Motivational Interviewing - Foundational ($300-450)

Motivational Interviewing is an evidence-based treatment method that has been evaluated in more than a thousand controlled clinical-trials, a demonstrated effective alternative to trying to persuade clients to change. In this online course, you will learn how to utilize Motivational Interviewing to help your clients find their own motivations for positive change. Discover how to use questions, reflections, and summaries selectively to facilitate change and incorporate the underlying person-centered spirit of MI in your everyday work with clients.

Each week includes carefully crafted video lessons and demonstrations that show you not just what to do but how to do it, plus animations and interactive quizzes are designed to both entertain you and reinforce key learning points.

Your Motivational Interviewing training course also includes a library of resources and readings for you to delve more deeply into this broadly applicable clinical method of motivation and change.

To complete your learning experience, the course also includes a forum where you can share your experiences and ask questions week by week, supported by leading experts.

Course Goals

• Learn an effective alternative to trying to persuade clients to change
• Help your clients find their own motivations for positive change
• Tune your clinical ear to hear aspects of client speech that tell you as the session is happening whether you are moving in the right (or wrong) direction
• Incorporate the underlying person-centered spirit of MI in your everyday work with clients
• Discover how to use questions, reflections, and summaries selectively to facilitate change
• Observe how reflective listening can help you when emotions run high, as when a client is upset or angry
• Understand what to do differently when you choose to remain neutral about a client decision
• Learn how to respond when the problem seems to be low confidence
• Relieve frustrations that you may feel about trying to make people change