C4 Innovations

Community & Behavioral Health | Recovery | Social Change

MICA Pond

Coding & Coaching: Using the Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity and Motivational Interviewing Competency Assessment Evaluation Tools

Online Course: Winter 2021

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

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 2,000 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.

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"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

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Training Certificates

Certificates of Completion are awarded to participants who have attended all five, live webcasts (or watched the webcast recordings in their entirety), completed all required learning activities, scored higher than 80% on each weekly quiz, and completed the course evaluation form and the certificate request form. Six (6) hours of continuing education credit will be awarded upon completion of this course through ASWB, NAADAC, and NBCC. Certificates will be emailed directly to participants roughly two weeks after completion of the final webcast.

Accommodations

If you need accommodations for disability, please contact Rachel Ehly.

Grievances

If you would like to report a complaint, please email Ken Kraybill or Rachel Ehly.

C4 Innovations, Provider #1457, is approved as a provider for social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB, www.aswb.org) through the Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. C4 Innovations maintains responsibility for the program. ASWB Approval Period: 10/17/2020-10/17/2023. Social workers should contact their regulatory board to determine course approval. Social workers participating in this course will receive 10 continuing education clock hours.

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:

  1. Assign codes to utterances within a motivational conversation
  2. Assign technical and relational global scores to a conversation
  3. Identify micro-skills in a conversation
  4. Rate strategies and intentions within a conversation
  5. Form coaching feedback shaped by coding evaluations
  6. Identify ways to integrate coding and coaching into communities of practice

Course Facts

Dates: Fridays, January 22-February 19, 2021

Time: 12-1:15 pm ET

Subject: Motivational Interviewing, Coding and Coaching

Practice level: Intermediate, Advanced

CE credit:

  • ASWB: 6 hours
  • NAADAC: 6 hours
  • NBCC: 6 hours

Course type: Live, online 75-minute weekly webcast

Weekly Agenda

Week 1: Overview of the MITI and MICA

Week 2: Apply both the MITI and MICA to two MI-consistent motivational conversations

Week 3: Apply both the MITI and MICA to two challenging motivational conversations

Week 4: Form feedback using both the MITI and MICA

Week 5: Co-facilitate a community of practice centered on coding and coaching

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