Pediatrics in Practice: Enhancing Professional Development in Smoking Prevention and Cessation Counseling Messages

The Pediatrics in Practice Smoking Prevention and Cessation Web-based Curriculum consists of 3 modules and offers a technology-enabled reflective learning model that promotes learner competency in smoking counseling content, materials, and learning activities based on Moon's theory on reflective practice. In each module, physicians are prompted to consider their experiences in a structured way, frame and reframe problems as they work to modify their actions, engage in activities that provide freedom to explore and clarify understandings, and consciously account for a wider perspective as they frame solutions. A one-of-a kind action plan tool addresses key pressure points for learning and practicing critical smoking prevention and cessation messaging concepts addressing key modules, including: 1) The Health of Adolescent Girls in a Smoking World, 2) Practicing Family-Centered Communication in Smoking Assessment, Advice, and Follow-up, and 3)Effective Partnership Building Strategies to Improve Healthy Behaviors for Girls and Families. In addition to the curriculum, participants will receive information about the No Smoking Room, a web-based health intervention designed for adolescent girls (ages 8-11) using interactive games to promote healthy decision making. Participants will leave the session with a door hanging fixture that provides information about the website to provide to patients that reads, “This is a No Smoking Room” and offers relevant facts and figures for making healthy choices by their patients. This presentation will describe strategies for health professionals interested in improving professional behavior, judgment and decision-making in family-centered, culturally responsive health encounters addressing smoking prevention and cessation information.