Motivational Interviewing is an exciting Evidence-Based Practice that allows one to effectively increase people's desire to make healthy behavioral changes. This training covers the theory used to develop Motivational Interviewing, techniques for assessing motivation in order to use the most impactful intervention strategies, and strategies for dealing with resistance. Throughout the training attendees will have opportunity to practice and get feedback on the clinical skills being taught.
Learning outcomes:
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Participants will
- Gain appreciation for the fact that the only way to facilitate sustainable change is by strengthening the person’s own, internal motivation for commitment and change
- Recognize how the philosophy and spirit of MI create the atmosphere conducive to change
- Juxtapose MI philosophy with the traditional, confrontation-based, ineffective approaches to facilitating behavior change
- Accept ambivalence as an expected component of behavior change
- Learn how to assess a person’s readiness to change using the transtheoretical model of behavior change, and how to meet them where they are by using matching, effective motivating approaches for each of the stages of the model
- Apply the transtheoretical model of behavior change to assess their own level of readiness and that of their co-participant
- Have the opportunity to review and practice each of the microskills of MI: reflections, open-ended questions, summaries, affirmations, and information sharing
- Learn how to identify and reinforce change talk, the strongest predictor of the person initiating behavior changes
- Learn how to view resistance as a function of the environment and handle it effectively.
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Target audience:
This course is beneficial for any human services practitioner. Theinformation and competencies advanced through this training are also applicablein everyone’s life outside of work.
Class length:
7 hours, which can be dividing into two 3.5-hour sessions when taught in a virtual setting
