Many traditional counseling methods have emphasized a more directive, agenda-based style, and perhaps understandably, counseling in juvenile justice settings has followed suit—favoring behavioral change via compliance versus self-determination. Unfortunately, conventional strategies have shown themselves to lead to misattunement, client resistance, and poor outcomes. In this new video, 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.
This video is invaluable for clinicians who want a primer on MI, effective strategies for adolescent therapy, or interventions for incarcerated populations. Add this title to your library today.
By watching this video, you will:
• Get an overview of Motivational Interviewing (MI) and its application to adolescents in juvenile justice settings.
• Learn MI skills that support the therapeutic alliance and manage client resistance.
• Understand how to structure an MI-based peer consultation group.
Length of video: 2:36:51
English subtitles available
Group ISBN-10 #: 1-60124-534-3
Group ISBN-13 #: 978-1-60124-534-2
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.
CE credits: 2.5
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
Bibliography available upon request
This course is offered for ASWB ACE credit for social workers. See complete list of CE approvals here
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Course Reviewed January 2023