Who should attend?​

This is an ‘introductory’ course to MI and people who attend normally fall into one of two categories:

1. Professionals who see patients in 1:1 treatment settings, have a significant degree of clinical skill, and wish to become proficient in motivational interviewing.

2. 'Whole teams' (either in inpatient or community settings) seeking to develop a unified level of proficiency in motivational interviewing.

The professional affiliations of people attending this course include: mental health/psychiatric nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, and others working in a variety of settings including: Substance Misuse, Forensic, Adult Mental Health, and Children & Adolescents.

Course subjects:

• Definition and description of Motivational Interviewing.

• The underlying spirit of motivational interviewing.
• Reflective Listening and the client centred OARS skills.
• Identifying the goals the client wants to move towards.
• Exchanging information and providing advice.
• Generating change talk (where the client talks about changing) and responding to it in a way that develops and encourages it.
• Traps to avoid in early stages of therapy.
• Responding to sustain talk (where the client talks about sustaining the way they are right now) in a way that doesn't encourage it.
• Developing hope and confidence.
• Timing, and negotiating a plan of change.
• Strengthening commitment.
• Integrating motivational interviewing with other clinical approaches.
• The link between motivational interviewing (Miller and Rollnick) and the stages of change model (Prochaska et al).
• Developing your motivational interviewing skill and practice after the course.
   

Learning Outcomes:

At the end of this course, the learner will be able to:

• List the purpose, the principles, and the stages of the MI approach.
• Describe how MI fits with the “Stages of Change” theory.
• Apply Motivational Interviewing techniques to move people through the Stages of Change.
• Identify at which stage a person is at in the “Stages of Change” and how to meet them at that stage.
• Describe how to recognize and generate “change talk” in their patients.
• Identify “sustain talk” which may indicate a person’s ambivalence about changing.
• Identify signs that a person is showing readiness to change. 
• Demonstrate how to establish “Decisional Balance” with a person to highlight the pros and cons of changing. 
• Explain why it is important to boost a person’s self-efficacy. 
• Discuss why it is important to strengthen a person’s commitment to their plan for change, and how.

Accreditation

This course is APT-professional accredited. To be APT-professional accredited, means it receives an average rating of over 90% from the mental health professionals who attend it, on each of the two key scales of relevance and presentation-quality. We view this as a very high and relevant level of accreditation. 

CE Credits from the APA

*The Association for Psychological Therapies (APT) is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for Psychologists. The Association for Psychological Therapies (APT) maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Upon completion of this course you can apply for CE certification for an additional cost of $20 USD (for training purchased after 08/14/2023). 

Requirements for completion: To be awarded CE credits for this course 100% attendance is required for live training. For the 'online anytime' (self-paced) version, you are required to complete the course in full and complete a multiple choice exam whereby a pass marks of 85% is required (failure on the third attempt would result in having to go back through the content again). A feedback survey is also required to be completed.

Note: there may be other professional licensing boards that accept CE credits earned from APA-approved sponsors. Because CE regulations vary by state and profession, we recommend that participants check with their state licensing board to inquire whether credits will be accepted for renewal of licensure. We do not have any authority over whether credits earned will be accepted, as this authority rests with the state licensing boards.
 

Bookings:

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