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Overcoming Roadblocks in Treatment - full-day workshop

“Motivational Interviewing is simple, but it’s not easy.”
Bill Miller.
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Are you keen to use the MI skills you’ve learnt, yet find yourself either waiting for a good time to start, or feeling clumsy and unskilled in the effort of making changes to your clinical style? It may be tempting to give up, to leave this sort of thing to the people who “know how to do it”.
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THIS WORKSHOP WILL HELP!
Participants in the Introductory sessions (April-June 2016) commented:
"Excellent course! Very practical."
"Great to have a workshop that shows how to use MI in a busy practice."
"Enjoyable, Monica is very enthusiastic and provides great tips."
There is extensive research showing that workshop training alone is not sufficient to integrate Motivational Interviewing skills into routine clinical practice (1,2,3,4).

 

How will you benefit from this training?

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  • An opportunity to work on your own cases, and learn from peers.

  • Improved clinical efficacy.

  • Improved work satisfaction as MI helps to reduce resistance and conflicts in clinical practice.

Who will benefit from this training?

  • Clinicians who have had some training in Motivational Interviewing.

  • This workshop is suitable for all clinicians working in a health care setting (medical practitioners, psychologists, allied health clinicians).

Group size is limited, to allow for discussion and demonstrations.

MORNING SESSION: (9am-12:30pm)

  • Engaging patients in discussions about their health.

  • Collaborating on goals.

  • Working with ambivalence, hope and confidence.

  • Developing a plan and supporting change.

 

 

 

For details of upcoming workshops, please refer to the Motivational Interviewing page.

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AFTERNOON SESSION: (1:30pm-5pm)

  • Are we dancing or wrestling? Dealing with discord and patients who are 'stuck'.

  • The power of open questions, reflections, affirmations and summaries.

  • Improving time management and clinician efficacy.

References:

(1) Lawn S., Battersby M., Lindner H., Mathews R., Morris S., Wells L., Litt J., Reed R. (2009) What skills do primary health care professionals need to provide effective self-management support? Seeking consumer perspectives. Australian Journal of Primary Health 15, 37–44.

(2)Miller, William R. and Mount, Kathy A. (2001). A small study of training in Motivational Interviewing: Does one workshop change clinician and client behaviour? Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 29, pp 457-471.

(3)Miller, William R.; Yahne, Carolina E.; Moyers, Theresa B.; Martinez, James; Pirritano, Matthew. (2004)

A Randomized Trial of Methods to Help Clinicians Learn Motivational Interviewing. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Vol 72(6), pp 1050-1062.

(4)Mitcheson, Luke et al. (2009) Randomized trial of training and supervision in Motivational Interviewing with adolescent drug treatment practitioners. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, Vol 37, Issue 1, pp 73-78

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