Vaccinations and Motivational Interviewing (S1:E12)

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