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Overview: Extra Information
This course is designed for participants who have either:
- Have experience using MI in a professional setting, or
- Meet the following minimum course requirements:
- At least three (3) days of cumulative MI training
- Experience using MI in a professional setting
- Understand MI theory and practice, including the following terms and concepts:
- Sustain Talk
- Change Talk
- Ambivalence
- Discord
- Dealing with Discord
- Definition of MI
- Motivation: where it comes from
- Helper's role in change process
- Righting Reflex
- Amplified Reflection
- Complex Reflection
- Simple Reflection
- Double-Sided Reflection
- Metaphor
- Affirmation vs. Compliments
- Focusing
- Engaging
- Planning
- Knowing the Why vs. the How
- Affective/Feeling Reflection
- Coming Alongside
- Evoking
- Evocation
- Partnership
- Acceptance
- Emphasizing Autonomy
- Seeking Collaboration
- Compassion
Course Outline
Agenda
Day 1
- Apply the relational skills of Motivational Interviewing to patient interactions
- Observe and recognize fundamental skills: listening, open-ended questions, affirmations, reflective listening, summarization, seeking collaboration and emphasizing autonomy
Day 2
- Describe the MI practice elements at the highest levels of competency
- Employ knowledge of relational elements to feedback and coaching with class peers
Day 3
- Identify situations where focusing goes off track
- Construct effective and highly rated responses to different client cues (readiness, ambivalence and discordance)
- Employ knowledge of technical elements to feedback and coaching with class peers
- Practice coding using your own peer interview
Day 4
- Prepare to use MI skills for planning in real practice settings
- Design a plan for advancing individual MI skills
- Apply course knowledge to a final standardized client interview
Earn Continuing Education Hours
By participating in this class you will earn:
Instructional Hours | 20 |
University of Wisconsin Continuing Education Units | 2 |
American Psychological Association - Continuing Education Credit | 20 |
Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services - Substance Abuse Counselors - Continuing Education Credit Hours | 20 |
Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services - Marriage and Family Therapists - Continuing Education Credit Hours | 20 |
Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services - Social Workers - Continuing Education Credit Hours | 20 |
Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services - Licensed Professional Counselors | 20 |