Event Location
Online
This training is designed for health and mental health professionals. Topics covered during the 10 hours/6 weeks of training will include:
- Identify and recognize key components of Motivational Interviewing (MI)
- Use person-centered “OARS” skills to engage clients in treatment
- Negotiate clear goals (focus) of treatment
- Evoke clients’ own motivations for change, using questions, reflections, and summaries selectively to facilitate change
- Form reflective listening responses as statements rather than questions
- Recognize aspects of client speech that indicate whether a session is headed in the right (or wrong) direction
- Use MI skills and strategies to increase client confidence
- Avoid responses such as persuasion that elicit client resistance
- Explain how different strategies are appropriate when a clinician’s goal is to remain neutral
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