Explaining, Motivating And Empowering course for GPs

This session explores some of the problems that young people experience when health professionals attempt to provide them with information, and suggests some ways of improving communication and explanation.

Learning objectives

By the end of this session you will be able to:

• Understand the importance of effective explanations
• Identify barriers to explaining information to young people
• Describe principles of good practice when explaining a new diagnosis to a young person
• Describe principles of good practice when giving information to a young person in order to get their consent before performing a procedure

Young people frequently report difficulties in understanding what they are being told, or feel excluded from conversations that are aimed at their parents. Recognising and acknowledging these difficulties is the first step to improving practice. It is important to be on the same wavelength.