Motivational interviewing is an interactive method for enhancing people’s motivation to change behavior. It has been the subject of more than 180 randomized controlled trials across disciplines and is considered a best evidence-based practice in many settings around the world in exploring a person’s uncertainty and helping them move toward lasting, positive change.
Topics include:
- Explain the core components of motivational interviewing
- Describe the Stages of Change theory, with an understanding that change is a process, not an event
- Execute exercises to increase connection to youth and parents
- Define and utilize three key strategies to avoid argumentation and bypass
- Define the role of ambivalence that keeps people “stuck¨ in behavior patterns and how to influence this dynamic toward change
- Demonstrate recognition of “change talk” and how to respond to summon even more of it from challenging youth and families
- Define and practice planning and action
- Demonstrate learning to roll with resistance
- Demonstrate learning to move to a change plan
Course Code
500520