Motivational Interviewing Skills

Description

This course is designed for practitioners who work with clients struggling with substance use and are seeking to enhance their skills in Motivational Interviewing (MI). Drawing on foundational work by experts William R. Miller and Stephen Rollnick, the course offers two progressive training modules:

1. Introduction to Motivational Interviewing: This initial module provides a comprehensive overview of Motivational Interviewing, focusing on equipping participants with the foundational skills needed to engage with clients who are ambivalent about change. The training aims to build basic MI skills, laying the groundwork for more effective communication and fostering readiness for sustainable recovery.

2. Advanced Motivational Interviewing Skills: Building upon the introductory module, this advanced session focuses on deepening MI skills and enhancing practical application. Participants will further develop their techniques, with a focus on more complex interactions and strategies to support clients in overcoming ambivalence and moving towards lasting behavioral change.

The content in this course is drawn from Modules 3 & 4 of the Addictions Certificate Program. Course developed 1/2025.

Both modules emphasize practical skill-building and real-world application to enable practitioners to better guide substance-involved clients through their recovery journey. This course is excerpted from Modules 3 & 4 of the Addictions Certificate Program.

Objectives

1. Describe the four phases of working with clients in the motivational interviewing framework.
2. Identify the 5 strategic skills of motivational interviewing and describe how they are useful in working with ambivalent clients.
3. Describe how the spirit of motivational interviewing is different from some traditional addictions treatment approaches.
4. Distinguish between simple and complex forms of reflective listening.
5. Describe ten techniques for evoking change talk.
6. Distinguish between four types of preparatory change talk and three types of mobilizing change talk.

Agenda

• Module 1: Introduction to Motivational Interviewing
• Module 2: Advanced Motivational Interviewing Skills

Instructor

Stephen Wiland, LMSW, ICADC, CSS

CE Approval Statement

The University of Michigan School of Social Work, provider #1212, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. The University of Michigan School of Social Work maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 5/15/2023-5/15/2026. Social workers participating in this course will receive 6 general continuing education contact hours.

Continuing Education Offered

6 hours regular asynchronous online