positive changes.

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In my opinion, motivational interviewing is a great skill for all public health professionals because one of the goals of public health is to enhance and improve the health of patients and the community. Although, at first, I had no idea what motivational interviewing was, the readings and videos helped me get the idea that motivational interviewing helps encourage and guide patients to adopt healthier lifestyles. In addition, motivational interviewing is also needed to help build trust between public health professionals and patients and community. However, I do not believe motivational interviewing should be a mandatory skill because not all public health jobs interact with patients making it not as practical and time-consuming to learn. Overall, motivational interviewing is a great skill for public health professionals to have and learn. However, it should not be mandatory.

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Motivational interviewing should be a skill but doesn't necessarily have to be mandatory to have. It's great that health professions have this skill because it can create better communication between the provider and the client which can help with promoting health behavior change. The professional can help in assisting individuals with their goals instead of fully taking over and dealing with goals that might not work out for the client. MI would provide effective approaches and have respect in fostering trust. MI training takes up a lot of time and while some jobs in public health don't require MI, we can use that to direct toward other skills. MI can help clients and providers in most public health perspectives but I believe it depends on what profession it is for MI to be mandatory.

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Motivational interviewing is a very useful skill, and this week’s content highlighted how effective it can be in helping people change behaviors like quitting smoking or losing weight. I like the idea of building rapport and letting individuals create their own plan with a little guidance and encouragement from healthcare professionals. However, I don’t think MI should be mandatory for all public health professionals. Not every role in public health requires MI. There are many positions, such as those in data and research (like epidemiology or public health researchers), that need different skills. MI training takes time and resources, which might be better spent elsewhere depending on the public health position. MI is a valuable skill, but I think it should be something people can choose to learn if it’s relevant to their role. Public health professionals who interact with people regularly would benefit from learning and practicing MI on their own, but it doesn’t need to be something taught as part of a mandatory education system.

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Motivational Interviewing is a valuable skill for public health professionals as it can improve health outcomes and align with the core values of public health. By ensuring that motivational interviewing be a mandatory skill for these professionals, it can encourage individuals to adopt healthier lifestyle habits and changes. MI emphasizes the establishment of trust and collaboration amongst public health professionals and the communities that they work with. MI can also work in addressing health disparities, as it allows public health professionals to work with individuals at various stages of readiness for change. This is important for engaging marginalized or underserved communities.

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Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a valuable skill for public health professionals. It can enhance patient engagement, foster autonomy, and encourage lasting behavior change. Given its effectiveness in addressing health-related behaviors such as smoking cessation, medication adherence, and chronic disease management, MI should be a fundamental skill in public health training, but perhaps its application should remain at the discretion of the physician or healthcare provider. I think that all public health professionals should be equipped with MI training to ensure that they have the necessary tools to use when appropriate, but in some settings, such as emergency medicine or time-sensitive consultations, it may not be as beneficial. Ultimately, MI should be a core competency for public health professionals, but its use should be flexible, aligning with individual patient needs and clinical circumstances.