Motivational Interviewing : Counseling Resources

Motivational Interviewing Step by Step: 4-Video Series

with Cathy Cole

Learn Motivational Interviewing with the most in-depth training series to date. Demonstrations and interviews illuminate the underlying principles, tools, techniques, and strategies that will enhance your skills in leading clients through the change process.

Motivational Interviewing with Adolescents: 4-video series

with 0

Do you want to effectively help adolescents change their most destructive behaviors? In this series, learn how to apply motivational interviewing in your work with teens struggling with substance use, health behaviors, delinquency, or the every-day difficulties of this challenging period of life.

Motivational Interviewing for Concurrent Disorders

with Wayne Skinner and Clive Chamberlain

What is Motivational Interviewing, and how does it apply to co-occurring conditions? In this video, Wayne Skinner and Clive Chamberlain demonstrate key techniques for supporting clients with concurrent mental health and substance abuse disorders.

Motivational Interviewing

with William R. Miller

See William R. Miller utilize Motivational Interviewing in an actual counseling session with a client struggling with smoking cessation and drinking.

Managing Weight Loss with Motivational Interviewing

with Cathy Cole

The challenges surrounding weight loss can be complex, and effective clinicians must do more than simply offering advice on diet and exercise. Discover how to use MI techniques to get to the core of your clients’ barriers to weight loss so they can begin to affect meaningful change in their lives.

Motivational Interviewing with a Defiant Teen

with Sebastian Kaplan

What do you do when your young client doesn’t want to be in school, much less therapy? Learn how to avoid the landmines commonly set by teens struggling to assert their autonomy, and develop rapport with even the most resistant clients.

William Miller on Motivational Interviewing

with William R. Miller

In this compelling interview, Miller discusses the evolution of Motivational Interviewing, the spirit of MI, and specific techniques that clinicians can begin applying immediately.

Core Concepts of Motivational Interviewing

with Cathy Cole

Expert MI trainer Cathy Cole discusses the principles and spirit of MI, along with core concepts and techniques and ingredients for change.

Increasing Importance in Motivational Interviewing

with Cathy Cole

With three full-length sessions in diverse client settings, Cathy Cole demonstrates strategies for working with clients who are initially reluctant to change.

Resolving Ambivalence in Motivational Interviewing

with Cathy Cole

Learn Motivational Interviewing's tools and techniques for helping clients fully explore their ambivalence as a critical part of the change process.

Building Confidence in Motivational Interviewing

with Cathy Cole

Having a plan isn't enough. Learn to help clients build the confidence they need to put a change plan into action. Cathy Cole works with three clients who lack confidence in their ability to achieve their goals.

Motivational Interviewing for Adolescent Health Behavior

with Cathy Cole

Learn how to effectively support and empower adolescents dealing with health concerns using Motivational Interviewing skills and techniques.

Motivational Interviewing with Adolescents: Core Concepts

with Sebastian Kaplan

Learn how to apply Motivational Interviewing principles to resistant adolescent clients and how to support and empower them to change their destructive behaviors.

Motivational Interviewing for Adolescent Substance Use

with Sebastian Kaplan, PhD, & Ali Hall, JD

Acquire practical Motivational Interviewing tools to help you manage challenging sessions with adolescent clients struggling with substance use.

Motivational Interviewing in Juvenile Justice Settings

with Ali Hall

Without a strong alliance and clear boundaries, mandated clients will often shut down or act out—especially if they are teenagers. How do you work to meet both institutional and clinical goals? MI expert Ali Hall demonstrates how to use this collaborative approach in juvenile justice settings.

Art & Drama Sessions with Two Young Families

with Judith Rubin, PhD & Eleanor Irwin, PhD

Videotaped sessions from two families show similarities and differences in art and drama family sessions, but interactional patterns and conflicts are illustrated in both, including issues of dominance/submission; victim/aggressor; problem-maker/problem-solver.

Motivational Interviewing in End-of-Life Care

with Ellen Young

A social work intern grapples with a situation that would challenge even an experienced clinician: helping a loving wife decide whether to stop feeding her dying husband of 64 years.

Cathy Cole on Motivational Interviewing

An expert MI trainer and practitioner discusses the foundations and applications of Motivational Interviewing. Learn how MI can be used with clients struggling with addiction and PTSD, and get a sneak peek into the MI training process.

Howard Kassinove on Anger Management

Anger management expert Christian Conte, PhD, interviews fellow anger management expert, Howard Kassinove, PhD, on the history of anger management treatment, the fundamentals of practice, the importance of humor and the woefully inadequate programs offered to violent offenders in most states in the U.S.

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