Introductory Motivational Interviewing
We have worked very hard to make our online Motivational Interviewing course informative, relevant, interactive, interesting, and fun. This is a cloud-based course which can be accessed at any time from the comfort of your home or office or anywhere that you have an internet connection. The learning process is varied across several modalities, to maximize your opportunity to familiarize yourself with Motivational Interviewing and how it can be practically applied in your practice.
This is a self-directed online course.
During this online course, you will learn:
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The fundamentals of Motivational Interviewing
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The core OARS strategies of the Motivational Interviewing process
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Ways to identify and elicit change talk
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Strategies for exploring and resolving ambivalence.
The four weekly sections open sequentially on the 1st, 8th, 15th, and 22nd of the month and each consists of five steps:
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You'll first watch a prepared online presentation
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Read a selection of relevant assigned articles
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Watch a video of Motivational Interviewing in action featuring Stephen Andrew LCSW, LADC, CCS
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Take a quiz with questions to review the material you've learned
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Finally join an online discussion forum where you can answer posted question and read and respond with your classmate
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“Very thorough, well organized, engaging, and professional. The course materials and videos were very helpful. Thank you for offering such a wonderful course!”
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"I really liked the way it was arranged from one assignment to the next and liked how the materials varied from videos, reading, etc."
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“It was a good course -- and I am fairly critical individual! I appreciate that you gave us access to a lot of study material on MI from which we had reading assignments. That was a really value added aspect.”
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"I have a much better concept of it than I got from reading a book. Seeing the interview process after reading information was very useful."
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“I thought the course was well done and I will recommend my colleagues take the course.”
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"I found the video demonstrations especially helpful. Seeing Stephen Andrew apply MI techniques with a client really made the material come alive."
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“I liked the fact that there were different learning formats. It helped me learn the material and reinforced learning.”