Fostering Behaviour Change in Obese Adolescents

 

Learning Aims

1. Gain sufficient knowledge and skills to support adolescents and their families in changing behaviours to increase physical activity to initiate and maintain weight loss.
2.  To develop a set of competencies and skills and apply a variety of psychological techniques to foster patient centred behavioural change in adolescents
3. Demonstrate understanding and empathy of adolescents attitudes towards obesity, to build a rapport and raise the issue of weight loss sensitively
4. To ensure that the adolescent has sufficient information to allow them make an informed decision about the need to increase physical activity through a change in behaviour and awareness of the support options available
5. Be able to clarify your role as a physiotherapist and recognise the boundaries of your scope of practice in an at risk adolescent population