Motivational Interviewing in Juvenile Justice Settings
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Overview
Are you looking for an alternative to the directive approaches traditionally used in Juvenile Justice settings? Working with mandated clients is a complicated endeavor to begin with, but when your clients are teens who are seeking—and testing the limits of— their autonomy, treatment can easily backfire without a collaborative working alliance.
In this course Ali Hall, JD, and her colleagues demonstrate how to reach effective outcomes with juvenile justice clients using Motivational Interviewing (MI). Through demonstrations with 4 clients, you will see how MI enables the counselors to partner with teens in ways that validate and empower them, even within the confines of the correctional system. What’s more, you’ll learn how to sidestep the urge to advise, direct, or confront struggling youth.
See how MI provides Hall with the tools to build a strong alliance with Samantha, on probation for marijuana possession, and how it enables her to take responsibility for her own behavior. Daniel Domaguin will show you how to deescalate angry clients using MI techniques in juvenile hall, while Deborah Collins demonstrates both MI-compliant and non-compliant approaches working with Tony, a teen mandated to counseling for substance use. Finally, a roundtable discussion with the 3 counselors demonstrates how to provide ongoing coaching support for your staff.
Designed for Juvenile Justice Staff and Counselors including Probation Officers, Case Managers, Youth Counselors, Re-entry Specialists, Juvenile Detention Officers, Juvenile Parole Officers, Youth Workers, and Substance Abuse Counselors
What’s Included
In this course, Motivational Interviewing expert Ali Hall demonstrates a refreshing approach to counseling for this challenging population. Here, she and two colleagues provide accessible ways for clinicians to establish rapport, handle resistance, and turn mere compliance into motivated action.
To start, Hall outlines the key principles of MI, known as the “MI Spirit,” and then details each component alongside annotated case vignettes. Covering “OARS-plus” skills, the four MI processes, change and sustain talk, “the righting reflex,” and “elicit-provide-elicit,” Hall describes the method’s collaborative, client-engaging nature. Then, four sessions follow in which she and fellow MI clinicians Daniel Domaguin and Deborah Collins work with mandated teen clients. Each clinician conveys partnership and empathy, and you’ll learn how to ask open-ended questions, use affirmations and reflections, diffuse escalated emotions, make important summaries, and identify sustain/change talk. In addition, you’ll see how to hold an MI-based peer consultation group, with structured activities and MI-consistent feedback.
About the Experts
Ali Hall, JD, is author of Motivational Interviewing for Mental Health Clinicians: A Toolkit for Skills Enhancement and 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
Ali Hall was compensated for her contribution to this course. None of her books or additional offerings are required for this course. Should such materials be referenced, it is only as additional resources.
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Additionally, there is no commercial support for this activity. None of the planners or any employee at Psychotherapy.net who has worked on this educational activity has relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies.
Learning Objectives
- Discuss Motivational Interviewing’s (MI) role in adolescents juvenile justice
- List MI skills that address client resistance
- Plan effective interventions using an MI-based peer consultation group
What you get in this course
Real Sessions
6 video demonstrations of Motivational Interviewing applied in various juvenile justice settings including a video demonstration of peer supervision group
Therapist Commentary
Detailed session commentary to enhance understanding of strategies and skills used by counselors
Expert Interviews
3 video interviews with seasoned MI trainers to discuss recommendations and challenges for successfully implementing MI in juvenile justice settings
Continuing Education
4 CE credits available
Bonus Resources
Downloadable MI workbook includes practice activities and worksheets for skill-building and self-evaluation, transcripts of all videos, and suggested discussion questions and role plays to enhance your practice
“A superb job of describing and demonstrating the use of MI with clients involved in the juvenile justice system. This will be very useful for those working with juvenile clients who are looking to utilize or increase their use of this effective communication method.”
“An excellent complement to classroom training because it provide demonstrations as well as explanations of how to use MI skills in longer contact sessions with young people in the juvenile justice system, as well as brief interactions when time is very limited.”
“This video should be in every counselor’s toolkit! After 40 years of counseling teenagers, I welcome how this powerful video captures the benefits of MI conversations with teenagers facing serious complex problems.”
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