Brief Action Planning (BAP) Community of Practice (COP)

This page is for BAP certificate holders.  It is a record of past webinars for the COP and an archive of BAP COP newsletters.   Our aim is to make this as useful for the COP as possible. If there is anything else that you would like to see here please email us at BAP@centrecmi.ca

Recordings and handouts from previous webinars:

The relationship between doctors and patients is important. When doctors and patients have a strong relationship, patients enjoy their care, follow doctors’ instructions, and have better health. However, we do not know how doctors create strong relationships with their patients. This study aimed to understand how doctors create strong relationships by video-recording appointments between 11 different doctors and a standardized patient. After each appointment, the doctor and the patient rated their relationship strength. Everything the doctors and patient said during their appointments was analyzed by researchers. Initial findings from this thesis suggest that doctors should be cautioned about asking several questions, and giving lots of information. Instead doctors should consider spending more time creating strong relationships with their patients by giving supportive statements. This thesis gives new information on how doctors and patients can create strong relationships to help patients enjoy their care, and have better health.

About Kristy

Kristy Baxter recently completed her MSc from the School of Health and Exercise Sciences at UBC Okanagan under the supervision of Dr. Heather Gainforth, a leader in the field of behaviour change. During the last year Kristy was a Project Coordinator for a campus health behavior change lab. She has experience managing large-scale research teams and projects, coordinating administrative and operational activities, and conducting research. Kristy is now the Coordinator for the Centre of Scholarly Communication at UBC Okanagan.

Through this webinar, you will learn of news from the field provided by Brent Anderson and Brittany Godin.

The Expansion of BAP: A Close Look at British Columbia and Elsewhere

Alice Domes and April Lawrence, CCMI

CCMI’s March 2016 BAP COP webinar.

CCMI’s BAP Coordinator, Alice Domes facilitated a webinar looking at the spread of BAP and developments in research and scope. We dove into what was happening with BAP in the province of British Columbia with comments from Sandy Lundmark (Island health), Christine Nombrado (Fraser Health), Maylene Fong (Vancouver Coastal Health), Marcia Bertschi (northern Health), Christine Westland (First Nations Health Authority). April Lawrence also gave a brief update on the refinement of the “BAP in groups” materials.

Indiana Primary Care Learning Collaborative (INPCLC): BAP Statewide Improvement Initiative

Members of Indiana State Department of Health

Members of the Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) discussed the utilization of Brief Action Planning (BAP) in a statewide quality improvement initiative, The Indiana Primary Care Learning Collaborative (INPCLC). The INPCLC utilized The Chronic Care Model and the Model for Improvement as the foundation for practice transformation work with pilot teams from funded Federally Qualified Health Centers, Community Health Centers, and Rural Health Centers. ISDH has won awards for their efforts and has been asked to speak at statewide conferences about BAP and clinical practice. ISDH shared its successes engaging with hospital systems, Primary Care provider teams when embedding BAP into the clinical visit and electronic health record.

MaryAnne Waters of CCMI discussed the changes to the BAP Guide and Flow Chart as well as answered questions along the way. Please take a few minutes to review this webinar and learn about the recent changes to the Guide and Flow Chart. 

BAP Guide: 

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BAP Flow Chart: 

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Join CCMI to be brought up to date on the work being done to use BAP in groups. Have you ever used BAP in a group setting? Are you considering it? CCMI has developed tools and supports to assist BAP practitioners to use BAP in groups but we need your feedback. Come learn about the current thinking about BAP in groups and give you feedback on the tools being developed. CCMI is also looking for people willing to use BAP in groups.  We will support you in your practice..

 

-If you would like copies of the Handouts from this webinar which are currently in testing with CCMI please contact Denielle Wiebe (denielle.wiebe@centrecmi.ca) and request the BAP in Groups tool set.  Thank you!  

Join us as April shares her experiences and hosts a discussion about adapting the BAP model for a variety of practices and audiences. Please email questions, concerns, or experiences on this topic to denielle.wiebe@centrecmi.ca.

 


During this webinar members of the BAP community met and shared a few anecdotes and lessons learned over the past few months. The discussion is full of great information from throughout Canada and the United States,  we hope that you will enjoy the recorded call. 

 


Sometimes patients who are dealing with longstanding medical or psychological illness lose their sense of power in making change in their own lives, and then initiating B.A.P. can prove challenging. Learn one supportive tool that can help remind the patient that participation is always an option.

 

Enjoy implementing a control worksheet in your practice. If you have further questions, please contact Dr. Rahul Gupta at http://voice2vision.net/

Procrastination is often dismissed or glibly laughed off, but researchers agree there are many serious medical, professional, and financial consequences for procrastinating. Anyone who has struggled with procrastination will attest to the ill effects. Treatment for procrastination is intense, involving methods such as cognitive behavioural therapy and goal setting, and there is great potential for the inclusion of Brief Action Planning. Margie Wiebe shared the Four Stages of Change for tackling procrastination and how she thinks BAP fits into the puzzle.

Download Margie’s slide here:Procrastination Slides

Procrastination stages handout: Procrastination Handout


During this webinar Matthew Beyrouty discusses a study of motivational interviewing as a tool to promote healthy behaviors in children. In the study under discussion, a quality improvement program was implemented by clinical health coaches trained in Brief Action Planning to reduce body mass indexes in overweight and obese pediatric patients in New York City hospitals.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=uBSH4iyZAww

 

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On Feb 18th, Manpreet Khaira, Tish Bernard, Patty Ellis and Pat Bell shared their experiences using BAP in home care. They discuss examples of BAP practice from home care professionals and the challenges and benefits in their communities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR05lBvCsZM&feature=youtu.be

BAP in Island Health Home Care Slides

Brief Action Planning in FN Communities Home Care Slides

Chip and Dan Heath first created a stir with their book “Made to Stick” which described how some changes quickly spread and others languish. In their book “Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard” they summarize decades of behaviour change research with a helpful story of a rider, an elephant and the path. In this webinar from January 29th, Connie Davis shares key insights from the Heath brothers’ work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn3l9Igh7VQ

 

Rider, Path, Elephant, webinar slides