Motivational Interviewing with Adolescents: Core Concepts
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Overview
In this course, Sebastian Kaplan, PhD, demonstrates how to successfully apply MI in 4 individual and family sessions with 2 thirteen-year-old girls.
Marley’s falling grades and increased truancy and Katie’s self-harming behavior in response to bullying have brought them into a therapist’s office. Watch as Kaplan demonstrates how to use MI to manage risk, deepen rapport, and draw out his clients’ innate strengths. This video also offers in-depth commentary, in which Kaplan openly discusses his frustrations in session and then shows how to make therapeutic use of them.
In addition to an overview of Motivational Interviewing (MI) and its application to adolescents, you will learn how to bring parents into the clinical picture and discover helpful tools for working with your own internal responses to clients.
What’s Included
Motivational Interviewing expert Sebastian Kaplan offers practical tools to help you move forward with adolescents and their families. You’ll watch Kaplan apply MI to four challenging sessions with adolescent clients, individually and with their parents, and you’ll learn strategies for applying these skills in your own practice. What’s more, you’ll learn how MI can help you resist the urge to “fix” your clients.
To start, Kaplan outlines the key principles of MI, known as the “MI Spirit,” and details each component alongside case vignettes. Covering the four MI processes, change talk and sustain talk, and “the righting reflex,” Kaplan illustrates the method’s collaborative, client-engaging nature. With 13-year-old Marley, her parents, and 13-year-old Katie, Kaplan demonstrates how to use MI to manage risk, communicate nonjudgment, deepen rapport, and draw out his clients’ innate strengths. This video also offers realistic commentary, in which Kaplan openly discusses his frustrations in session and then shows how to work with them to clinical benefit.
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.
Disclosures
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Therapist Disclosure
Sebastian Kaplan was compensated for his contribution to this course. None of his 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
- Explain the value of Motivational Interviewing (MI) with adolescent clients
- Learn how to bring parents into the clinical picture from an MI standpoint.
- 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
3 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.”
“Clinicians taking these courses will benefit from observing the therapists’ ability to bring together both the attitude of collaboration and the specific skills to reduce resistance and promote adolescent interest in change, additionally providing examples of ways to strategically engage young adolescents.”
