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ENGAGING THE DISENGAGED | Innovative Strategies for Promoting Behavior Change in Diabetes
ENGAGING THE DISENGAGED | Innovative Strategies for Promoting Behavior Change in Diabetes
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ENGAGING THE DISENGAGED:
Innovative Strategies for Promoting Behavior Change in Diabetes
with William H. Polonsky, PhD
and Susan Guzman, PhD
Join us live on April 18th, 2026
at Marina Village in San Diego, CA
from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm PST
Course credits through AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™, ACPE, ANCC, and CDR!
Jointly provided by Partners for Advancing Clinical Education and Behavioral Diabetes Institute.
In this course, William H. Polonsky, PhD, and Susan Guzman, PhD, examine the powerful role of psychosocial factors in diabetes self-management. Through innovative strategies, participants will learn how to recognize and assess common barriers to effective self-care and cardiometabolic medication initiation and maintenance, while fostering respectful, stigma-free clinical encounters.
Through a collaborative and person-centered approach, the course emphasizes communication strategies that enhance motivation, build confidence, and reinforce the value of self-management. Participants will develop skills in diabetes-focused action planning, addressing medication hesitancy, and providing ongoing support and resources to sustain behavior change over time. The goal is to help clinicians make diabetes care more doable, meaningful, and effective for people living with diabetes.
Course Objectives:
Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
- Describe the complex role of motivation and psychosocial factors in diabetes self-management.
- Identify the critical factors and their significance in developing stigma-free, neutral, and respectful encounters in clinical settings.
- Perform a comprehensive assessment of the common psychosocial obstacles to effective self-management.
- Perform a comprehensive assessment of the common psychosocial obstacles to cardiometabolic medication initiation and adherence.
- Describe the major strategies for assessing and addressing diabetes distress.
Demonstrate collaborative communication skills aimed towards enhancing patients’ belief that effective diabetes self-management is necessary and worthwhile. - Describe the key strategies for addressing patient reluctance to initiate new cardiometabolic medications and/or maintain medication adherence over time.
- Demonstrate the use of diabetes-focused action planning strategies.
- Describe the key strategies for providing the ongoing support and resources needed to make self-management doable over the long-term.
Target Audience:
This course is designed for healthcare providers who treat patients with diabetes, including endocrinologists, primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses, registered dieticians, pharmacists, certified diabetes educators, and other healthcare providers wishing to collaborate more effectively with their patients to promote more
effective medication-taking (orals, injectables, and emerging options) and diabetes self-management behaviors.
Faculty:
William H. Polonsky, PhD
President, Behavioral Diabetes Institute
Associate Clinical Professor, University of California, San Diego
Susan Guzman, PhD
Director of Clinical Education, Behavioral Diabetes Institute
Date & Time: April 18th, 2026, from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm PST (Lunch provided)
Fee: $200.00
Earn 6.0 CEs - Jointly provided by Partners for Advancing Clinical Education and Behavioral Diabetes Institute
Activity Start and End Date: 4/18/2026 to 4/18/2028
Estimated time to complete the activity: 6 hours
ENGAGING THE DISENGAGED:
Innovative Strategies for Promoting Behavior Change in Diabetes
with William H. Polonsky, PhD
and Susan Guzman, PhD
Join us live on April 18th, 2026
at Marina Village in San Diego, CA
from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm PST
Course credits through AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™, ACPE, ANCC, and CDR!
Jointly provided by Partners for Advancing Clinical Education and Behavioral Diabetes Institute.
In this course, William H. Polonsky, PhD, and Susan Guzman, PhD, examine the powerful role of psychosocial factors in diabetes self-management. Through innovative strategies, participants will learn how to recognize and assess common barriers to effective self-care and cardiometabolic medication initiation and maintenance, while fostering respectful, stigma-free clinical encounters.
Through a collaborative and person-centered approach, the course emphasizes communication strategies that enhance motivation, build confidence, and reinforce the value of self-management. Participants will develop skills in diabetes-focused action planning, addressing medication hesitancy, and providing ongoing support and resources to sustain behavior change over time. The goal is to help clinicians make diabetes care more doable, meaningful, and effective for people living with diabetes.
Course Objectives:
Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
- Describe the complex role of motivation and psychosocial factors in diabetes self-management.
- Identify the critical factors and their significance in developing stigma-free, neutral, and respectful encounters in clinical settings.
- Perform a comprehensive assessment of the common psychosocial obstacles to effective self-management.
- Perform a comprehensive assessment of the common psychosocial obstacles to cardiometabolic medication initiation and adherence.
- Describe the major strategies for assessing and addressing diabetes distress.
Demonstrate collaborative communication skills aimed towards enhancing patients’ belief that effective diabetes self-management is necessary and worthwhile. - Describe the key strategies for addressing patient reluctance to initiate new cardiometabolic medications and/or maintain medication adherence over time.
- Demonstrate the use of diabetes-focused action planning strategies.
- Describe the key strategies for providing the ongoing support and resources needed to make self-management doable over the long-term.
Target Audience:
This course is designed for healthcare providers who treat patients with diabetes, including endocrinologists, primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses, registered dieticians, pharmacists, certified diabetes educators, and other healthcare providers wishing to collaborate more effectively with their patients to promote more
effective medication-taking (orals, injectables, and emerging options) and diabetes self-management behaviors.
Faculty:
William H. Polonsky, PhD
President, Behavioral Diabetes Institute
Associate Clinical Professor, University of California, San Diego
Susan Guzman, PhD
Director of Clinical Education, Behavioral Diabetes Institute
Date & Time: April 18th, 2026, from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm PST (Lunch provided)
Fee: $200.00
Earn 6.0 CEs - Jointly provided by Partners for Advancing Clinical Education and Behavioral Diabetes Institute
Activity Start and End Date: 4/18/2026 to 4/18/2028
Estimated time to complete the activity: 6 hours
