Self-Paced Motivational Interviewing Training:
Motivational Interviewing, and how to use it effectively
On-demand / self-paced learning
18 hours CPD
$430 CAD per person
Written and narrated by Dr William Davies
The Association for Psychological Therapies (APT) is a leading provider of Motivational Interviewing (MI) training training and our APT-Accredited Motivational Interviewing, and how to use it effectively ap.
This provides an opportunity to obtain APT-quality input at a time that is convenient to you and your colleagues, and minimises the need for 'cover' normally associated with training.
The benefits of 'online anytime' training:
- 3 years access to the course.
- Start and access the course at anytime, whenever is best for you.
- Equivalent to 18 hours CPD (Continuing Professional Development).
- An APT Accredited course.
- Exercises that help you assimilate the material and relate it to your own work.
- Narration that adds observations and depth to the material, by Dr William Davies (founder and Head of Applied Clinical Psychology at the APT) .
- Video.
- An inbuilt exam to test your knowledge and give you APT Accreditation in Motivational Interviewing, Level 2. (The exam is multiple-choice and if you don’t pass first time, you have 3 attempts to complete it.)
- Access to associated resources, which you can use on the course and download subsequently for use in your own practice. Available for the duration of your accreditation, renewable after 3 years.
- Completion guarantee for managers: if a course isn't completed you can transfer the place to another person (valid for up to 3 years from the date the training was assigned).
- A downloadable certificate when you pass the exam, stating your level of accreditation and CPD hours.
- Live training for individuals and whole teams also available.
Executive Summary:
Motivational Interviewing describes an organized way of helping people to recognise their problems and to do something about them. Principally it addresses behavior about which the client has mixed feelings: drinking and substance misuse for example, but a surprising array of common mental and physical health problems as well. Issues from taking psychoactive medication through to eating more healthily can all be addressed using motivational interviewing.
This course is based on the latest edition of Miller and Rollnick's book so covers the four broad components of skill, namely: Knowledge and Spirit, Engaging, Focusing and Evoking, and Planning and Integration. In addition it looks at the relationship between Motivational Interviewing and The Stages of Change (the work of DiClemente et al). And finally it covers how to develop your Motivational Interviewing skills and practise after the course.
Who should attend?
People who attend this course normally fall into one of two categories:
1. Professionals who see patients in 1:1 treatment settings, have a significant degree of clinical skill, and wish to become proficient in motivational interviewing.
2. 'Whole teams' (either in inpatient or community settings) seeking to develop a unified level of proficiency in motivational interviewing.
The professional affiliations of people attending this course include: mental health/psychiatric nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, and others working in a variety of settings including: Substance Misuse, Forensic, Adult Mental Health, and Children & Adolescents.
Course Subjects:
- Definition and description of Motivational Interviewing.
- The underlying spirit of motivational interviewing.
- Reflective Listening and the client centred OARS skills.
- Identifying the goals the client wants to move towards.
- Exchanging information and providing advice.
- Generating change talk (where the client talks about changing) and responding to it in a way that develops and encourages it.
- Traps to avoid in early stages of therapy.
- Responding to sustain talk (where the client talks about sustaining the way they are right now) in a way that doesn't encourage it.
- Developing hope and confidence.
- Timing, and negotiating a plan of change.
- Strengthening commitment.
- Integrating motivational interviewing with other clinical approaches.
- The link between motivational interviewing (Miller and Rollnick) and the stages of change model (Prochaska et al).
- Developing your motivational interviewing skill and practise after the course.
What this course will do for you. You will...
- Properly know about and be able to use Motivational Interviewing.
- Know that a person's ambivalence about changing is a natural thing that we can work with effectively.
- Be able to generate motivation in people who are not motivated.
- Be able to help people form constructive plans, and have downloadable resources to assist you with this.
- Be able to boost people's faith in their own ability to succeed.
- Know how to respond constructively when a person is 'resistant' – and know what to examine in your own practice when this is the case.
- Know how to give advice, and be able to do that skilfully.
Feedback Ratings.
We continuously monitor the quality of our training by obtaining feedback on the two key scales of relevance and presentation from every course delegate. Below are the average ratings for the last ten runnings of this course, which are updated periodically.
Face-to-Face
Presentation: 98%
Relevance: 96%
Online Live
Presentation: 95%
Relevance: 97%
Reviews.
APT prides itself on the feedback we receive about our courses. Below are just some of the great comments our Motivational Interviewing courses have received.
"Brilliant. Approachable, clear, kept me motivated for 3 days (an impossibility!). Best course I've been on in 18 years on the job."
"I feel that this has been the best training course I have been on so far in my professional career in terms of its relevance to my current practice and enhancement of my existing skills."
