Using the Motivational Interviewing Competency Assessment (MICA)
Online Course
This fast-paced, interactive course will introduce participants to the Motivational Interviewing Competency Assessment (MICA) and provide multiple practice opportunities to evaluate conversations along five Motivational Interviewing (MI) intentions, two MI strategies, and two utterance categories. Participants will learn how to use the MICA for coaching purposes to help MI practitioners facilitate effective motivational conversations. Participants will engage in learning through webcasts, written materials, audio recordings, exercises, and practice opportunities.
The MICA was developed to assess competence in MI and provide a quality improvement process for practitioners to cultivate their use of MI intentions and strategies. The MICA allows coders, coaches and/or practitioners to form easily digestible, structured, specific feedback along the dimensions of the MI intentions and MI strategies. Unlike other coding tools, the language of the MICA is more directed to helping practitioners cultivate and express their MI intentions and is not as "utterance-focused." Instead, the MICA focuses on helping practitioners convey MI intentions and skills conversationally.
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 Motivational Interviewing workshops for health care practitioners, behavioral health clinicians, psychologists, psychiatrists, and criminal/juvenile justice professionals, and provides training for trainers in evidence-based practices. She provide 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 the certificate request form
7.5 hours of continuing education credits will be awarded upon completion of this course through NAADAC, 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 MICA 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 identifying 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
If you are registering 5 or more people from one organization, please email us for a special discount.
Scholarships
Full and partial scholarships are available--email us for more info.
Accommodations
If you need accommodations for disability, please contact Marsha Kubyshko.
Grievances
If you would like to report a complaint, please email Rachel Ehly.
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: 10/17/2020-10/17/2023. Social workers completing this course receive 7.5 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 course, participants will be able to:
- Offer feedback to share MI skill development
- Evaluate conversations along seven different MI dimensions
- Identify specific MI skills in conversations
Course Facts
Dates: TBD (email us if you are interested in this training)
Practice level: Advanced
Cost: $375 (unless a basic or advanced subscriber)
CE credit:
- ASWB: 7.5 hours
- NAADAC: 7.5 hours
- NBCC: 7.5 hours
"I am reflecting on my MI skills in a more helpful way as I am quickly coding myself after consultations." --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." --Coding course participant
"[The coding course instructors] are so knowledgeable and supportive, always seeing strengths and increasing confidence to keep trying." --Coding course participant
"The trainers were excellent and modeled MI spirit and skills in their training style and responses to trainees." --Coding course participant
“Ali is a wonderful presenter. She listens to her audience and demonstrates the spirit of MI throughout her lessons.” --Coding course participant
Learn More
- 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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