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Motivational Interviewing: The Language of Change with Dr. Stephen Rollnick

Program Information

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.

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

Copyright : 05/12/2013