Motivational Interviewing: Module 1

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Module 1 Outline:

• Foundations of Motivational Interviewing
   
• Origins of Motivational Interviewing

What you’ll see in this section is around 40 minutes on the origins of MI, and it includes my personal account of a trauma I experienced as a young nurse, and meeting up with William Miller.

• Commentary from the Leading MI Experts

This section features three brief clips from a conversation between myself, Dr William R. Miller, the co-founder of MI with me, and Dr Terry Moyers, a skilled MI practitioner and world leader in the research effort to understand how and why MI works. Both of them are based in Albuquerque, NM. 

 

 

COMPLETE COURSE OUTLINE:

Motivational Interviewing

• The 4-process framework
• Compassion
• MI in goal setting and change planning
• From “behavior change” to change

Behavior Change and Motivational Interviewing

• Ambivalence
• The principles of MI are universal

Integrating Motivational Interviewing in Your Practice

• MI complementing any therapeutic orientation
• The language you and the client use makes a big difference!
• Addressing motivational problems in:
• Health behavior changes
• Medication adherence
• Addictions and mental health disorders

The Traps that Prevent Change

• Observe the traps
• Apply MI skills to avoid traps
• The “Righting Reflex”

Learning Motivational Interviewing

• The spirit
• Principles
• Definition
• Goal
• Change talk & sustain talk
• Skills

Core Skills of Motivational Interviewing

• Listening-MI Style
• The focus on change talk
• Motivational Interviewing and communication styles

Motivational Interviewing in action – Demonstration and Discussion

• Engaging
• Focusing
• Evoking
• Planning
• Guiding and following
• What MI does NOT look like

Challenges and Opportunities in Motivational Interviewing

• Resistance and discord
• Exploring values
• Shortage of time
• The evidence base
• Learning and implementing MI

 

COMPLETE COURSE OBJECTIVES:

• • Describe the origins, foundations, and spirit of Motivational Interviewing.

  • Develop the core skills of Motivational Interviewing.

  • Apply the 4-Process Framework of Motivational Interviewing to your clinical practice.

  • Model the style underlying motivational interviewing to impact client change.

  • Construct questions designed to explore client ambivalence about change.

  • Detect the limitations of the righting reflex and other traps to avoid when promoting change.

  • Articulate ambivalence and how best to respond to it.

  • Evaluate and correlate change language and how listening promotes change.

  • Employ Motivational Interviewing to explore client values, create change, and save time.

  • Integrate Motivational Interviewing into treatment strategies.

  • Connect how motivational interviewing is linked to efforts to promote change in a variety of healthcare settings.