Motivational interviewing in mental health and substance use treatment

Over the past four decades, motivational interviewing (MI) has developed a robust evidence base as a counseling technique to help people with substance use disorders facilitate behavioral change. Because MI emphasizes the partnership between the patient and the provider as a foundation of behavior change, there is a growing body of research showing MI to have the potential to assist all patients who are poorly engaged in care.

Appropriate for masters-level clinicians, this program will provide professionals with an understanding of the roots, principles, and core concepts of motivational inte...Read morerviewing, emphasizing clinical intervention and application in mental health and substance use treatment. Participants will gain insights into utilizing motivational interviewing, an evidence-based counseling approach, to complement other clinical interventions. Through didactic lectures, group discussion, and experiential learning activities, participants will be able to recognize and effectively respond to a wide range of presenting symptoms and needs utilizing MI-consistent interventions to remain strengths-based, culturally responsive, and inclusive. Less...

Learning Objectives

  • Summarize the working definition and principles of motivational interviewing (MI).
  • Apply the concepts of engaging and focusing as an MI intervention.
  • Apply the concepts of evoking and planning as an MI intervention.
  • Demonstrate effective use of person-centered core interviewing skills.
  • Recognize how the application of key MI concepts can be applied in a manner which responds to each patient’s individual strengths, needs, and goals.
  • Demonstrate application of MI skills to mental health and substance use treatment.

Learning Levels

  • Masters Level

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Al Larson Center for the Arts
201 Schaumburg Ct., Schaumburg, IL, 60193

08:00 AM CDT - 04:30 PM CDT

EARN 6.5 CE Credit Hours
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About the speakers

Page Feller, MA, NCSE, ICS, LPC, MAC, CSAC

Page Feller, MA, NCSE, ICS, LPC, MAC, CSAC

Clinical Operations Supervisor
Page Feller is the clinical operations supervisor of the Mental Health and Addiction Recovery services at Rogers’ Hinsdale, Madison, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, and Skokie locations as well as Wisconsin clinics offering telehealth services. In this role, Page ensures staff have the supervision, training, and clinical support to provide high-quality patient care. She offers expertise in the development and implementation of trauma-informed care practices for clinical care, milieu and behavioral management, and co-occurring treatment operations.

Laura John, MSW, LICSW, LADC, LCSW, ICS, CSAC

Senior Director of Addiction Services
As Senior Director of Addiction Services at Rogers Behavioral Health, Laura John oversees Mental Health and Addiction Recovery treatment team members across the system who work at the partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient levels of care. She joined Rogers in 2017, and before her promotion to her current position, Laura served as a therapist, clinical supervisor, addiction services leader, and director of addiction services. Laura coordinates staff development for the service line, including serving as an instructor for the newly accredited Mental Health and Addiction Recovery Academy that Rogers has developed in partnership with Carroll University.

Agenda

8 am Registration and continental breakfast with bottled water, juice, and coffee available

8:25 am Welcome and speaker introduction
8:30 am The foundation of MI
  • MI roots and working definition
  • Principles and spirit of MI
9:30 am 5-minute stretch break

9:35 am The four processes of MI – Part 1: Engaging and focusing
  • Promoting engagement and avoiding traps
  • Processes of communication, active listening, and empathy
  • Elaborating, affirmations, reflective listening, and summarizing
  • Styles of focusing; focusing scenarios and interventions
10:35 am 10-minute break

10:45 am The four processes of MI – Part 2: Evoking and planning
  • Stages of change and addressing ambivalence
  • Preparatory change talk
  • Mobilizing change talk
11:45 am 45-minute lunch break – box lunch provided (options listed on registration form)

12:30 pm Utilizing core interviewing skills in practice
  • Evoking and exploring change talk
  • Responding to sustain and change talk and exploring ambivalence
  • Counseling with neutrality, maintaining integrity, developing discrepancy, and establishing a change plan
1:30 pm 5-minute stretch break

1:35 pm Review of key concepts and application of MI in treatment
  • Autonomy, integrity, and cultural humility
  • Evaluating and responding to patient strengths, needs, and goals
  • Tools, strategies, and resources to aid in application
2:35 pm 10-minute break

2:45 pm Small group practice
  • Rotate roles as therapist, patient, and observer
4:15 pm Closure
  • Questions and answers
  • Instructions for completing evaluation and receiving CE certificate

CE Information - Earn 6.5 CE Credit Hours

CE Approvals

Association of Social Work Boards
Rogers Behavioral Health, provider number 1101, 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. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory board have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Rogers Behavioral Health maintains responsibility for this course. Approval period: October 18, 2023 – October 18, 2026. Social workers completing this course receive 6.5 clinical continuing education credits.
National Board for Certified Counselors
Rogers Behavioral Health has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6192. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Rogers Behavioral Health is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. 6.5 instructional clock hours will be awarded.
Other Professionals
Rogers Behavioral Health will issue a certificate of attendance for your participation in this activity.
National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors
This course has been approved by Rogers Memorial Hospital, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #268546, Rogers Memorial Hospital, is responsible for all aspects of their programming.

CE Process Info

Each professional is responsible for the individual requirements as stipulated by his/her licensing agency. Please contact your individual licensing board/regulatory agency to review continuing education requirements for licensure renewal.

Participants must be in attendance for the entire program to be eligible to receive CE credit. Participants who complete the seminar will receive an email from support@ce-go.com with a link to their personal dashboard, where they may complete the evaluation form and download their CE certificate. 

Disclosure

The presenters have each declared that they do not, nor does their family have, any financial relationship in any amount occurring in the last 12 months with a commercial interest whose products or services are discussed in the presentation. The presenters have each declared that they do not have any relevant non-financial relationships. Additionally, all planners involved do not have any financial relationships. Further, Rogers Behavioral Health does not accept commercial support for its CE programs.