Interactive training designed to introduce and explore how to integrate basic principles and techniques of this evidence based client centered behavior change counseling approach into your client sessions; includes: spirit of MI, change talk, core skills and processes, addressing ambivalence, and diffusing resistance to change. By the end of this
Interactive training designed to introduce and explore how to integrate basic principles and techniques of this evidence based client centered behavior change counseling approach into your client sessions;
includes: spirit of MI, change talk, core skills and processes, addressing ambivalence, and diffusing resistance to change.
By the end of this training participants will be able to:
- State the role of Motivational Interviewing in High Impact Prevention (HIP)
- Provide a basic definition of Motivational Interviewing
- Explain how the Transtheoretical Model and Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs relate to Motivational Interviewing
- Explain the “Spirit” of MI
- Utilize the four core skills of MI in conversation
- Identify basic Motivational Interviewing techniques and principles
- Use basic strategies to explore, amplify, and resolve ambivalence to change.
- Recognize, elicit, and reinforce “Change Talk.”
- Begin the process of applying Motivational Interviewing into their work