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Motivational Interviewing for Adolescent Health Behavior
by Cathy Cole
Learn how to effectively support and empower adolescents dealing with health concerns using Motivational Interviewing skills and techniques.
In this course, MI trainer Cathy Cole, LCSW, outlines the basic principles of MI known as the “MI Spirit,” and together with colleague Nikki Cockern, PhD, demonstrates how to apply these principles in 4 sessions with high school and college-age teens dealing with serious health issues: HIV, weight management, Type 1 diabetes, and risky sexual behavior.
Covering the four MI processes, change talk and sustain talk, and “the righting reflex”—our natural yet ill-advised urge to “fix” our clients—Cole emphasizes the method’s nonjudgmental, client-centered nature.
In sessions with Sean, Carlotta, Olga, and Missy, you’ll observe how to use MI to manage risk, communicate nonjudgment, deepen rapport, and draw out your clients’ innate strengths. This video also offers realistic commentary, in which Cole discusses both the successes and the challenges of each session and how to work with your own righting reflex.
You will see why MI is so widely adopted in health-care settings and how its spirit of collaboration reduces resistance and promotes adolescent interest in change.
What therapists are saying…
“If I could choose only one video to explicate the power of using MI with adolescents, I would recommend viewing the session with an MI counselor and an HIV positive client and the discussion before and after. This an extraordinary example of the use of MI processes in drawing out the angst and reactions of a young client. Teaching highly diverse graduate students, I am impressed with the diversity of both counselors and clients in the video.”
—Jane M. Webber, PhD, LPC, Lecturer, Counselor Education, Program, Kean University
—Jane M. Webber, PhD, LPC, Lecturer, Counselor Education, Program, Kean University
“Cathy Cole embodies the spirit of Motivational Interviewing and the posture of curiosity that makes MI so effective. A trainer for over 20 years, Cole masterfully demonstrates high level MI while breaking down each session in a way that demystifies the process. This video can serve as a great introduction or a more advanced tutorial of MI skills for those that have difficult conversations about change with adolescents.”
—Scott Kerby, MA LPC, Member of MINT
—Scott Kerby, MA LPC, Member of MINT
“I highly recommend this video to MI teachers, trainers and learners. The video is contemporary in that it follows and engages with the newest conceptualizations and constructs related to MI. The portrayal of racially and ethnically diverse MI providers and clients is a significant addition to the body of MI training videos that tend to lack representational diversity. As a teacher and trainer, the varied conversations that focus on engaging, focusing, and evoking will be of great use to my teaching.”
—Stéphanie Wahab, PhD, Professor, School of Social Work, Portland State University
—Stéphanie Wahab, PhD, Professor, School of Social Work, Portland State University
As therapists, we need a strong, connected therapeutic alliance with our clients to make progress. Yet, given our field’s tendency to train us to advise, direct, prescribe, or otherwise take the lead, this alliance—and our clients’ sense of autonomy and agency—can be compromised. In this excellent new video, Motivational Interviewing expert Cathy Cole offers practical tools to help you support and empower adolescents dealing with health concerns, in the spirit of attunement and partnership. You’ll watch Cole and her colleague apply MI to four engaging sessions with teenage clients, and you’ll learn strategies for applying these skills in your own practice.
Cole begins with an overview of MI’s key principles. You’ll learn about the “MI Spirit”; the open-ended questions, affirmations, reflections, and summaries (otherwise known as OARS) that comprise MI’s skill set; the four MI processes of engaging, focusing, evoking, and planning; change talk and sustain talk; and “the righting reflex.” In sessions with Sean, Carlotta, Olga, and Missy, you’ll observe how to use MI to manage risk, communicate nonjudgment, deepen rapport, and draw out your clients’ innate strengths. This video also offers realistic commentary, in which Cole discusses both the successes and the challenges of each session and then discusses how to work with your own “righting reflex” to clinical benefit.
This video is an necessary resource for clinicians who want proven strategies for using Motivational Interviewing with teens, health issues, or even the general population.
By watching this video, you will:
• List the key tenets of Motivational Interviewing (MI) and its application to adolescent health behavior.
• Describe how to engage and empower clients using a collaborative, nonjudgmental approach.
• Compile helpful tools for working with your own urges to advise or “fix” a client.
Cole begins with an overview of MI’s key principles. You’ll learn about the “MI Spirit”; the open-ended questions, affirmations, reflections, and summaries (otherwise known as OARS) that comprise MI’s skill set; the four MI processes of engaging, focusing, evoking, and planning; change talk and sustain talk; and “the righting reflex.” In sessions with Sean, Carlotta, Olga, and Missy, you’ll observe how to use MI to manage risk, communicate nonjudgment, deepen rapport, and draw out your clients’ innate strengths. This video also offers realistic commentary, in which Cole discusses both the successes and the challenges of each session and then discusses how to work with your own “righting reflex” to clinical benefit.
This video is an necessary resource for clinicians who want proven strategies for using Motivational Interviewing with teens, health issues, or even the general population.
By watching this video, you will:
• List the key tenets of Motivational Interviewing (MI) and its application to adolescent health behavior.
• Describe how to engage and empower clients using a collaborative, nonjudgmental approach.
• Compile helpful tools for working with your own urges to advise or “fix” a client.
Length of video: 3:06:21
English subtitles available
Group ISBN-10 #: 1-60124-533-5
Group ISBN-13 #: 978-1-60124-533-5
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, and can be reached through her website, cathycoletraining.com.See all Cathy Cole videos.
CE credits: 3
Learning Objectives:
- Discuss the application of Motivational Interviewing (MI) to adolescent health behavior
- Describe how to engage and empower clients using a collaboration
- Describe helpful tools for addressing the "righting reflex" in treatment
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
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