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Implementing Motivational Interviewing

Motivational Interviewing is widely used and it is an efficient way to get your patients to increase their motivation to change. But, knowing how and when to implement the techniques isn’t an easy skill to master. In this program, Marlisa Brown, will demonstrate different strategies by reviewing her own successful techniques. These insightful and practical tips will increase your confidence and enhance your motivational interviewing skills. Don’t miss this opportunity to improve the care you provide; your patients will thank you!

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Objectives

  1. Assess a patient’s readiness to change.
  2. Select the appropriate response based on motivational interviewing techniques.
  3. Evaluate the patient’s emotional state and utilize appropriate counseling skills.
  4. Adapt a more individualized approach to patient care.

Copyright : 28/04/2018

Motivational Interviewing: Evidence-based treatment for depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and more

Working with clients who resist change is exhausting and time consuming…

…And you may be increasing client resistance without even knowing it.

You spend valuable session time chipping away at the resistance to change. Then in your “off” time, you spend time thinking about why they can’t change or where you might be missing the mark in your treatment approach and therapeutic relationship.

Motivational Interviewing is an effective evidence-based treatment and it’s not just for substance abuse.

Motivational Interviewing can provide you with the approach you need to ease your effort as a clinician and motivate clients to want to change.

In this 1-day seminar with Motivational Interviewing expert Angie Wood, you will walk away with:

  • Tools to increase client motivation with depression, anxiety, substance abuse and trauma.
  • Fewer no shows, better adherence to your treatments and clients invested in the therapeutic process.
  • Powerful interventions to ease your effort as a therapist!

Angela Wood, PhD, has been a therapist for over 20 years and led hundreds of clinicians in learning Motivational Interviewing. The author of The Motivational Interviewing Workbook: Exercises to Decide What you Want and How to Get There, Angie has helped thousands of clients better understand their fear of change and create a safe path to actionable change behaviors.

In this one day seminar, Angela will share with you the most common reasons people resist change and the clinical tools to help you experience more ease as a clinician while the client experiences faster symptom relief and accomplished goals in therapy.

Packed with proven Motivational Interviewing techniques, visual tools, case studies, and experiential exercises, you will be able to feel excited as you help the client becomes the initiator of their change (instead of you!)

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Objectives

  1. Apply strategies to improve clinical outcomes with clients who are resistant to change.
  2. Assess barriers to eliciting commitment to change.
  3. Employ strategies to improve responses to sustain talk.
  4. Implement techniques to help clients build importance for change.
  5. Employ ways to strengthen hope and reinforce client efforts.
  6. Apply methods to promote clients’ confidence to change.

Copyright : 15/12/2022

Motivational Interviewing for Group Therapy: Clinical Skills that Drive Collaboration and Change

It’s easy for a therapist to feel overpowered in a group therapy.

Clients may redirect conversation away from the target or they might not talk at all…

And sometimes, you even have clients who get into arguments with one another.

Luckily for you, motivational interviewing skills can be a highly-effective for group therapy.

Join Ali Hall and Kristin Dempsey for a training that takes simple motivational interviewing skills and gives you training to use them in group settings. Gain motivational interviewing skills that will help you keep groups on topic, productive, collaborative, cohesive and change generating.

You’ll learn:

  • How to keep conversation healthy, even with conflicting ideas
  • How to integrate the principles on MI into each stage of group development
  • Basic to advanced conversation shaping to keep clients focused & on topic

Empower yourself to lead great therapy groups!

Never miss a beat, even with the most challenging groups!

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Objectives

  1. Appraise three ways the group therapeutic factors connect to the “spirit” of MI.
  2. Theorize how the process of MI corresponds to Tuckman’s stages of group development.

Copyright : 22/09/2022

Integrate Motivational Interviewing with CBT & DBT: Blend Popular Approaches for Comprehensive Treatment

Dry therapy doesn’t engage clients.

Especially when you’re working with clients that present with multiple problems at once…

You need to meet them where they’re at and have training skills and techniques to move them forward.

Give your therapy the boost it needs – gain skills to integrate CBT and DBT into the powerful approach of Motivational Interviewing.

Join Kristin Dempsey and Ali Hall and learn concrete skills you can use tomorrow in session to get more client engagement, less resistance, greater therapy compliancy and enhanced outcomes. You’ll learn how to…

  • Know when to use CBT or MI or both
  • Use DBT as a guiding style for therapy
  • Apply 8 clinical skills for change across all modalities
  • Engage clients in conversation that instils hope for change

Plus, you’ll get real-world case studies to help you apply concepts and strategies!

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Objectives

  1. Implement MI techniques in such a way to support other treatment modalities, specifically DBT and CBT.
  2. Theorize common factors between Motivational Interviewing, DBT and CBT.
  3. Practice transdiagnostic skills of “exchanging information,” to enhance therapy across any modality used.

Copyright : 22/09/2022

Motivational Interviewing for High-Functioning Autism in Adulthood: An Insider’s Perspective

Join autism expert Sean Inderbitzen, APSW, MINT, as he teaches you—from an insider’s perspective— how to use Motivational Interviewing techniques (MI) with your adult clients on the autism spectrum.

In this rare opportunity, Sean will guide you through MI techniques that will help your clients improve: 

  • Anxiety and depression 
  • Social pragmatics 
  • Communication 
  • Self-esteem  
  • Emotion identification 
  • Intrinsic motivation 
  • “Black” and “white” thinking 
  • Navigating ambiguity 
  • Find what changes to pursue  
  • Resistance to change 

Learning effective techniques from a clinician on the spectrum will give you the essential skills and perspective you need to help your clients overcome the treatment obstacles that can impede the therapy they desperately need.

Stop feeling frustrated, ineffective and perpetually stuck at square one in therapy—PURCHASE TODAY! 

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Objectives

  1. Justify the importance of using person-centred strategies with ASD patients.
  2. Utilize MI to integrate understanding of pragmatic language skills, motivation and depressive symptoms.
  3. Employ MI strategies such as flipping the righting reflex, menu of options type questions and OARS to treat anxiety and depression in adults with HFA.

Copyright : 23/04/2021