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 individuals 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 patients who are poorly engaged in care with a range of mental health conditions.

Appropriate for masters-level clinicians, this program will cover the roots, principles, and core concepts of motivational i...Read morenterviewing with an emphasis on clinical intervention and application in mental health and substance use treatment. Participants will gain an understanding of how to utilize motivational interviewing, an evidence-based counseling approach, to complement other clinical interventions. Through didactic lectures, large group discussion, case vignettes, and experiential learning participants will gain skills to 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 clinicians

Friday, September 13, 2024

Rogers Behavioral Health in Oconomowoc - Ladish Co. Foundation Center
34700 Valley Road, Oconomowoc, WI, 53066

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

Addiction Services Clinical Operations Supervisor
Page Feller is a Clinical Operations Supervisor who oversees Mental Health and Addiction Recovery PHP and IOP clinical services at numerous Rogers clinics across the country. In her role, Page provides clinical and operational supervision, training, and support to ensure high-quality patient care. She also provides expertise on the development and implementation of trauma-informed care practices to clinical care and operations.

James Hishmeh, DSW, LCSW, CSAC, ICS, NCSE, CRPS

Director of Addiction Services
James (Jim) Hishmeh is a Director of Addiction Services at Rogers Behavioral Health. His responsibilities include leading the multidisciplinary treatment teams at the inpatient, residential, and supportive living facilities that treat people with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. Jim also collaborates on clinical protocol and training development for the Mental Health and Addiction Recovery services. Dr. Hishmeh serves on the Substance Use Advisory Committee of Waukesha County and tri-chairs an action team as part of the Heroin Task Force for Waukesha.

Agenda

8 am Registration

8:25 am Welcome and speaker introduction

8:30 am The foundation of MI

  • MI roots and working definition
  • Principles and spirit of MI
  • Using measures to support treatment

9:30 am Break

9:45 am The four processes of MI – Part 1: Engaging and focusing

  • Promoting engagement and avoiding traps
  • Processes of communication, active listening, and empathy
  • Open-ended questions, affirmations, reflective listening, and summarizing
  • Styles of focusing; focusing scenarios and interventions

10:45 am Break

11 am The four processes of MI – Part 2: Evoking and planning

  • Stages of change and addressing ambivalence
  • Evoking and exploring change talk
  • Preparatory change talk
  • Mobilizing change talk

12 pm Lunch break – box lunch provided with an assortment of bottled waters and sodas

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 Break

1:45 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

2:45 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.

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.