Do you have clients who:
Can’t seem to get started on making positive changes in their lives or begin but get bogged down?
Christopher C. Wagner – Motivational Interviewing: Evidence-Based Skills to Effectively Treat Your Clients
Can’t quite find their direction or stop focusing on how others are to blame for their situation?
Resist nearly everything offered in support of helping them make their lives better?
All of these are common challenges across a range of settings, populations and clinical concerns.
Motivational Interviewing (MI) has emerged over the past two decades as a leading approach for addressing a core clinical concern – motivation.
Incorporating the latest MI developments, this workshop focuses on the key elements that can transform your practice to escape struggling with clients and make real change in people’s lives.
Learn how the MI process works and its application in different clinical situations
Discover why friends and family often contribute to motivational challenges that clients experience
Identify and avoid some traps that well-meaning helpers can fall into
Recognize how to thread the needle and help clients find new ways of thinking, feeling and behaving
Watch motivational interviewing expert, trainer and author, Chris Wagner, Ph.D., for this action packed recording! Learn how to effectively focus clients’ attention on embracing change and successfully anticipating and surmounting obstacles they face as they pursue it. You will leave this course inspired and prepared to help your clients get unstuck and begin creating more fulfilling lives.
Correlate the relational and technical components that allow MI to improve clinical outcomes through a positive and supportive way.
Model how the 4 processes and OARS skills of MI help change happen in clients.
Explore ways to elicit, recognize and respond to change talk in order to improve treatment outcomes.
Practice specific ways to help clients resolve ambivalence, and talk themselves into change.
Develop clinical strategies for working effectively with clients who seem “resistant†to change.
Choose how to effectively use MI to help alleviate symptoms of anxiety, depression and addictive behaviors.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO RECEIVE CHRISTOPHER C. WAGNER – MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING, EVIDENCE-BASED SKILLS TO EFFECTIVELY TREAT YOUR CLIENTS ?
Motivation
What is motivation?
How ambivalence fits
Stages of change
Motivational Interviewing (MI)
Conversations about change
Resolve ambivalence about change
Relational and technical components that make MI work
Research limitations and potential risks of MI in treatment
The 4 Processes of MI
1. Engaging: The Relational Foundation
MI spirit: PACE
Partnership
Acceptance
Compassion
Empathy
Learn to listen reflectively – the backbone of MI
Core MI Skills: OARS
Open-questions
Affirmations
Reflections
Summaries
Clarify values and goals
2. Focusing: The Strategic Direction
Find a focus
Match your agenda to the client’s concerns
Exchange information
3. Evoking: Preparation for Change
Importance of change talk – a key ingredient of MI
Listen for and respond to change talk
Listen for specific kinds of change talk:
DARN (preparatory change talk)
CATS (mobilizing change talk)
Elicit more and elaborate on change talk
Respond to “resistance†in clients
Develop discrepancy
Evoke hope and confidence
4. Planning: The Bridge to Change
How and when to plan
Call on the CATS
Summarize and then ask a key question
Putting it All Together
Test skills by coding a MI video in action
MI and Clinical Problems
Depression and Anxiety
Enhance treatment engagement
Potentiate Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Suicidal clients
Addictive Behaviors
Substance use
Other addictive/compulsive behaviors
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