Motivational Interviewing: Beginning Skill Mastery SESSION 1

This instructional and skill-building workshop provides a basic introduction to the Motivational Interviewing approach first popularized by William Miller & Stephen Rollnick. Utilizing lecture, role-playing practice and group discussion, this course will lay a foundation for participants to begin to develop their clinical skills in helping people accomplish change in areas of difficult behavior, for which ambivalence is an expectation rather than an exception.

1. Describe motivational interviewing/motivational enhancement and its 4-phase intervention hierarchy.

2. Describe motivational interviewing's philosophical underpinnings, as reflected in its 5 core principles.

3. Identify and avoid 6 major traps that would interfere with helping ambivalent clients change.

4. Describe the 5 basic tools/skills of motivational interviewing.

5. Apply motivational interviewing skills in early engagement, information exchange, and initiation of a plan of action with a client.

6. Identify additional information and resources regarding developing Motivational Interviewing/Motivational Enhancement skills.

Registration is required. Walk-ins WILL NOT be permitted. Register to ensure your attendance.

By joining us at this event, attendees consent to Detroit Wayne Integrated Health Network's Detroit Wayne Connect photographing, videotaping and using your image and likeness.

2 HOURS OF CREDITS ARE AWARDED EACH SESSION (3 SESSIONS IN ALL) FOR A TOTAL OF 6 CREDIT HOURS. YOU MUST ATTEND ALL 3 SESSIONS TO OBTAIN 6 CREDIT HOURS.

2 MI-CEC

2 MCBAP

2 CHMP

2 QIDP

If you have individual requirements or need special services to participate in this training, please notify Tinetra Burns at (313) 344-9099 or tburns@dwihn.org. Please make arrangements at least two weeks before the event date.

If you work WITHIN Wayne County please dismiss the payment portion of the registration process and hit "submit".

If you work OUTSIDE of Wayne County there is a nominal $15.00 registration fee to attend this training. Please pay prior to your arrival by entering your credit card information when the registration process asks for it. You may also bring a company check or money order for the full amount with you to the registration table at the event as well. All checks/money orders can be made out to ‘DWIHN’. Receipts will be available upon request.

Substitutions are permitted at any time. No Shows will be billed at the same rate. Cancellations must be received in writing no later than 7 business days prior to the training to asmith1@dwihn.org in order to obtain a full refund. If cancellation is received less than 7 days prior to the training, no refund will be issued.