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Mastering Motivational Interviewing: 2-Day Immersive Training to Engage Clients and Accelerate Behavioral Change

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Motivational Interviewing (MI) is the perfect modality to ignite the hidden motivation within your client.

Whether you want to enhance your communication skills, improve client engagement and retention, efficiently navigate client ambivalence, or learn to embody the spirit of MI, this is the training you need for valuable hands-on experience and step-by-step guidance so you can develop a deep understanding of everything effective motivational interviewing entails.

Charles Jacob, PhD will use his 15+ years of experience to thoroughly prepare you to empower your clients to take ownership and embrace change. Using a variety of demonstrations, role-plays, case studies, and a great sense of humor, Dr. Jacob makes the content more accessible and easy to understand so you can finish feeling confident and enlightened. After watching this immersive workshop, you will be equipped with the tools to:

  • Cultivate a collaborative, non-confrontational environment to work through problems together
  • Develop and maintain an “uncluttered mind” to ensure empathic listening
  • Tailor MI treatment principles for diverse populations and unique needs
  • Offer direct guidance that actually works
  • Roll with resistance – recognize and adapt to ambivalence

Not only will you learn both the basic and advanced principles of MI, you will learn to skillfully apply MI in a variety of settings and scenarios, from individual therapy to group work – these techniques can be applied to just about any practice setting! Make tough therapeutic conversations more productive and client-led, and offer your clients trained empathy so they can make lasting change!

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Here's What You'll Learn

What is Motivational Interviewing (MI)?

  • The history and development of the approach
  • Current empirical research supporting MI
  • The Continuum of Communication Styles
    • Directing
    • Guiding
    • Following

Laying the Groundwork: Change Conversations

  • The science behind change talk
  • The spirit of MI in clinical practice
    • Collaboration/partnership
    • Acceptance
    • Evocation
    • Compassion
    • Demonstration
  • The Righting Reflex: A therapist’s natural tendency
    • The complicated role it plays
    • Why “right” the Righting Reflex?
    • Strategies for recognition and management
    • The basics of the 4 MI processes
    • Engage: The relational foundation
    • Focus: Discover a clear direction
    • Evoke: Develop internal motivation
    • Plan: A commitment to change
  • Discord vs. sustain talk

Core Motivational Interviewing Skills

  • Engage & respond
  • The necessary questions, summarizing & paraphrasing
    • OARS
    • DARN-CAT
    • Elicit change talk with the four categories of targeted questions
    • Continuing the paragraph
    • Reflective listening
    • Examples & role play exercise
  • How empathy principles pertain to MI
    • Best strategies to integrate the spirit of MI
  • Explore values and goals
    • Facilitate discrepancy
  • Utilize the listening sequence
    • Support autonomy
    • The importance of collaboration
  • Why is focus vital for effective MI?
    • Productivity
    • Therapeutic agreements
  • Understand ambivalence
    • The common roadblock to change
      • “Why is my client resistant to change?”
      • Types of resistance
    • The impact ambivalence has on client, progress, and therapeutic alliance
    • Observe, listen and recognize
      • 3 tools to facilitate open dialogue
      • The subtle cues and signs to look for
    • Case study: Social media addiction
  • Avoid these traps!
    • The Expert Trap
    • The Labeling Trap
    • The Question-and-Answer Trap
    • The Focus Trap
    • The Blaming Trap
  • Step-by-step guide to developing change plans with clients
  • A commitment to change – putting it all together
    • Develop a “menu” of change options
    • Anticipate different types of barriers to success
    • The “do’s & don’t’s”
    • Ongoing monitoring

Going a Step Further: Advanced MI Strategies

  • The 3-step “EPE” sequence
    • Client-centered approach
    • The danger of assuming
    • Video demonstration
  • Working with disengaged clients
  • Best focusing strategies
    • The ruler strategy
    • Helpful MI affirmations
    • Example conversations
  • Tactics to move from inaction to action
    • Revisit, revise, adapt
    • Successes vs. failures
    • Roll with resistance
    • Support self-efficacy
  • When confrontation becomes necessary
    • Case study: substance abuse disorder

Bring MI Theory to Life

  • How to maintain the “uncluttered mind”
  • Adapt MI to different populations and unique needs
    • Everything you need to know about tailoring MI interventions
    • Cultural sensitivity and considerations
    • Navigate comorbidities
  • Integration & application: Other modalities and approaches
    • Trauma-informed approach
    • CBT
    • DBT
    • Mindfulness techniques

Limitations of the Research and Potential Risks

  • Scope of practice
    • Ethical considerations

Everything You're Getting

  • More than 12 hours of video content
  • Up to 12.25 CE credits
  • Certificate of completion
  • Handouts and resources

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Charles Jacob, PhD

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Charles Jacob, PhD, is a psychologist, research scientist, and author with over 20 years of clinical experience conducting and overseeing the delivery of mental health services to individuals with severe mood and personality disorders. He is a recognized expert in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Motivational Interviewing (MI) and has delivered workshops, seminars, and courses on these topics at universities and institutions throughout the world. He has held numerous academic positions, and currently works as a research associate for a Washington DC-based consulting firm. He is a past president of the ACA’s Pennsylvania branch and has been a featured interviewee on several episodes of NPR’s The Pulse.

Dr. Jacob completed his PhD in the counseling ed program at the Pennsylvania State University followed by a year of postgraduate training at the Center for Cognitive Therapy at Penn. He was a Fulbright Specialist through the US Department of State, is certified in DBT and is an Evergreen Certifications approved CBT-C consultant.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Charles Jacob maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with U.S. Department of Commerce/Department of Labor and the Pennsylvania State University. He receives royalties as a published author. Charles Jacob receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Charles Jacob is a member of the American Counseling Association.
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Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Product Code:
POS059957
Duration:
12 hours, 19 minutes
Copyright:
Dec 04, 2024
Format:
Audio and Video

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