Vaccinations and Motivational Interviewing (S1:E12 Rebroadcast)

In this episode, Sean O'Leary, MD, discusses vaccine safety and hesitancy from parents. He also suggests motivational interviewing techniques to use when talking with your patients and families. Dr. O'Leary is a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Children's Colorado and associate professor pediatrics and infectious diseases at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

In this episode:

• How to help families identify the good information from misinformation regarding vaccines
• The prevalence of vaccine resistance
• Effectively and efficiently delivering vaccines information to parents
• Using motivational interviewing techniques when talking with parents about vaccines
• How to pivot the conversation when a parent is resistant to a care plan
• Why asking permission is a key component to motivational interviewing
• Understanding the differences between a recommended and alternate vaccine schedule
• Techniques for communicating relative risks about vaccines
• Working with parents who are vaccine resistant
• Vaccines that receive the most resistance and hesitancy