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Motivational Interviewing II: Rapid Engagement for Effective, Collaborative Change
Encouraging behavior change can be one of the most challenging and frustrating aspects of working with people in your environment. Motivational Interviewing (MI) offers the opportunity to communicate clearly, cultivate the desire for change and create personalized treatment plans that lead to results.
This course will teach specific MI clinical skills but is more than a toolkit. You will learn a grounded approach that, by focusing on Change Talk, stimulates rapid engagement, builds strong therapeutic relationships and promotes a sense of true collaboration. You will go home knowing how to free stuck people to imagine a new way of doing things, identify their next steps and effectively work toward beneficial outcomes.
Objectives:
- Gain confidence creating rapid engagement in brief interventions
- Learn 5 ways to harness the incredible power of reflections
- Explore ways to both identify and create Change Talk
- Generate client-centered goals by using The Why and Scaling Questions
- Practice with peers to respond in real time to real-world situations
Trainer:
Lisabeth Gutierrez Bennett, NBC-HWC, NCTTP, NCNTT, Training Director, CODAC Behavioral Healthcare
Beth administers CODAC’s Motivational Interviewing training initiatives and oversees programs related to tobacco and nicotine treatment. She is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT), developing and facilitating training tailored to a wide variety of medical, behavioral health and social service agencies nationwide. Her boots-on-the-ground experience translates into impactful, practical training programs that help participants increase their competence and confidence when helping others.
With a clinical background in health coaching, she holds the National Board Certification in Health and Wellness Coaching, National Certificate in Tobacco Treatment Practice and National Certification in Nicotine and Tobacco Treatment. Beth is a trainer for the internationally accredited Tobacco Treatment Specialist (TTS) certification and co-author of the University of Massachusetts Medical School TTS training curriculum. Before joining CODAC, Beth developed MI training for a team of 14,000 registered dieticians, exercise physiologists and registered nurses.
