Integrated Primary Care and Motivational Interviewing
Glenn and Sebastian welcomed Daniel Mullin, PsyD, MPH to discuss Integrated Primary Care and Motivational Interviewing. 
Dan is the Director of the Center for IPC and a Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at UMass Chan Medical School. Dan is a clinician, educator, researcher, and consultant specializing in the integration of behavioral health and primary care services. He maintains a clinical practice embedded in the Barre Family Health Center, a rural family medicine residency practice in Massachusetts. Dan is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers and provides training in Motivational Interviewing to healthcare providers. He is a developer of the Practice Integration Profile, a measure of the integration of behavioral and primary care services.
Episode index:
0:00 – Episode intro
4:30 – Dan’s introduction and early MI story
10:08 – What is helpful about MI in high risk situations?
16:15 – “Your patient begins to teach you…”
21:10 – Making decisions based on thoughts
25:15 – IPC and why MI is a good fit
32:00 – Four principles of IPC: 1) Access; 2) Coordination; 3) Continuity; 4) Comprehensiveness
44:10 – Expanding the scope of practice for medical and behavioral health practitioners
48:35 – How MI offers a common language for integrated primary care
51:51 – Empathy as a way to “do no harm”
57:00 – Dan’s department celebrating its 50 year anniversary
1:01:02 – End of episode
Links and resources:
Center for Integrated Primary Care website – https://www.umassmed.edu/cipc/
For suggestions, questions and to enquire about training in Motivational Interviewing contact Glenn & Sebastian
Email: podcast@glennhinds.com
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