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Are you frustrated with having the same client sessions over and over? Perhaps you’re watching your clients struggle with addiction, anxiety, or other mental health challenges, and your attempts to empower them to make positive changes in their lives feel like going into battle. You feel like you’re working harder than your client, and you feel like they resist everything.
You can make a significant, positive impact on your clients’ lives with Motivational Interviewing.
Motivational interviewing (MI) has emerged over the past three decades as a leading approach for addressing a core clinical concern – motivation. When mastered, this evidence-based approach is highly effective in motivating positive change.
Better still, motivational interviewing can be used regardless of diagnosis and in conjunction with other treatment approaches.
Chris Wagner, Ph.D., motivational interviewing trainer and author, will teach you the skills you need to know to successfully help these clients. You’ll learn how the MI process works, how to help your clients resolve ambivalence about change, and how to effectively respond to resistance in clients. You’ll leave this seminar confident and with the strategies you need to treat your clients with depression, anxiety disorders, addictive behaviours and other clinical issues.
Escape the pattern of struggling with clients, and instead evoke your clients’ own motivation to change!
PESI Australia, in collaboration with PESI in the USA, offers quality online continuing professional development events from the leaders in the field at a standard recognized by professional associations including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, alcohol and drug professionals, counselling and psychotherapy. On completion of the training, a Professional Development Certificate is issued after the individual has answered and submitted a quiz and course evaluation. This program is worth 6.5 hours CPD for points calculation by your association.
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual - Motivational Interviewing: Evidence-Based Interventions to Improve Client Engagement and Accelerate Behavioral Change (6.6 MB) | 69 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Motivational Interviewing: Evidence-Based Interventions to Improve Client Engagement and Accelerate Behavioral Change - French (6.6 MB) | 69 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Motivational Interviewing: Evidence-Based Interventions to Improve Client Engagement and Accelerate Behavioral Change - Italian (6.6 MB) | 69 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Christopher C. Wagner, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist in Virginia and faculty member at Virginia Commonwealth University, with appointments in Rehabilitation Counseling, Psychology and Psychiatry. He began practicing MI in the 1990s and became a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) in 1998. From 2000-2008, he served in leadership positions in MINT, twice as chair of the network, and he has led three of their international training-of-trainers events. He was re-elected to the MINT board of directors in 2018.
Dr. Wagner has offered hundreds of MI trainings in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia/Oceania. In addition to focusing on clinical and theoretical advances in individual MI, he has also developed group applications of MI and is an author of the official Guilford series book on that topic, co-written with long-time colleague Karen Ingersoll. He has worked with individuals with a variety of health, mental health, addiction and employment challenges across outpatient, inpatient, residential and corrections settings. Dr. Wagner’s trainings are highly engaging and focused on helping participants incorporate MI skills and strategies into their current styles of practice.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Christopher Wagner has an employment relationship with Virginia Commonwealth University. He receives royalties as a published author. Christopher Wagner receives a speaking honorarium, recording royalties and book royalties. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Christopher Wagner is a member of the American Counseling Association, the American Group Psychotherapy Association, and the American Psychological Association.
Motivational Puzzles: Why People Don’t Do What’s Best for Themselves
Core MI Processes to Cultivate Change
MI Tools for Anxiety: Inspire Clients to Engage in Previously Avoided Behaviours
MI & Depression: Boost Your Clients’ Resilience, Self-Worth & Self-Efficacy
Substance Use and Addictive Behaviours: MI Strategies to Catalyze Change and Reach Recovery Goals
Research Limitations and Potential Risks
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