Motivational Interviewing Step by Step
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Overview
Motivational Interviewing, originally developed by William Miller as a person-centered approach to working with addictions, has been widely used in fields as varied as healthcare, education, and criminal justice. Learn Motivational Interviewing through demonstrations and interviews that illuminate the underlying principles, tools, techniques, and strategies that will enhance your skills in leading clients through the change process.
In the first module of this highly acclaimed series, Core Concepts, expert MI trainer and practitioner Cathy Cole first introduces the foundational principles; then numerous demonstrations and exercises, including actual session excerpts with Bill Miller, will allow you to practice MI techniques.
Each subsequent module focuses on demonstrating, through a series of vignettes, various MI strategies applied to different stages of change. The client sessions in each video occur in a diverse range of settings, from mandated substance abuse counseling to healthcare, schools, EAP and beyond. Increasing Importance addresses how to help clients who are unsure whether change is even desirable. Resolving Ambivalence tackles a central issue in MI—dealing with clients who haven’t decided which choice is the right one. And Building Confidence focuses on the helping clients trust their own ability to enact the desired change.
What’s Included
Volume 1: Core Concepts
The first module focuses on learning and practicing the fundamental skills of MI. Outlining first key MI concepts such as sustain talk versus change talk and the righting reflex, Cathy Cole then guides you through the main MI techniques and other ingredients for change, with short demonstrations with William Miller. Self-paced practice exercises in which viewers can pause the video, practice the skills, and then see how Miller and Cole would respond and end this first module.
Volume 2: Increasing Importance
A key component of making any change is to consider the change important. In this video, Cathy Cole digs into this critical issue of increasing importance and demystifies MI by demonstrating each technique in three full-length sessions. Learn core MI techniques for increasing importance such as: reflections; chunk-check-chunk; elicit-provide-elicit; the importance ruler exercise; and looking ahead.
Volume 3: Resolving Ambivalence
Ambivalence is frequently at the heart of our struggles to embark upon change. Cole teaches viewers how to facilitate clients’ exploration of their dilemmas, how to reinforce change talk, and how to respond effectively when clients express their reasons for not wanting to change. Learn, through 3 real-length sessions, core MI techniques for resolving ambivalence such as double-sided reflections, decisional balance, and envisioning.
Volume 4: Building Confidence
Having a plan is not enough! By identifying where exactly the client is lacking confidence to move forward, MI provides a framework and tools for addressing what is oftentimes the last obstacle to change. Cathy Cole demonstrates here how to utilize clients’ personal strengths, values, and past successes to build their confidence in the present, and how to facilitate your clients’ best efforts at following through with their change plans.
Skill-Building Exercise – In session with Bill Miller
Watch a real life session with Barbara, a client suffering from drug addiction, and practice recognizing the MI techniques (OARS) and identifying sustain talk and change talk.
Practice MI Skills with Cathy Cole
Cathy Cole leads you through 5 exercises, to help you practice Engaging, Focusing, Evoking and Planning.
BONUS Video: Interview with William Miller
For the past four decades, William Miller, the founder of MI, has researched an essential question: how do people change? In this interview, he elaborates on his findings, which in many ways turn conventional wisdom on its head. Motivational Interviewing offers an alternative that might be obvious to some and radical to others: honor the person’s autonomy, draw forth the inherent desire to change, and take a collaborative—rather than confrontational—approach.
About the Experts
Cathy Cole, LCSW, has trained thousands of diverse professionals in MI since 1995, and is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers. She maintains an active clinical practice.
Disclosures
General Disclosure
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Therapist Disclosure
Cathy Cole 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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Learning Objectives
- Describe the spirit of Motivational Interviewing
- Explain how MI is applied in counseling sessions
- Apply specific MI techniques in your own practice
- Explain the key theoretical elements of MI
- Describe the challenges of working with ambivalent clients
- Apply key MI principles in your own therapeutic work
- Describe MI strategies that are useful with ambivalent clients
- Describe the difference between sustain talk and change talk
- Apply specific MI techniques in building a therapeutic change plan
- Describe in-sessions roadblocks to confidence building
- Explain how to capitalize on the client’s personal strengths in treatment
- Apply MI techniques for confidence building in your own therapeutic work
What you get in this course
Real Sessions
Over 10 hours of video including 10 full length MI sessions that provide a step-by-step approach to learning MI.
Therapist Commentary
Detailed session commentary to enhance understanding of strategies and skills used by counselors
Continuing Education
10 CE credits available
Hands-on practice
A dedicated module where Cathy Cole leads 5 self-paced exercises
Bonus Video
Interview with William Miller where he elaborates on his findings, which in many ways turn conventional wisdom on its head.
“Cathy Cole is masterful at helping clients envision making changes by helping them reflect on their goals, weigh the pros and cons of making change, and developing concrete plans that they can implement, and identifying resources that will help them facilitate their plan of action.”
“This series would likely be a valuable learning tool for both novice and experienced motivational interviewers. For the latter, this series would be valuable as a refresher course. For the former, this series would be a valuable adjunct to formal training and coaching.”
“I was particularly impressed with real-time commentary during sessions. I believe this will heighten interest and understanding of the viewer, and no doubt greatly facilitate learning. These videos are a valuable adjunct to the learning of MI.”
