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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!

Program Information

Target Audience

Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Clinical Nurse Specialists

Objectives

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

Outline

Methods of Assessment

Identifying Patient Concerns
Working as the Collaborator, Not the Expert

Know your Role with Behavior Change

The 80/20 Talking Rule
Stages of Change
Behavior Change Strategies
SMART Goals
Motivational Interviewing Techniques

Helpful Tools

Learning Styles
Psycho-Social Considerations
Environment & Economic Considerations
Cultural Competency

Copyright : 04/28/2018

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!)

Program Information

Objectives

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

Outline

Motivational Interviewing Essentials

Core Skills and Principles
How therapists unintentionally increase resistance
Latest Research

Assess Readiness for Change

Brief Review Stages of Change model (Prochaska & Diclemente’s model)
The role of importance and confidence
Types of change talk found in specific stages of change
Tips to avoid the “righting reflex” and resisting the urge to fix

MI Fundamental Process to Cultivate Change

Engaging for a strong working alliance
- Pitfalls of engagement
- Overcoming disengagement
Focusing for Shared Goal Setting
- Sources of Focus
- Identifying “Change Targets”
- “Zooming in” for Goal Setting
Evoking for Change Talk
- Identifying Change Talk vs. Sustain Talk (aka, client excuses)
- Strengthening Change Talk
- Reflective responses to reduce client excuses
Case example: Carl, 67 year-old, with chronic health conditions (video vignette)
Planning for the “How” of Change
- How and when to plan
- Building the roadmap to change
- Goal development

Importance Scales—Increase conviction to change for clients

Develop discrepancy
- Why discrepancy motivates clients
- When to develop discrepancy to improve outcomes
- Examples of what to say to develop discrepancy
- Discrepancy developing strategies:
  - Exchanging information
  - Provide feedback
  - Ask about other people’s concerns
  - Supporting autonomy
Case example: Darryl, 16 year-old, youth involved in juvenile justice system

Confidence Scales—Increase self-efficacy for clients

Build hope and confidence
- How hope and confidence drive change and motivation
- Clinical activities that cultivate hope and confidence
- 9 strategies to build genuine client confidence
- How to reinforce progress and find inspiration to strengthen hope
Case example: Julie, 55 year-old, divorced female with anxiety and depression
Special Topics
- Reduce no shows & empower mandated clients
- How to work with pre-contemplation clients
- Limitations of the research and potential risks

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Addiction Counselors
Therapists
Physicians
Marriage and Family Therapists
Occupational Therapists
Nurses
Health Coaches
Probation/Parole Officers
Other behavioral health professionals

Copyright : 12/15/2022

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!

Program Information

Objectives

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

Outline

Integrating MI Processes into Group Therapy

Facilitating in an MI style
Therapeutic group fractors
What is “motivational content”?
Four foundational processes of MI in groups
Closed and open group considerations
Create group guidelines
Preventing unhelpful topic shifting

Concrete Skills for MI Groups

Basic to advanced conversation shaping
Blending MI with Tuckman’s Stages of Group Development
Planning, evoking, focusing, engaging
Invitations vs. expectations
Elicit group discussion & pair work

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Addiction Counselors
Therapists
Physicians
Marriage and Family Therapists
Occupational Therapists
Nurses
Health Coaches
Probation/Parole Officers
Other behavioral health professionals
Other Healthcare Professionals
Other Rehab Professionals

Copyright : 09/22/2022

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 instills hope for change

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

Program Information

Objectives

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

Outline

Clinical skills That Matter Across All Modalities

What skills are essential?
What we’ve learned across all modalities
8 Must-do skills
Carl Rogers & MI
How effective implementation looks
More than just “exchanging information”
Instilling hope

Blending CBT & MI

How CBT supports MI
Identifying the common factors
Know when to use CBT vs MI, or both
Explore Stages of Change to activate behavior
2 Case Examples

Blending DBT & MI

Identifying common factors
Incorporating metaphor
Using MI to get client homework done
“Guiding” style

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Addiction Counselors
Therapists
Physicians
Marriage and Family Therapists
Occupational Therapists
Nurses
Health Coaches
Probation/Parole Officers
Other behavioral health professionals
Other Healthcare Professionals
Other Rehab Professionals

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!

Program Information

Objectives

Justify the importance of using person-centered strategies with ASD patients.
Utilize MI to integrate understanding of pragmatic language skills, motivation and depressive symptoms.
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.

Outline

Motivational Interviewing (MI) and ASD: What the Research Says
- Matching developmental freedom and personal autonomy: Activity
- Recommendations for balancing safety and autonomy
- Person-centered strategies and their impact on patients with ASD
- Feedback Informed Treatment (FIT) and MI
MI Techniques for Improving Pragmatic Language
- Exercise on social pragmatics and depression (Thomas Gordon’s process)
- Case study: Social pragmatics and meaning making
- Social pragmatics and its effect on self-esteem and motivation
- Help clients navigate ambiguity
- Decreasing “black” and “white” thinking patterns
- Increasing clients ability to identify reasons for change and build motivation
- Responding to change talk in HFA
- Hacks for social pragmatics
MI Strategies for Treating Anxiety and Depression
- Recognize “black” and “white” thinking patterns
- Open-ended questions, Affirmations, Reflections and Summaries (OARS)
- Cultivate change talk for motivation: Case example
- OARS real play activity
- Flipping the righting reflex demonstration
- Evoking confidence for change in HFA: Exercise
- Menu of Options – using closed-ended questions
- MI risk and limitations in ASD population

Target Audience

Addiction Professionals
Case Managers
Dieticians
Licensed Clinical/Mental Health Counselors
Marriage & Family Therapists
Nurses
Nursing Home/Assisted Living Administrators
Occupational Therapists
Occupational Therapy Assistants
Physical Therapists
Psychologists
School Administrators
Social Workers
Speech-Language Pathologists
Teachers/School-Based Personnel

Motivational Interviewing in Diabetes & Chronic Conditions: An Evidence-Based Approach to Patient Behavior Change. Live demonstrations with Stephen Rollnick, PhD

Have you found yourself frustrated by your patient's lack of adherance, and wonder how you are going to get through to them? Do you feel like a broken record when you talk to your patients about their self-distructive habits?

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is more than just a buzzword. It is an evidenced-based approach that will take the lecturing and negotiating out of the conversation with your patients, and provide you with effective strategies that will increase the behavior change your clients need. It's a proven technique that can improve patient outcomes and quality in an organization, increase success and reduce re-admission.

Stephen Rollnick, PhD, is the world's foremost expert and co-founder of motivational interviewing (MI), a method for helping people to change their behavior. He has worked for 25+ years on MI for modifiable risk factors in healthcare, as a practitioner, trainer and author of books on this subject..

Dr. Rollnick has designed this recording specifically for the challenges that healthcare providors face. Learn an easier approach that will take the frustration out of your conversations regarding diabetes control, medication adherence, clinic attendance, diet adherence, physical activity, and associated patient behaviors.

Self-management is a necessity in diabetes (Types I & II) and other chronic diseases. You can give information, urge patient to change, even beg them to, but only they can make the changes. The Motivational Interviewing techniques presented in this recording will help both you and your patients move past just talking about change, into a state of real behavior change and adherance.

Program Information

Objectives

Describe what typically happens in consultations about lifestyle change and medication use.
Explain why and how motivational interviewing can fit into everyday practice.
Develop several of the skills involved and the changes you can make in practice.

Outline

Live demonstration, debrief and discussion will be used to address these questions:

Why Motivational Interviewing (MI)?

Why is this approach to behavior change useful in teaching “difficult” patients on lifestyle change?
What usually happens in brief consultations about lifestyle change and medication use? The “Righting Reflex” and other challenges.
Helping patients to harness their own motivation for change.
The evidence base for MI

What does it look like in a healthcare practice?

Getting alongside patients as they make decisions: the “spirit of MI”.
Rapid engagement & a 20% rule.
A new framework for practice: engage, focus, evoke and plan.
Addressing obesity, smoking cessation, alcohol/drug abuse, exercise and uncontrolled diabetes.

Getting yourself into gear

Slowing your pace down
Adjusting your attitude and style
The skills involved

Target Audience

Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Case Managers, Addiction Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, and other Mental Health Professionals