The Essentials of Motivational Interviewing (ONLINE)

The materials covered are applicable to a range of professionals such as psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, counselors, psychiatric nurses, graduate students, case managers, probation/parole officers, and other professionals working with clients in private practice, outpatient mental health centers, hospitals, day reporting centers, halfway and transitional housing programs, prisons, and probation/parole systems.

Join CBT Australia and international author, Raymond Chip Tafrate, Ph.D., for fast-paced, interactive, virtual learning sessions that will provide you with the foundational knowledge and tools to engage challenging cases. The most efficient way to develop new skills is through practice -- learning by doing. Therefore, this workshop highly interactive, incorporating structured learning activities including case examples, audio/video-recorded work samples, small group exercises, and “real”-plays. Class sizes are limited to allow for practice opportunities in a virtual learning environment. The goal is for you to be able to transfer and incorporate newly learned knowledge and skills into your real-world interactions.

Across a broad range of care settings, being able to successfully engage and harness clients’ own motivations for making important life changes is a key ingredient for success. In this session, you will become familiar with the basic theory of motivational interviewing (MI), the skills for fostering an effective therapeutic alliance at the very first meeting, and practice ways of responding effectively to challenging client statements. Emphasis will be placed on fine-tuning your ability to recognize, evoke, and respond to client “change language,” an essential skill for fostering awareness and motivation throughout the treatment process. In this workshop, you will be progressively guided to improve your skills for engaging challenging cases from basic to more advanced levels.

(1) Recognise the essential features of the motivational interviewing communication style and how it differs from other approaches

(2) Become skilled at engaging reluctant clients and forming a powerful and productive alliance at the very first meeting

(3) Practice responding to challenging and provocative client statements in ways that reduce defensiveness and move interactions forward

(4) Understand the reasons why what your clients say, during clinical interactions, matters more than what you say

(5) Be able to recognise, evoke, and reinforce clients’ own reasons for changing risky, problematic, and self-defeating behaviours

(6) Acquire knowledge of additional MI resources to promote skill development for working with challenging cases

Runs across two days.

Course schedule: 9am - 1.30pm on both days (times are AEST Melbourne VIC)

Pre-Reading for: The Essentials of Motivational Interviewing may be purchased at additional fee.

To get the most out of this workshop please review the following three readings prior to your participation. These pre-readings can be found in the textbook/e-book that serves as the text for the course.

- Chapter 2. What is MI and Why Use It? (pp. 10-47). From: Building Motivational Interviewing Skills: A Practitioner Workbook (2nd ed)

- Chapter 9. Recognizing Change and Sustain Talk (pp. 265-300). From: Building Motivational Interviewing Skills: A Practitioner Workbook (2nd ed)

- Chapter 10. Evoking Motivation (pp. 301-358). From: Building Motivational Interviewing Skills: A Practitioner Workbook (2nd ed)

Rosengren, David B. (2017). Building Motivational Interviewing Skills - A Practitioner Workbook (2nd Edition)

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