An Introduction to Motivational Interviewing

Event Date:

Thursday 19 June 2008

 

Friday 20 June 2008

Start Time:

9.30am

End Time:

4.30pm

Location:

Millennium Centre- 400 Springfield Road- Belfast

Cost:

£150 Vol/Community £175 Statutory

Event Type:

Event

The workshop will be of particular interest to those assisting people who wish to change their diet, exercise routine, smoking, medication adherence, criminal behaviour or any other life style behaviour.

The course will help you to:

• Understand the principles of motivational interviewing
• Reflect on your current consulting style
• Assist people to assess their own readiness to change and make appropriate decisions
• about their behaviour
• Recognise and work with people ambivalent about change
• Use reflective listening skills to elicit change-talk
• Recognise and roll with client resistance
• Gain experience, through demonstration and practice, in this evocative counselling style and how it contrasts with methods of overt persuasion
• Understand the process and psychology of change
• Use MI in brief contacts