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About this course

  • $10.00
  • 6 lessons
  • 0 hours of video content

Modality

In Person & Virtual Options Available

IN PERSON:

Participants interested in joining us in person will meet us at our physical location:

100 Tri County Parkway, Springdale, Ohio 45246

To reserve your in-person seat, please email us at [email protected] after registration

VIRTUALLY:

This is a live, interactive, training that will also be presented through Zoom as an online Webinar. The link to the program will be available on the course webpage after registration. Zoom recommends having a broadband wired/wireless connection, speakers, and a microphone to effectively participate via this platform. (requirements listed on zoom’s website here: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362023-Zoom-system-requirements-Windows-macOS-Linux).

Program Summary:

Engaging resistant adolescent clients can be a difficult task for therapists to achieve. Motivational Interviewing is a client-centered approach that leverages a warm interpersonal style to reduce resistance and ambivalence.

Learning Objectives:

  • Participants will gain an ability to identify clinical resistance with Adolescents.

  • Participants will learn to apply Motivational Interviewing strategies with adolescent clients.

  • Participants will be able to explain Motivational Interviewing strategies.

  • Participants will learn to integrate Motivational Interviewing strategies avoid clinical push and pull around change and to better engage adolescent clients.

Audience & Skill Level

Introductory

This course is designed for mental health service providers (social workers, counselors, marriage and family therapists, etc.) who seek to use teletherapy to serve their clients. No prior coursework or experience in this area is necessary to benefit from the material.

Course Outline & Agenda

  • 1:00-1:30     Introduction to Motivational Interviewing, Common Struggles seen in Practice (Traps) and Components of Change.  Starting where your client is. 
  • 1:30-2:00     Stages of Change, The Spirit of Motivational Interviewing, Guiding Principles 
  • 2:00-2:30     Aligning with the adolescent. Not becoming the “expert”. 
  • 2:30-3:00     O.A.R.S. Video Demonstration 
  • 3:00-3:15     Break 
  • 3:15-3:40     Resistance, Rolling with Resistance.  Irreverence can be key. 
  • 3:40-4:15     Sustain Talk, Change Talk, Commitment Talk, eliciting change talk 
  • 4:15     Q&A, Evaluations 

To receive course credit, participants must complete the following:

  • Attend the Entire Program

  • Complete the Course Evaluation

  • Certificates will be available through the course webpage on Thinkific once all requirements are met

Instructor

Gregory Pratt

MSW, LISW-S (OH), LCSW (CO)

Gregory Pratt, MSW, LISW-S, LCSW, has worked in the Mental Health Field in the Greater Cincinnati area for over fifteen years. He graduated from Thomas More College with a BA in Psychology and from the University of Kentucky with a Master’s Degree in Social Work (MSW). He has worked with individuals and families struggling with a wide range of concerns and specific needs, including individuals with both mental health and substance use struggles. Gregory’s clinical approach is a combination of Client Centered and Strength Based approaches utilizing Motivational Interviewing and Cognitive Behavioral techniques. Gregory has experience with Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and is working on certification in Radically Open DBT.

Program Approvals

Ohio CSWMFT Approval 

This training is approved for counselor, social work, and marriage and family therapy continuing education. In addition, it is approved by the Ohio Chemical Dependency Board for chemical dependency continuing education. Check CE Broker for detailed breakdown of CE types (provider number 50-24074). 


ASWB ACE Approval 

Mindfully (ACEP provider #1862), is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 6/27/2023 – 6/27/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 3 clinical continuing education credits. 


NBCC ACEP Approval

Mindfully Academy has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7322. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Mindfully Academy is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

For more information

Individuals with comments/questions/concerns can contact Mindfully Academy via the information provided below:

[email protected] 

513-939-0300

Charles Potter (Program Coordinator) [email protected] 


  • Grievance policy: If you are dissatisfied with your experience, please feel free to share this with us via email: [email protected] or via telephone: 513-939-0300, or via your program evaluation.  All complaints will receive a response within seven business days outlining actions taken and proposed responses which may include issuing a refund, credits for future trainings, updating course content or taking appropriate action with presenters, among others. 
  • Request for Accommodations: Should any accommodations enhance your program experience, please contact us via email: [email protected] or via telephone: 513-939-0300, to explore what options you may have. 

References

  

Multidimensional Family Therapy for Adolescent Drug Abuse: Clinician’s Manual. Howard A. Liddle (2009). Center City, MN: Hazelden Publishing Co. 

Lindsay, E., Mechen, C., (2018). Improving wellbeing and quality of life using motivational interviewing. Wounds UK (WOUNDS UK), 2018; 14(5): 138-141. (4p) 

  

Miller W.R. & Rollnick S. (2013). Motivational Interviewing, Third Edition: Helping People Change.  

New York:  Guilford Press. 

  

Miller, W. R. & Rollnick, S (2002). Motivational Interviewing: Preparing people for change (2nd Ed.). 

New York: Guilford Press 

  

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Rollnick, S., Mason, P., &Butler, C. (1999). Health behavior change: A guide for practitioners.  

New York: Churchill Livingstone 

  

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. (2023). Key substance use and mental health indicators in the United States: Results from the 2022 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (HHS Publication No. PEP23-07-01-006, NSDUH Series H-58). Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. https://www.samhsa.gov/data/report/2022-nsduh-annual-national-repor  

  

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. (2023). Results from the 2022 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: A companion infographic (SAMHSA Publication No. PEP23-07-01-007). Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. https://www.samhsa.gov/data/report/2022-nsduh-infographic 

Tiburcio, N.J., Baker, S.L., & Kimmell, K.S. (2021). Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Co-Morbidities Among Teens in Treatment: SASSI-A3 Correlations in Screening Scores. Psychology and Behavioral Sciences. 10(1), 10-17.  

  

TIP 35: Enhancing Motivation for Change in Substance Use Disorder Treatment (2019) 

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