Coding & Coaching: Using the Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity and Motivational Interviewing Competency Assessment Evaluation Tools
Online Course
Ready to take your Motivational Interviewing (MI) skills to the next level? Want to learn to evaluate motivational conversations and frame effective coaching feedback? Looking to integrate high yield observation and coaching into your communities of practice?
This fast-paced and highly interactive virtual course will introduce you to applying both the Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity (MITI) and Motivational Interviewing Competency Assessment (MICA) coding and coaching instruments to support your own and others’ MI skill development. The MITI helps identify utterances or behaviors inside the conversation, and the MICA focuses more on conversation flow. For evaluating your own and others’ conversations, as well as forming feedback, this course will help you use both instruments—and allow you to compare their relative usefulness for different needs.
Meet the Instructor
Ali Hall, JD, is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) and an independent consultant and trainer. Ali serves on the MINT Board of Directors, focusing on professional skill development for MI practitioners and trainers. She served as a Lead Trainer for the International MINT Training for New Trainers in New Orleans (2018) and Berlin (2015) and is serving as Lead Trainer in Warsaw 2019. Ali has designed and facilitated more than 2,500 MI workshops for health care practitioners, health coaches, child welfare professionals, social services providers, behavioral health clinicians, social workers, psychologists, and psychiatrists. She provides MI coding training, coding services, and skill development coaching as well as training for trainers in evidence-based practices. She also provides consultation to systems for establishing communities of practice and effective, sustainable MI implementation. Ali is the co-developer of the MICA.
Training Certificates
Participants may earn a Certificate of Course Completion* by:
- Attending all five, live webcasts (or watching the entire recording of each live session)
- Completing all required learning activities
- Scoring 80% or higher on each weekly quiz
- Scoring 80% agreement on results of final assignment
- Completing the course evaluation form and certificate request form
6 hours of continuing education credits will be awarded upon completion of this course through NAADAC. 6 hours of continuing education credits will be awarded upon completion of this course through NBCC and ASWB. Certificates will be emailed directly to requesting participants roughly two weeks after the successful completion of the final assignment.
*Please note that a certificate of completion is not a certification of proficiency in MI or MITI coding and coaching, and is not intended by C4 or the instructors to be represented as such. Currently, neither the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) nor its members/contracting organizations can confer a certification of MI practitioner or coder competence or proficiency.
It is strongly recommended that you obtain additional resources following this course, including cultivating involvement in a skilled coding community, and identify a thoughtful protocol for establishing sustainable coding consistency prior to coding and coaching for the purposes of research and/or providing clinical supervision and coaching in the MI or MITI models.
Group Registration
Accommodations
If you need accommodations for disability, please contact Marsha Kubyshko.
Grievances
If you would like to report a complaint, please email Rachel Ehly.
*In order to fully complete this course and receive a continuing education certificate from one of the following boards, you must pass each of the five weekly quizzes with an 80% or higher (you will have unlimited retests) along with the final evaluation. The required post-test questions will be at the end of each week's section and the required evaluation will be provided at the completion of the course. Upon successful completion of this course, you can request a certificate using the certificate request form posted with the evaluation and on your learning page. C4 Innovations will then review your course completion and email you a certificate within 2-3 weeks in PDF format. If you are social worker, you will need to write in your license number in the certificate request form for us to be able to include it in your certificate.
C4 Innovations, Provider #1457, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. C4 Innovations maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 10/17/2020 to 10/17/2023. Social workers completing this course receive 6 continuing education credits.
C4 Innovations has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP No. 6576). Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. C4 Innovations is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
This course has been approved by C4 Innovations, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits (NAADAC Provider #100990). C4 Innovations is responsible for all aspects of their programming.
Who Should Take This Course
- Those who
- Have completed a recent introductory or advancing skills workshop in MI
- Want to improve their MI skills
- Want to help others improve their MI skills
- Are looking to strengthen an eventual application to the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT)
- Quality improvement and auditing professionals
- Supervisors
- Key Leaders or Managers implementing MI
- Community of Practice leaders and members
Learning Objectives
As a result of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Label codes to utterances within a motivational conversation
- Label technical and relational global scores to a conversation
- Identify micro-skills in a conversation
- Rate strategies and intentions within a conversation
- Develop coaching feedback shaped by coding evaluations
- Identify ways to integrate coding and coaching into communities of practice
Course Facts
Dates and Time: TBD; email us to be notified when the course opens for registration
Practice level: Intermediate, advanced
Cost: $375 (unless a basic or advanced subscriber)
CE credit:
- ASWB: 6 hours
- NAADAC: 6 hours
- NBCC: 6 hours
"I am reflecting on my MI skills in a more helpful way as I am quickly coding myself after consultations." -Winter 2020 coding course participant
"Learning about coding has helped strengthen my overall MI skills and caused me to think more deeply about how MI works. It's been very valuable learning." -Winter 2019 coding course participant
"[The coding course instructors] are so knowledgeable and supportive, always seeing strengths and increasing confidence to keep trying." -Winter 2020 coding course participant
"The trainers were excellent and modeled MI spirit and skills in their training style and responses to trainees." -Winter 2019 coding course participant
Learn More
- Motivational Interviewing: Facilitating Change—introductory live, online course starting February 24, 2023
- Motivational Interviewing: Advancing Skills—live, online course starting April 7, 2023
- Building Knowledge in Motivational Interviewing—self-paced course
- Introduction to the Motivational Interviewing Competency Assessment (MICA)—self-paced course
- Motivational Interviewing Coding Lab
- Motivational Interviewing: Talking with People about Change—webinar recording hosted by Ken Kraybill
- Motivational Interviewing—podcast series
- Changing the Conversation: An Interactive Tool to Build Motivational Interviewing Skills
- Motivational Interviewing at C4 Innovations
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