Motivational Interviewing
Chuck Smith & Julia Simmons
Intended Audience: Department of Health and Human Services employees, foster and adoptive parents and the staff of social service agencies providing services to clients of the Department
Credit: 0.6 ceu's
This training course aims to provide workers with a basic framework to understand and analyze motivation and change. It also aims to teach the core motivational interviewing skills of exploring and individual's ambivalence and eliciting change talk that are required to use with the model of change. The Protchaska and DiClimenti model of change can accomodate a range of therapeutic methods and can be appliced equally to clinical, organizational and personal problem-solving. It is augmented by a study of Morrison's seven stages of contemplation. A plan is put in place a the culmination of training for trainees to use Motivational Interviewing with a number of their clients.
