Effecting Change Through the Use of Motivational Interviewing: Interactive Training for Skill Development
Overview
Motivational interviewing (MI), a treatment approach developed by William Miller, has been well established as an effective way to promote behavior change in individuals across a range of health settings, including improving engagement and retention. This face-to-face training requires previous training and experience using motivational interviewing techniques in clinical practice. This experiential MI Skill Development training will focus on ways to help clients engage in change talk in order to make commitments for behavioral changes based on collaborative goal identification. It will provide in-depth instruction, practice, and feedback on fostering and utilizing change talk to increase client motivation, and movement toward change across all health, mental health, and substance use conditions. Ample time will be devoted to case examples and applications as well as group practice sessions to enable training participants to gain the skills necessary to engage their clients/patients and work to enhance their motivation for change. Recorded on March 10, 2021.
Please note that CEs are only available by attending the live virtual training, not the anytime session.
Learning objectives
- Recognize change talk and sustain talk in examples of client statements
- Describe at least two (2) ways to respond to change talk in a way that strengthens it
- List and describe at least three (3) strategies to "roll with resistance" or reduce discord
- Demonstrate, through participation in interactive activities, skills to help clients develop hope and confidence for change
- Describe the importance of active listening before prematurely problem-solving solutions for the client
- Explain how to exchange information, provide advice, or provide feedback within an MI style
- Discuss how to utilize the “Readiness Ruler” to evaluate a client’s level of importance, confidence, and readiness for change
- Demonstrate, through case examples, the use of questions and reflections to strengthen a client’s commitment for change
