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Trauma-Informed Motivational Interviewing

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Whether you’re in the middle of deep emotional processing or having your first session…

Every step of your care should be trauma-informed.

However, many of us have learned certain approaches, such as Motivational Interviewing, without learning how to integrate trauma-informed care.

Here’s your opportunity to learn the skills to integrate the sensitivity of trauma-informed care with the life-changing power of Motivational Interviewing.

Join international trainers Ali Hall and Kristin Dempsey for a cutting-edge, trauma-informed motivational interviewing course that will enhance your therapy, at any level. In this unique training, you’ll learn techniques to:

  • Use a client-driven approach, empowering clients to do their own trauma processing
  • Support client’s sense of responsibility so they can start taking action in their life
  • Expand your perspective and assessment beyond just looking at symptoms
  • Apply concepts from research on neuroscience and nervous system arousal to help clients regulate

Transform your client’s lives by helping them put their trauma to rest and finding a path forward!

Here's What You'll Learn

Module One: Motivational Interviewing Foundations
  • Ingredients
    • Four Processes
    • Microskills (common therapeutic factors) 
    • Exchanging Information
    • Language Types
    • Focus on change target
    • Elicitation and elaboration of change talk
  • The Spirit of MI
    • Using PACE
    • How to create partnership
    • What “acceptance” sounds like
    • How to use “compassionate detachment”
    • OARS, DARN CAT & change talk
  • Exercises & Techniques for Action
    • Sample questions to elicit & strengthen motivation
    • Personal reflection
    • Common responses to MI    
    • Counter client ambivalence 
    • How to use a strengths-based lens
Module Two: Trauma-Informed Motivational Interviewing
  • Why use a Trauma-Informed Approach?
    • The link between MI & Trauma care
    • What diagnosis misses
    • Bring the past into the present
    • Trauma basics – types, examples, ACES
    • What does a symptom really mean?
    • PTSD & the brain
  • Trauma-Informed MI: How it Works
    • A “person-driven” approach
    • Build client autonomy and collaboration with client
    • The window of tolerance & optimal arousal for change
    • Reframe questions to avoid pathologizing client experience
    • Components of a trauma-informed care system
  • Trauma-Informed MI Skills in Action
    • Righting Reflex and Roadblocks to Listening
    • Crosswalk between TI approach and MI
    • Spot clients “out of control” feelings
    • Building a safe environment 
    • Create self-advocacy & empowerment
    • Cultivate Post-traumatic growth
Module 3: Engaging/Responding
  • Engage Your Trauma Clients More
    • Honor the client’s trauma reality
    • Create a trauma-narrative with open-ended questions
    • Use affirmations strengthen abilities & internal resources
    • Reduce trauma-induced confusion & overwhelm
    • Give clients choice & access to their own ideas for change – with client permission
  • MI Techniques: Mirco Skills, Big Changes
    • Provide-Elicit-Provide
    • The communication process
    • The reflective listening process
    • Open-ended questions with traumatized clients
    • Sharing Information & Advising - What’s your role in legal advice?
Module 4: Co-Occurring Disorders & Crisis Response
  • The Nature of Co-Occurring Disorders 
    • The expectation, not the exception
    • When it’s complex, keep it simple
    • 12 Steps to assessment
    • 10 Guidelines for developing a therapeutic alliance with COD folks
    • What you can do to reduce treatment barriers
    • Discord and repair conversations
    • Specific skills for Depression, Anxiety, Suicidal Ideation
    • Practice dialogues
  • De-escalating Suicidal Clients with MI
    • Moving from Focusing to Engaging
    • Evoking strategies – You are Medicine
    • Putting change talk into Safety Planning
    • SHORES – Protective factors
    • Examples of MI used in crisis situations: Self-harming adolescents and individual impacted by natural disasters
Module 5: Working with Mandated Clients
  • The role for MI
  • Create a shared agenda
  • Support autonomy and reduce discord
  • The four processes of MI applied
  • Effective responses with mandated clients
  • Demonstration: Getting on the same team & repairing relationship

Everything You're Getting

  • More than 8 hours of video content
  • CE information to come
  • Handouts and resources

Meet Your Experts

Kristin Dempsey, EdD, LPCC, LMFT, MINT Certified Trainer

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Kristin Dempsey, EdD, LPCC, LMFT, MINT Certified Trainer, frequently trains diverse mental health and helping professionals in MI, trauma-informed care, crisis interventions, and various cognitive behavioral and behavioral therapy approaches. She specialized in working with individuals experiencing co-occurring mental health and substance use issues, trauma, and eating disorders, among other conditions. Kristin teaches from a strengths-based approach that explores values and meaning-building for clients, supervisees and clinicians alike.
 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Kristin Dempsey maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with the Wright Institute and the San Francisco State University. She receives royalties as a published author. Kristin Dempsey receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Kristin Dempsey has no relevant non-financial relationships.
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Ali Hall, JD, MINT Certified Trainer

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Ali Hall, JD, MINT Certified Trainer, is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT), a MINT Certified Trainer, and an independent consultant and trainer. Ali currently serves on the MINT Board of Directors, focusing on professional skill development for MI practitioners and trainers. Ali served as a Lead Trainer for the International MINT Training for New Trainers (TNT) in Warsaw (2019), New Orleans (2018) and Berlin (2015). Ali has designed and facilitated more than 2500 Motivational Interviewing (MI) workshops for criminal justice, wraparound services, chronic disease and diabetes self-management educators, health care practitioners, health coaches, telephonic health service providers, social services providers, behavioral health clinicians, social workers, psychologists, and psychiatrists, and provides training for trainers in evidence-based practices. Ali regularly presents at national and regional conferences for wraparound, criminal justice, health care providers, public health leaders and key organizational administrators.

Ali regularly provides MI coding and evaluation training, coding services and skill development coaching, and provides consultation to systems for establishing communities of practice and for effective, sustainable MI implementation. Ali is the co-developer of the Motivational Interviewing Competency Assessment (MICA), a coding and coaching tool for MI skill improvement.

Ali regularly designs and evaluates MI interventions for funded research, including large national and international studies. Ali’s work with agencies includes creating skills development curricula for staff and materials for those served. Ali also regularly provides workshops in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), applications of Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) and integration of MI and skill building evidence-based practices. Ali is the co-author of an MI skill-building manual and toolkit, to be released in late 2020 (published by PESI Behavioral Health Continuing Education). Ali also serves as a reviewer for the National Registry for Evidence-Based Practices and Programs (NREPP).

Ali spent her undergraduate years at Occidental College in Los Angeles and completed her graduate studies in organizational behavior at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, as well as her J.D. at the Cornell University School of Law. In her spare time, Ali is a cold-water marathon swimmer, raising funds for under-resourced kid’s charities.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Ali Hall receives compensation as an independent consultant and trainer. She is a member of MINT and is the co-developer of Motivational Interviewing Competency Assessment. She receives royalties as a published author. Ali Hall receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Ali Hall serves on the board of directors of MINT.
More taught by Ali Hall, JD, MINT Certified Trainer

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Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Product Code:
POS059122
Duration:
8 hours, 52 minutes
Copyright:
Aug 03, 2022
Closed Captions:
Available
Format:
Audio and Video

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