Motivational Interviewing:Preparing People to Change (Addictive) Behavior
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The vast majority of clients who come into treatment are ambivalent about change and specifically about the price of change. Understandably, clients often want the maximum benefit with the minimum emotional cost. Managed care expects clinicians to demonstrate that our interventions meet the goals of efficiency and efficacy. In order to successfully juggle these competing demands, clinicians need to take into account both the nature of ambivalence and the dynamics of ambivalence in treatment planning. Failure to do so results in a loss of efficiency and efficacy that you cannot afford in this day of limited benefits.
Motivational Interviewing is a technology of treatment developed within the addictions field which is gaining widespread attention because of its applicability to any client who is ambivalent about change. This two-day practice-oriented workshop will focus on the theoretical framework and the skills that will help you apply the model with a very practical et of interventions. Participants will learn to assess accurately the exact nature of the client's motivation for change, how to match the intervention to six stages-of-readiness for change and how to manage the client's ambivalence about change with elegance and prevision. Based on the work of psychologists William Miller, Stephen Rollnick, Carlo DiClemente, and James Prochaska.
Workshop Goals
As a result of this workshop, participants will:
- Be provided with an empirically-validated model for the process of change
- Learn to assess the client's motivation for change within the first interview
- Be able to define the six stages of readiness-for-change and determine the client's stage-of-readiness for change within the first interview
- Learn to manage the client's ambivalence about change
- Learn to deal proactively with resistance by anticipating it before it happens
- Learn to integrate resistance about change into the treatment plan
- Learn to minimize resistance and maximize motivation within the interview process
- Learn to tailor the intervention to the client's stage of readiness-for-change.
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