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Beyond the Basics: Recognizing and Amplifying Motivation for Positive Change

LEVEL: INTERMEDIATE

You will be provided with multiple opportunities to stretch your use of open-ended questions, affirmations, reflections and summaries (OARS) beyond the basics. The competent use of motivational interviewing also requires you to be highly skilled in the use of complex reflections. You will concentrate on the processes of focusing, evoking and planning.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Day 1: 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

  1. Recognize, explain and demonstrate the spirit and skills practitioners use in Motivational Interviewing (MI).
  2. Recognize and apply different strategies for finding a focus.
  3. Recognize client language cues and MI-appropriate responses for moving clients toward change.
  4. Utilize open-ended questions, affirmations, reflections and summaries (OARS) to shape the direction of the session.
  5. Discuss the Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity Scale (MITI 3.1.1) and its use (and limitations) in improving the style of MI.

Day 2: 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

  1. Continue to demonstrate the spirit and skills practitioners use in MI.
  2. Use a modified MITI to rate classroom practice samples.
  3. Continue to practice evoking and amplifying change talk.
  4. Describe client cues for planning readiness.
  5. Discuss MI-adherent planning.
  6. Prepare to rate one's own practice for fidelity to the principles of motivational interviewing and develop a plan for continuing to learn.

Related campus initiatives

Student success Wellness Greater La Crosse community

When

Past occurrences (1)

  • Thursday, April 11, 2019

Where

3110 Student Union

UWL campus map for building location and nearby parking lots.

University of Wisconsin-La Crosse 3110 Student Union

Contact

For questions about this event or to request disability accommodations , contact UWL Continuing Education at 608.785.6500 or conted@uwlax.edu.

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