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Digital Seminar

Motivational Interviewing: Evidence-Based Interventions to Improve Client Engagement and Accelerate Behavioral Change

Faculty:
Christopher Wagner, PhD
Duration:
6 Hours 30 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Mar 17, 2022
Product Code:
POS054710
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
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Description

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!

CPD

CPD

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.

Handouts

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PDF Manual - Motivational Interviewing: Evidence-Based Interventions to Improve Client Engagement and Accelerate Behavioral Change (6.6 MB) 69 Pages Available after Purchase
PDF Manual - Motivational Interviewing: Evidence-Based Interventions to Improve Client Engagement and Accelerate Behavioral Change - French (6.6 MB) 69 Pages Available after Purchase
PDF Manual - Motivational Interviewing: Evidence-Based Interventions to Improve Client Engagement and Accelerate Behavioral Change - Italian (6.6 MB) 69 Pages Available after Purchase

Faculty

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Virginia Commonwealth University

Objectives

  1. Integrate person-centred and strategic components to improve clinical outcomes using Motivational Interviewing (MI) in a positive and supportive way.
  2. Evaluate how the four processes and OARS skills of MI help reduce client ambivalence and empower change.
  3. Employ ways to elicit, recognize and respond to “change talk” to improve treatment outcomes.
  4. Develop clinical strategies for working effectively with clients who are resistant to change.
  5. Determine ways that MI can enhance the effectiveness of other existing therapeutic approaches.
  6. Choose how to effectively use MI to help alleviate symptoms of anxiety, depression and addictive behaviours.

Outline

Motivational Puzzles: Why People Don’t Do What’s Best for Themselves

  • Redefine motivation as an interactive state
  • Utilize three components of change
  • Desire for and fear of change in therapy
  • Ambivalence across the stages of change
  • How ambivalence becomes resistance
  • The spirit of MI

Core MI Processes to Cultivate Change

  • Engaging: The Relational Foundation
    • Partnership – the core relationship
    • “Dancing” vs. “wrestling”
    • Avoid the “expert” role
    • Foster client autonomy
    • The core skills of MI
  • Focusing: The Strategic Decision
    • Match your agenda to the client’s goals & priorities
    • Help clients develop a direction for change
    • Guiding vs. directing or following
    • Help clients find freedom
    • How to prioritize multiple presenting issues & concerns
  • Evoking: Preparation for Change
    • The key ingredient of MI
    • Preparatory vs. mobilizing change talk
    • Elicit importance, confidence & readiness for change
    • Acceptance & empathy as tools for eliciting change talk
    • Help clients align values and behaviour
    • Aid clients in leveraging strengths
    • Build momentum toward change
  • Planning: Commitment to Change
    • How and when to plan
    • Information exchange to aid in plan development
    • The “Dos” and “Don’ts” of giving advice

MI Tools for Anxiety: Inspire Clients to Engage in Previously Avoided Behaviours

  • MI strategies to strengthen collaboration
  • How to challenge “the way I’ve always done it” thinking
  • Interventions to break familiar, anxiety-inducing patterns
  • Combine MI with cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)

MI & Depression: Boost Your Clients’ Resilience, Self-Worth & Self-Efficacy

  • Overcoming ambivalence in depression
  • Friends & family: Help clients learn to filter well-intentioned advice
  • Accept, acknowledge, empathize
  • Help clients reframe therapeutic tasks
  • MI & crisis intervention

Substance Use and Addictive Behaviours: MI Strategies to Catalyze Change and Reach Recovery Goals

  • What makes life worth living?
  • Avoid pushback: Emphasizing choice
  • Substance use
  • Other addictive/compulsive behaviours
  • Using MI in conjunction with the 12 steps

Research Limitations and Potential Risks

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Case Managers
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Therapists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Occupational Therapists
  • Occupational Therapy Assistants
  • Nurses
  • Physicians
  • Probation/Parole Officers
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

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