Motivational Interviewing: Working with Clients in Conflict

Course overview

Participants will be able to describe the elements of Motivational Interviewing and how to integrate MI with other counseling approaches, will be able to name situations and attitudes that can lead to conflict and difficult interactions with clients, will be able to define strategies and counseling techniques to move past conflict and promote recovery for their clients, will be able to describe Motivational Interviewing skills and techniques to move clients from early-treatment stress to later stage readiness to change, will be able to describe how to encourage clients to change by evolving their intrinsic motivation for change, and will be able to describe how to prevent client conflict and promote client participation in treatment.