Engaging Families in the Change Process: An Introduction to Motivational Interviewing with Families (Part 1)
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an empirically-supported counseling style that helps people resolve ambivalence about behavior changes. Originating in the substance use treatment field, it has since expanded to most areas of health care in situations where people show ambivalence with treatment recommendations.
The theoretical model for MI specifies that professionals should elicit and reinforce clients’ own reasons for change (“change talk”) rather than telling people why they should change. Using reflective listening, open questioning, and summarization, professionals can increase clients’ in-session level of change talk, which has been found to predict clients’ behavior change at follow-up.
Until recently, there has been limited work applying Motivational Interviewing to family-centered care. This webinar will introduce core concepts of using MI with family members.
Virtual
Mountain Plains ATTC
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