Establish a collaborative and trusting relationship
We all want and try to successfully engage our patients and their families. Effort invested in achieving active engagement show result in a more successful consultation. Approaches that might be used to successful engage are:
- a partnership approach, respecting the patient’s autonomy as it is the young person and family who ultimately decide what they can and will do in the context of their lives.
- accepting, although not necessary approving, current behaviour.
- being compassionate and asking the adolescent what they want to talk about.
Use the RULE approach
