ISSUP Webinar: Motivational Interviewing Course Session 1
Submitted by James Harvey
(ISSUP staff) - 26 May 2020
Session 1: Motivational Interviewing: Basic Understanding
Thursday June 4th 2020
After orientation to the underlying spirit and principles of MI, practical exercises will help participants to strengthen empathy skills, recognize and elicit change talk, and roll with resistance. Research evidence will be reviewed for the efficacy of MI and for the importance of building a therapeutic relationship in clients’ outcomes. Integration of MI with other treatment modalities will be considered.
Learning outcomes:
- Introduction: Motivation and behavioral change in addiction medicine
- Review of the concepts of Ambivalence, Stages of change, the righting reflex, limits of persuasion.
- Spirit of MI
- Expressing empathy
- Roadblocks to communication
- Four Processes in MI
Time: 9am Pacific / 12pm Eastern / 5pm London
Duration: 1 hour
Attendance certificates available.