Motivational Interviewing as a Path to Personal Change

This three-hour course is instructed fully live online via Zoom by instructor Michelle Drapkin, PhD, ABPP

Motivational Interviewing (MI) sounds great on paper and sometimes those using MI struggle with when and how to use it for self-help or in practice. This workshop will teach strategies to help helpers bring MI to life in their work or individuals in their self-care work.

Materials have been updated to reflect new content in the recently released 4th edition of the Motivational Interviewing textbook, including the new MI spirit language. We will cover MI basic relational skills (spirit and micro skills — OARS (open-ended questions, affirmations, reflections, and summary statements) as well as dive into the MI technical skills (identifying, eliciting, and reinforcing change talk).

We will review MI tools that you can use in sessions and incorporate with other strategies you employ in your work for use by individuals to develop a path to personal change. We will leverage a combination of real play, role play, and demonstrations to take your best MI knowledge and apply it. This will be a highly interactive session — come prepared to think through your own personal path to change using MI strategies.

Learning Objectives

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

• Define Motivational Interviewing (MI)
• Describe the Motivational Interviewing spirit
• Explain the four tasks of MI and how they fit into a personal change journey
• Explain how MI can be used as a self-help intervention

Additional learning objectives for helping professionals

• Use open-ended questions, affirmations, reflections, and summaries (OARS) with clients
• Describe how to implement MI self-help exercises in your work

Audience

Beginner to Advanced

By participating in this class you will earn:

Instructional Hours	3
University of Wisconsin Continuing Education Units	.3
American Psychological Association - Continuing Education Credit	3
Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services - Substance Abuse Counselors - Continuing Education Credit Hours	3
Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services - Marriage and Family Therapists - Continuing Education Credit Hours	3
Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services - Social Workers - Continuing Education Credit Hours	3
Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services - Licensed Professional Counselors	3

Explanation of Continuing Education Hours