Description:
Motivational Interviewing is a style of working with clients with addictive behavior disorders designed to increase motivation for change. This workshop will teach caseworkers to match interventions to six stages of readiness-for-change. It will emphasize motivational strategies that include how to help the client resolve ambivalence impasses that impede change, how to identify the carrots that will keep the client internally motivated to work in a positive direction and how to remove obstacles to change.
This workshop is based on the book by Stephen Rollick and William Miller, as well as the work of Prochaska and DiClemente and Alan Marlatt. Although the M.I. approach was developed for treatment of addictive behavior disorders, it lends itself to the treatment of any chronic, relapsing condition in which the client is ambivalent about change. Fourteen (14) CAC Certification Hours available.
Target Audience: Intake and ongoing caseworkers, case aids, and substance abuse professionals. |
