Motivational Interviewing for Adolescent Substance Use
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Overview
Working with adolescents can be challenging enough without adding substance use issues to the mix. When teens’ age-appropriate desire for autonomy gets compromised by substance use and addiction, it can be difficult for clinicians to effectively navigate heightened levels of client ambivalence alongside their own “righting reflex”—their desire to fix their clients.
In this compelling new video, Sebastian Kaplan, PhD, and Ali Hall, JD, demonstrate how to manage these elements using tools from Motivational Interviewing, a client-centered alternative to traditional, often confrontational addiction treatment. Here, you’ll discover how to deepen rapport, diffuse resistance, and draw out adolescent clients’ intrinsic strengths.
Learn strategies to engage teenage clients who do not even want to be in your office, much less receive treatment, through clinical demonstrations with three adolescent clients using marijuana, heroin, and opiates. Develop your skills to support adolescent clients, without conveying the disrespect they might expect from adults in authority roles.
This course is a must If you’re seeking resources for teens, addiction and recovery, or client-centered counseling.
What’s Included
In this course, MI expert Sebastian Kaplan offers practical tools to help you manage challenging sessions with adolescent clients experiencing substance use—both issues related and seemingly unrelated to it. Here, you’ll gain strategies for applying these skills in your own practice, and discover how MI can help you resist the understandable urge to advise or “fix” your clients.
Kaplan outlines the key principles of MI, known as the “MI Spirit,” and details each component alongside case vignettes. Covering OARS skills, the four MI processes, change and sustain talk, and “the righting reflex,” Kaplan describes the method’s collaborative, client-engaging nature. Then, four annotated sessions follow in which Kaplan and fellow MI trainer Ali Hall work with several teen clients. You’ll see the method in action as the aforementioned skills are applied, with the result of deepening the working alliance, providing MI-compliant feedback, and evoking change talk.
About the Experts
Sebastian Kaplan, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Section, at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. A former special education teacher, Dr. Kaplan, PhD currently focuses his clinical work on helping adolescents and their families overcome a variety of challenges to their growth and development. He has written and presented on the application of MI for pediatricians, mental health providers, and school personnel, and is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers.
Ali Hall, JD, is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) and an independent consultant and trainer. Ali has designed and facilitated over 900 Motivational Interviewing workshops for health care practitioners, behavioral health clinicians, psychologists, psychiatrists, and criminal/juvenile justice professionals, and provides training for trainers in evidence-based practices. Ali offers MI coding and skill development coaching, and provides consultation to systems for effective MI implementation.
Disclosures
General Disclosure
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Therapist Disclosure
Sebastian Kaplan and Ali Hall were compensated for their contribution to this course. None of their books or additional offerings are required for this course. Should such materials be referenced, it is only as additional resources.
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Learning Objectives
- Discuss Motivational Interviewing’s (MI) role in addressing adolescent substance use
- List MI skills that address client resistance
- Analyze the impact of your own internal responses in your MI work
What you get in this course
Real Sessions
Clinical demonstrations of MI techniques in live sessions with adolescents in various settings
Therapist Commentary
In-depth session commentary to delve deeper into how to use MI in your practice
Continuing Education
2.25 CE credits available
“This course illustrates how the Spirit of MI is particularly effective in addressing adolescent substance use and the challenges of this population. It addresses nuances of working with adolescents, including respecting autonomy, cultivating change talk and refraining from the righting reflex.”
“The combination of live sessions with conceptual and summary discussions provide an effective and inspiring way to learn about MI and its tremendous value when applied to counseling clients in this age group.”
