Use of Motivational Interviewing to Broaden Your Skills with Your Clients

You hear about and might even had some training on Motivational Interviewing (MI) but now you can spend some time and examine how to use MI in a variety of settings including Substance Use Disorder, Integrated Medicine and Mental Health Disorder Treatment Centers. Learn about what does it take to help clients to identify their issues which need treatment and then assist in planning the treatment plans for addressing these issues.

Learning Objectives:

This presentation will provide its participants the background, techniques, and case studies to examine how to utilize Motivational Interviewing in a variety of treatment settings with a variety of clinical presenting issues. 

(1)     After this webinar, participants will be able to identify the key components of the steps in Motivational Interviewing and how these components will assist their clients to better focus on their personal issues which need treatment.

(2)     After this webinar, participants will be able to identify how Motivational Interviewing can be used with a variety of clients who have substance use disorders or mental health disorders or medical conditions which they need to address to get treatment for and then follow through to reach the therapeutic goals which they assisted in developing for themselves to achieve full recovery from their pressing issues.

(3)     After this webinar, participants will be able to identify research evidence which supports Motivational Interviewing as an Evidence Based Practice within substance use disorder, mental health disorder and medical treatment centers, programs and settings.

(4)     After this webinar, participants will be able to identify Motivational Interviewing strategies which work with patients in a variety of treatment settings through intensive case study reviews.

(5)     After this webinar, participants will be able to identify the existing resources available for them to continue to strengthen and become more effective in providing Motivational Interviewing in their clinical practices.

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About the Presenter:

Since 2010, Jim has been an Assistant Professor in a CACREP Accredited Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program for Troy University at their Tampa Bay Site. Prior to that position, he had been involved in providing Behavioral Health interventions since 1980 both in Private Practice and in Public Agencies including: as the Behavioral Health Consultant at United Cerebral Palsy in Tampa; St Joseph’s Hospital in Tampa and rehabilitation and nursing facilities around the West Coast of Florida.  He has extensive coverage of a variety of mental health and substance use disorders on his website: www.coping.us. Jim was co-founder and second President of AMHCA and was on the founding board of the NBCC. He is currently the Treasurer of FMHCA and the Moderator for the Integrated Medicine Community on the AMHCA Website.