Compassionate Curiosity: Mitigating the Effects of Bias Through Motivational Interviewing

• Main Authors: Paul J. Hershberger (Author), Dean A. Bricker (Author), Angie Castle (Author), Timothy N. Crawford (Author), Stacy R. Flowers (Author), Alexandria L. Goff (Author), Katharine Conway (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Mary Ann Liebert, 2024-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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There is strong evidence that the implicit biases of health care professionals affect the treatment of patients, and that minority and other marginalized patients are disproportionately harmed. Assumptions made about patient knowledge or lack thereof function as judgments that are prone to bias, whi...