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Motivational Interviewing: Evidence-Based Skills to Effectively Treat Your Clients


Speaker:
Christopher Wagner, PhD
Duration:
Full Day
Format:
Audio and Video
Product Code:
LWC048275
Brochure Code:
PLW64396
Media Type:
Live Webcast

Dates

Normal Price:      $199.99 - Now:  $49.99 - Exclusive offer when combined with this live training.

Description

Do you have clients who:

Can’t seem to get started on making positive changes in their lives or begin but get bogged down?

Can’t quite find their direction or stop focusing on how others are to blame for their situation?

Resist nearly everything offered in support of helping them make their lives better?

All of these are common challenges across a range of settings, populations and clinical concerns.

Motivational Interviewing (MI) has emerged over the past two decades as a leading approach for addressing a core clinical concern – motivation.

Incorporating the latest MI developments, this workshop focuses on the key elements that can transform your practice to escape struggling with clients and make real change in people’s lives.

  • Learn how the MI process works and its application in different clinical situations
  • Discover why friends and family often contribute to motivational challenges that clients experience
  • Identify and avoid some traps that well-meaning helpers can fall into
  • Recognize how to thread the needle and help clients find new ways of thinking, feeling and behaving

Join motivational interviewing expert, trainer and author, Chris Wagner, Ph.D., for this action packed day! Learn how to effectively focus clients’ attention on embracing change and successfully anticipating and surmounting obstacles they face as they pursue it. You will leave this workshop inspired and prepared to help your clients get unstuck and begin creating more fulfilling lives. Register today!

Credit


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NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after passing the on-line post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). 

Continuing Education Information: Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this live interactive webcast. This webcast is a broadcast of a live event. You will be able to type questions to the speaker. The speaker will see the questions and address them during the presentation as time allows. Please note, your state licensing board dictates whether web based activities are an acceptable form of continuing education. Please refer to your state rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, please contact cepesi@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before the event.

Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession.  As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.

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Counselors - Counselors

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Social Workers - Colorado Social Workers

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Colorado Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers. Provider #1413. This course has been approved for 6.3 continuing education hours. 

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Psychologists - Florida Psychologists

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Marriage & Family Therapists - Illinois Marriage & Family Therapists

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Marriage & Family Therapists - New York Marriage & Family Therapists

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California Nurses

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Ohio Social Workers, Counselors, and Marriage & Family Therapists

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Pennsylvania Social Workers, Counselors, and Marriage & Family Therapists

This intermediate activity is approved for 6.25 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please contact your licensing board to determine if they accept programs or providers approved by other national or state licensing boards. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to participants who are in full attendance and who complete the program evaluation.


California Social Workers, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, and Licensed Educational Psychologists

This intermediate activity consists of 6.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please contact your licensing board to determine if they accept programs or providers approved by other national or state licensing boards. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to participants who are in full attendance and who complete the program evaluation.


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Speaker

Christopher Wagner, PhD's Profile

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Virginia Commonwealth University


Christopher C. Wagner, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist in Virginia and faculty member at Virginia Commonwealth University, with appointments in Rehabilitation Counseling, Psychology and Psychiatry. He began practicing MI in the 1990s and became a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) in 1998. From 2000-2008, he served in leadership positions in MINT, twice as chair of the network, and he has led three of their international training-of-trainers events. He was re-elected to the MINT board of directors in 2018.

Dr. Wagner has offered hundreds of MI trainings in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia/Oceania. In addition to focusing on clinical and theoretical advances in individual MI, he has also developed group applications of MI and is an author of the official Guilford series book on that topic, co-written with long-time colleague Karen Ingersoll. He has worked with individuals with a variety of health, mental health, addiction and employment challenges across outpatient, inpatient, residential and corrections settings. Dr. Wagner’s trainings are highly engaging and focused on helping participants incorporate MI skills and strategies into their current styles of practice.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Christopher Wagner has an employment relationship with Virginia Commonwealth University. He receives royalties as a published author. Christopher Wagner receives a speaking honorarium, recording royalties and book royalties. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Christopher Wagner is a member of the American Counseling Association, the American Group Psychotherapy Association, and the American Psychological Association.


Additional Info

Access Period for Live Webcast

For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time. You will have access for 90 days after the program for review. 


Webcast Schedule

Please note: There will be a lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion.


Target Audience

Counselors, Social Workers, Psychologists, Case Managers, Addiction Counselors, Therapists, Marriage & Family Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapy Assistants, Nurses, Other Mental Health Professionals

Outline

Motivation
  • What is motivation?
  • How ambivalence fits
  • Stages of change
Motivational Interviewing (MI)
  • Conversations about change
  • Resolve ambivalence about change
  • Relational and technical components that make MI work
  • Research limitations and potential risks of MI in treatment
The 4 Processes of MI

1. Engaging: The Relational Foundation
  • MI spirit: PACE
    • Partnership
    • Acceptance
    • Compassion
    • Empathy
  • Learn to listen reflectively – the backbone of MI
  • Core MI Skills: OARS
    • Open-questions
    • Affirmations
    • Reflections
    • Summaries
  • Clarify values and goals
2. Focusing: The Strategic Direction
  • Find a focus
  • Match your agenda to the client’s concerns
  • Exchange information
3. Evoking: Preparation for Change
  • Importance of change talk – a key ingredient of MI
    • Listen for and respond to change talk
    • Listen for specific kinds of change talk:
      • DARN (preparatory change talk)
      • CATS (mobilizing change talk)
    • Elicit more and elaborate on change talk
  • Respond to “resistance” in clients
  • Develop discrepancy
  • Evoke hope and confidence
4. Planning: The Bridge to Change
  • How and when to plan
  • Call on the CATS
  • Summarize and then ask a key question
Putting it All Together
  • Test skills by coding a MI video in action
MI and Clinical Problems
  • Depression and Anxiety
    • Enhance treatment engagement
    • Potentiate Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
    • Suicidal clients
  • Addictive Behaviors
    • Substance use
    • Other addictive/compulsive behaviors
    • 12 steps

Objectives

  1. Correlate the relational and technical components that allow MI to improve clinical outcomes through a positive and supportive way.
  2. Model how the 4 processes and OARS skills of MI help change happen in clients.
  3. Explore ways to elicit, recognize and respond to change talk in order to improve treatment outcomes.
  4. Practice specific ways to help clients resolve ambivalence, and talk themselves into change.
  5. Develop clinical strategies for working effectively with clients who seem “resistant” to change.
  6. Choose how to effectively use MI to help alleviate symptoms of anxiety, depression and addictive behaviors.

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"I thought the interaction was terrific, he involved and encouraged participation"

Holly A

"thanks, good program!"

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