Motivational Interviewing: Evidence-Based Interventions to Improve Client Engagement and Accelerate Behavioral Change – Christopher C. Wagner

Motivational Interviewing: Evidence-Based Interventions to Improve Client Engagement and Accelerate Behavioral Change – Christopher C. Wagner

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Are you frustrated with having the same client sessions over and over? Perhaps you’re watching your clients struggle with addiction, anxiety, or other mental health challenges, and your attempts to empower them to make positive changes in their lives feel like going into battle. You feel like you’re working harder than your client, and you feel like they resist everything.

You can make a significant, positive impact on your clients’ lives with Motivational Interviewing.

Motivational interviewing (MI) has emerged over the past three decades as a leading approach for addressing a core clinical concern – motivation. When mastered, this evidence-based approach is highly effective in motivating positive change.

Better still, motivational interviewing can be used regardless of diagnosis and in conjunction with other treatment approaches.

Chris Wagner, Ph.D., motivational interviewing trainer and author, will teach you the skills you need to know to successfully help these clients. You’ll learn how the MI process works, how to help your clients resolve ambivalence about change, and how to effectively respond to resistance in clients. You’ll leave this seminar confident and with the strategies you need to treat your clients with depression, anxiety disorders, addictive behaviors and other clinical issues.

Escape the pattern of struggling with clients, and instead evoke your clients’ own motivation to change!

Outline:

Motivational Puzzles: Why People Don’t Do What’s Best for Themselves

Redefine motivation as an interactive state
Utilize three components of change
Desire for and fear of change in therapy
Ambivalence across the stages of change
How ambivalence becomes resistance
The spirit of MI
Core MI Processes to Cultivate Change

Engaging: The Relational Foundation
Partnership – the core relationship
“Dancing” vs. “wrestling”
Avoid the “expert” role
Foster client autonomy
The core skills of MI
Focusing: The Strategic Decision
Match your agenda to the client’s goals & priorities
Help clients develop a direction for change
Guiding vs. directing or following
Help clients find freedom
How to prioritize multiple presenting issues & concerns
Evoking: Preparation for Change
The key ingredient of MI
Preparatory vs. mobilizing change talk
Elicit importance, confidence & readiness for change
Acceptance & empathy as tools for eliciting change talk
Help clients align values and behavior
Aid clients in leveraging strengths
Build momentum toward change
Planning: Commitment to Change
How and when to plan
Information exchange to aid in plan development
The “Dos” and “Don’ts” of giving advice
MI Tools for Anxiety: Inspire Clients to Engage in Previously Avoided Behaviors

MI strategies to strengthen collaboration
How to challenge “the way I’ve always done it” thinking
Interventions to break familiar, anxiety-inducing patterns
Combine MI with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
MI & Depression: Boost Your Clients’ Resilience, Self-Worth & Self-Efficacy

Overcoming ambivalence in depression
Friends & family: Help clients learn to filter well-intentioned advice
Accept, acknowledge, empathize
Help clients reframe therapeutic tasks
MI & crisis intervention
Substance Use and Addictive Behaviors: MI Strategies to Catalyze Change and Reach Recovery Goals

What makes life worth living?
Avoid pushback: Emphasizing choice
Substance use
Other addictive/compulsive behaviors
Using MI in conjunction with the 12 steps
Research Limitations and Potential Risks

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